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EV Project Offers Free Blink Chargers to Commercial Sites in Three Cities

August 6, 2012August 5, 2012 by Leon Walker

Clean electric transportation and storage technologies provider ECOtality said that it will offer its Blink smart charging stations free to commercial host sites and residents of Chicago, Atlanta and the greater Philadelphia area, as part of its expansion of The EV Project, a public-private research initiative with the Department of ... 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 »

DOE Guide to Help Hospitals Achieve 50% Energy Savings

May 4, 2012May 7, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LED surgery lights, HVAC systems and improved facility design, among other technologies, can cut large hospitals’ energy costs in half, according to a Department of Energy Guide. The Advanced Energy Design Guide for Large Hospitals, the fourth and final publication in the AEDG series, is designed to help 100,0000-square feet ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar Tariffs

March 26, 2012June 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

Energy analysts say that the risk of the aviation sector exiting the EU cap-and-trade scheme is being priced into the market, and the impact could affect carbon prices by 2 euros or more. The carbon market is already oversupplied with hundreds of millions of permits and hindered by lower demand. ... Read more »

Honeywell Wins State Department ESPCs

December 27, 2011 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Department of State has awarded Honeywell an energy savings performance contract for a project at two of its facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The project will implement energy efficiency and water conservation measures at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington, D.C., which serves as the ... Read more »

Ameresco, DoE Announce Completion of Cogeneration Facility

December 23, 2011December 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued energy service company Ameresco final acceptance for the completion of the Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility in Aiken, S.C., constructed under the nation’s largest energy savings performance contract worth $795 million. Under ESPCs, new energy efficient equipment is installed at no up-front ... Read more »

DOE Cuts Scope 1 and 2 GHGs 13% in Two Years

November 23, 2011November 23, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Department of Energy reduced its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent from its FY 2008 baseline of 4.6 million mTCO2e, to 4 mT in FY 2010, putting it on course to beat its target of a 28 percent reduction by 2020, according to the DOE’s ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED

November 22, 2011November 22, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The U.S. Mint announced that its West Point, N.Y., facility has been accepted in the Energy Department’s Superior Energy Performance program, just one of the steps the bureau said it is taking to “‘green’ the production of America’s coins, Reuters reported. The Superior Energy Performance project is a certification program ... Read more »

Greenhouse Emissions Jumped 6% in 2010

November 7, 2011November 8, 2011 by Leon Walker

Greenhouse gas emissions saw a 6 percent jump in 2010, their largest one-year rise, according to new data from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab. This means that emissions are now rising faster than the worst-case scenarios envisioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: New House Bills, EU Airline Lawsuit, Mountaintop Removal

October 7, 2011June 5, 2013 by Environmental Leader

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to block the EPA’s proposed rule to reduce emissions from large cement manufacturing plants, The New York Times reported. The bill passed 262-161, with 25 Democrats and all but two Republicans voting in favor. Later on Thursday, the House also voted for ... Read more »

Solar Costs Drop 11% in First Half of 2011

September 16, 2011September 16, 2011 by Leon Walker

The average cost of going solar in the U.S. fell dramatically in 2010 and through the first half of 2011, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an annual report on solar photovoltaic costs in ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Double Counting Biofuels, Regulatory Timeout, Stricter Offshore Standards

September 14, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The Obama administration has told a federal court that it has no objection to reopening lawsuits brought by both industry and environmental groups challenging national air quality standards for ground-level ozone set by the Bush administration in 2008, the New York Times reported. The EPA under President Obama had spent ... Read more »

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