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$2.7M Helps Small Businesses Bring Green Technology to Marketplace

November 14, 2014November 13, 2014 by Karen Henry

The EPA announced nine awards totaling $2.7 million that will help small businesses in eight states bring innovative green technologies to the marketplace. The following companies received 2014 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II funding: HJ Science & Technology in Berkeley, California, designed and built a field-deployable, portable instrument capable ... Read more »

TVA Plans Significant Cut in Carbon Emissions

June 19, 2014January 20, 2016 by Ken Jennison

The Tennessee Valley Authority says by 2020 it will cut carbon emissions amounting to half of what they were at their peak in 1995, in response to proposed new guidelines released by the EPA. The Clean Power Plan, released by the EPA on June 2, would carbon emissions by 30 ... Read more »

Carbon Standards Benefit From Filibuster Ban

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Prospects for carbon standards for new and existing power plants are looking stronger after the Senate passed a ban on filibusters for federal judge and executive office appointments. That’s because President Obama’s three nominees for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (pictured) are now more likely ... Read more »

EPA Honors Coke, Microsoft, Whole Foods, 21 Other Companies in Green Power Leadership Awards

September 25, 2012April 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

Coca-Cola Refreshments, Microsoft, Whole Foods and Lockheed Martin were among the winners of the EPA’s 2012 Green Power Leadership Awards. The awards, made in conjunction with nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, are designed to recognize organizations, programs and individuals that significantly advance the development of green power sources. In total, ... Read more »

Auto Dealer Association Studies Energy Use, Aims for Energy Star Labels

June 22, 2012 by Leon Walker

The National Automobile Dealers Association has launched an online energy usage survey as part of a national effort to understand consumption trends, with an aim of developing an Energy Star performance scale for dealerships. NADA member dealerships will complete the automated survey, created in partnership with leading energy management systems ... Read more »

Daimler Trucks Compliant with 2014 GHG Regulations

February 27, 2012February 27, 2012 by Leon Walker

The EPA has certified Daimler Trucks North America’s complete 2013 portfolio of on-highway, vocational and medium duty vehicles as fully compliant with 2014 greenhouse gas regulations. DTNA’s GHG14 certification came a year ahead of the mandated compliance date for the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s first-ever program ... Read more »

Calgon Launches Products to Control Mercury Emissions

January 27, 2012 by Leon Walker

Calgon Carbon Corporation has launched an advanced line of its Fluepac products aimed at controlling mercury emissions in the coal-fired electric power generation market. The new line, which includes the Fluepac MC+ Ultra, Fluepac MC Maxx and Fluepac ST, can reduce carbon injection rates by 50 to 70 percent below ... Read more »

‘$1bn’ University Green Endowment Plan Launched

October 13, 2011October 13, 2011 by Leon Walker

Harvard and Stanford are among 32 universities that have committed $65 million to new energy efficiency financing initiative Billion Dollar Green Challenge. The fund aims to get colleges, universities and other nonprofits to invest a total of $1 billion in self-managed “green revolving funds.” Such funds are used to finance ... 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 »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: GOP Green Projects, Retrofit Tax Incentives, Kansas Sues

September 21, 2011September 21, 2011 by Environmental Leader

Some high-profile Republicans who have attacked President Obama over his failed efforts to stimulate clean energy jobs with federal support have nonetheless written the Energy Department to request federal funding for green projects, The New York Times reported. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (pictured left) made personal appeals for ... 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 »

Luminant to Sue EPA Over Cross-Border Pollution Rule

September 13, 2011September 13, 2011 by Leon Walker

Luminant – Texas’s largest power generator – has announced the shuttering of facilities across the state, and launched a legal challenge against the regulations it blames for the closures: the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. The rule, which the EPA released on July 7, requires Texas power generators to make ... Read more »

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