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Scrubber Makes Dramatic Reductions in Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Mercury

Dominion today dedicated a new pollution-control system at its Chesterfield Power Station that will help continue Virginia's move toward cleaner air. The equipment, called a "scrubber," removes more than 95 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions and more than 90 percent of mercury emissions from the company's largest coal- fired generating unit.

7 May 2008

Global Sustainability Initiative will Reduce Corporation’s Carbon Footprint

Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced a global Sustainability Initiative - an ambitious effort aimed at reducing the company's environmental impacts and carbon footprint by 20 percent over five years.

7 May 2008

Converting Readily-Available Non-Food Biomass into Renewable Fuels

Terrabon, L.L.C. announced today that it has broken ground on a biofuels conversion facility in Bryan, Texas, that will test the scaled-up, commercial feasibility of its MixAlco(TM) technology, which converts readily-available, low-cost, non-food biomass into chemicals that can be processed into ethanol and renewable gasoline fuels.

7 May 2008

Water Conservation and Management are Massive Global Concerns

On May 13, 2008, the 5th World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world, will be presented during the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) in New York, with a special emphasis on its political dimension.

7 May 2008

Calgon Carbon to Supply Sentinel UV Disinfection Systems at Drinking Water Production Plants

Calgon Carbon Corporation announced today that it has been selected by the City of Montreal to supply Sentinel(R) UV Disinfection Systems at three of its drinking water production plants. The contract is valued at approximately $8.8-million CAD.

7 May 2008

Computer Analyses of global climate Consistently Overstated Warming in Antarctica

Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University.

7 May 2008

No-Tillage Farming Offers Plenty of Benefits Regarding Soil and Environmental Health

The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the surface layer (<20-cm soil depth), and not for the whole soil profile.

7 May 2008

Large Amounts of Seaweed in Coastal Areas Can Influence the Climate

Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate.

7 May 2008

Calvert Ranks Top Builders on Environmental and Sustainable Practices

Despite some encouraging environmental and energy-efficiency developments in recent years, none of America's 13 largest publicly traded homebuilders has "fully embraced the emerging market of sustainable building design and construction," according to a major new study by Calvert

6 May 2008

Exploring the Opportunities for Production of Cellulosic Biofuel

The Energy Biosciences Institute, the world's largest public/private consortium dedicated to the application of biosciences to the energy sector, has announced an initial set of 49 research projects for funding during the first year of EBI's 10-year program.

6 May 2008