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Clean Energy Initiates Property Purchase for LNG Fuel Terminal in Jacksonville

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. today announced that it has placed a purchase contract on property where it hopes to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel terminal in Jacksonville, Fla. This would be the first LNG facility on the Eastern seaboard to specifically supply LNG for the maritime, heavy-duty trucking and rail industries.

From Clean Energy Fuels 31 Oct 2013

New Energy Efficiency Certification for Industrial Refrigeration Operators from NEEA and RETA

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) and the Refrigerating Engineers & Technicians Association (RETA) recently partnered to develop a new energy efficiency certification for industrial refrigeration operators across the Northwest and the US.

31 Oct 2013

Ceram and CICS Announce Free Breakfast Forum on Carbon Reporting, November 29th 2013

Ceram, the international materials technology company and CICS, the international sustainability assurance provider, will be holding a free breakfast forum ‘The Benefits of Carbon Reporting’ on Friday 29 November at their headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent.

30 Oct 2013

Abengoa to Develop Xina Solar One, 100MW Parabolic Trough Plant in South Africa

Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) of South Africa to develop Xina Solar One, a 100 MW parabolic trough plant with a five-hour thermal energy storage system using molten salts.

30 Oct 2013

Leonard Tender to Discuss Microbial Electrode Catalysts at AVS Symposium

Most of us wouldn’t consider bacteria a promising energy source of the future. That would be shortsighted, says Leonard Tender, a microbial-electrochemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who believes that the focus of his research – electrode reactions catalyzed by microorganisms – may one day provide cheap, clean and abundant energy by converting the carbon dioxide in seawater to fuel and the organic matter in wastewater into electrical power.

30 Oct 2013

Keiron Durant Wins Two National Awards for Alternative Fuel Research

Keiron Durant, an honors chemical engineering senior, has won two national awards for his research on alternative fuels.

30 Oct 2013

UCLA Report Explores Impact of Plastic Marine Litter and Offers Policy Recommendations

Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.

30 Oct 2013

Stanford Faculty Receive 11 Seed Grants for Early-Stage Energy Research

Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

30 Oct 2013

Premier's Subsidiary, Energy Efficiency Experts (E3) Expands its Powerful Lighting Solutions Platform

Premier Holding Corp. today announced that through an exclusive employment agreement it has added the resources, client lists, distributor agreements, and existing business relationships of AEON Green Energy Solutions through its subsidiary, Energy Efficiency Experts ("E3"). With these added resources, E3 continues to expand its Energy Efficient Lighting Solutions Platform.

30 Oct 2013

Entropex Receives Gold Award at Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Night

At the annual Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Thursday night, Entropex, a leading plastics recycler, received this year's Gold award for excellence in waste reduction.

30 Oct 2013

Renewable Energy Group Opens Biodiesel Refinery in Mason City

Renewable Energy Group® held a ribbon cutting ceremony to formally open their recently acquired biodiesel refinery in Mason City, Iowa and announced it has begun a $20 million project to upgrade the plant to a multi-feedstock facility.

29 Oct 2013

Global Bioenergies Reaches Main Milestone in License Option with Major US Industrial Group

Global Bioenergies announces today having reached the main milestone in a license option signed in 2010 with a Fortune 500 US-based industrialist.

29 Oct 2013

Major Biological Extinction 93.9 Million Years Ago Associated With Warm, Oxygen-Poor Ocean

Oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose dramatically about 600 million years ago, coinciding with the first proliferation of animal life. Since then, numerous short-lived biotic events — typically marked by significant climatic perturbations — took place when oxygen concentrations in the ocean dipped episodically.

29 Oct 2013

Mobile DNA Extraction Kit Helps Haiti Compost Human Waste

What does the coastal community of Bolinas, California have in common with the impoverished island nation of Haiti? The surprising answer is a fledgling sanitation strategy whereby human waste is composted into nutrient-rich fertilizer, all supported by research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Gary Andersen.

29 Oct 2013

Global Water Technologies to Participate at International Water Week

Global Water Technologies will present at International Water Week in Amsterdam on November 4-6 where 'Integrated water solutions for a green economy' will be the topic for an expected 25,000 water industry professionals.

29 Oct 2013