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EPA Raid on Gold Mining Town Under Investigation

September 6, 2013September 6, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Small-scale miners in an remote Alaskan gold mining town were surprised by an environmental task force of federal regulators decked out in full body armor, who swarmed the area to check for clean water violations. The tactics of the federal regulators, who descended on Chicken, a town of 17 full-time ... Read more »

Liquid-Cooled Server Cuts Energy Consumption Up to 97 Percent

March 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A liquid-cooled computer server being tested at the University of Leeds could cuts energy consumption for cooling by between 80-97 percent, according to UK company Iceotope, which designed and built the server. While most computers use air to cool their electronics, all of the components in the Iceotope server (pictured) ... Read more »

Asetek Participates in DoD Program, Opens Data Center Cooling Demo

February 19, 2013February 19, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The Department of Defense has selected Asetek’s ISAC (Inside Server Air Conditioning) liquid-cooling product to participate in its Transformative Reductions in Operational Energy Consumption (TROPEC) program. TROPEC is a collaborative DoD and Department of Energy program that targets energy efficiency for critical applications at military forward operations such as data ... Read more »

DoD Data Centers to Use Asetek Liquid-Cooling

December 14, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Asetek has been selected to perform a $2 million project to retrofit a major Department of Defense data center with its direct-to-chip liquid-cooling technology. The product (pictured), called RackCDU (short for Rack Coolant Distribution Unit), brings liquid-cooling directly to the hottest elements inside every server in a data center, and ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Autumn Statement, China PM2.5, Toxic Train Wreck

December 7, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

UK Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement to parliament said that the UK will consider tax breaks for shale-gas exploration, as the ban on fracking is set to soon expire. The chancellor wants to give priority to gas because it’s cheaper than renewables and less harmful than coal. Osborne ... Read more »

Cleanup of US Groundwater Contamination Limited by Technology

November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

About 10 percent of the 126,000 contaminated groundwater sites in the United States are considered complex, with restoration unlikely in the next 50 to 100 years due to technological limitations, according to a National Research Council report. The report, “Alternatives for Managing the Nation’s Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites,” estimated the ... Read more »

Defense Sustainability Budgets to Rise 7.3%

October 19, 2012 by Leon Walker

Buyer sustainability management budgets in the defense industry are expected to rise by 7.3 percent over the next 12 months, compared to respondents’ previously expected increase of 7 percent in 2011 and 6.8 percent in 2010, according to a report by Strategic Defense Intelligence. Energy-efficient facilities and composite stack materials ... Read more »

Report: NASA, DOD, GSA Use Information Tech to Cut Energy Use

September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

NASA, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense and the Smithsonian Institution have all used information and communications technologies to reduce energy consumption and emissions while at the same time cutting costs and meeting sustainability mandates, according to a report released by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. ... Read more »

Contract Wins: IBM, Diageo and GE, Defense and Eneref, MeterSense

June 27, 2012 by Leon Walker

The city of South Bend, Indiana, is working with IBM to apply intelligence to its wastewater management system. The city anticipates that the installation of a management system for a combined sewer overflow system will result in savings of $120 million in infrastructure investments, while avoiding costly fines assessed for ... Read more »

Top Marks for EPA on 2011 Sustainability Scorecard

June 19, 2012June 21, 2012 by Leon Walker

The EPA met all of its sustainability and energy goals for 2011 and remains on track to meet all seven future goals on its Office of Management and Budget sustainability scorecard, amid mixed results from other major federal departments and agencies. The scorecard measures the sustainability of federal departments and ... Read more »

Defense Department Targets 3GW of Renewables by 2025

April 12, 2012April 12, 2012 by Leon Walker

The Department of Defense has pledged to deploy 3 GW of renewable power – including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal – by 2025, in what the White House called one of the largest commitments to clean energy in history. The renewable resources will appear on Army, Navy, and Air Force ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: House DOE Cuts, Ozone Fallout, China Air Standards

September 23, 2011June 5, 2013 by Environmental Leader

A day after Democrats and group of Tea Party Republicans in the House of Representatives scuttled a spending bill, the chamber won enough conservative votes and passed a measure with an added $100 million in cuts to an Energy Department loan guarantee program that has been assailed by Republicans, The ... Read more »

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