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Klean Industries to Collaborate with Dow to Provide Solutions for End-of-Life Mixed Plastics

Klean Industries Inc. ("Klean") a Canadian Energy Solutions Company announces its intent to collaborate with The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") to recover energy, chemicals and oil from end-of-life waste plastics that would otherwise be sent to landfill.

4 Jan 2013

The Children's Center Supports Sustainability by Going Green for 2013 AutoGlow

The Children's Center supports sustainability by going green for the 2013 AutoGlow, Vive Detroit.

4 Jan 2013

Berkeley Lab Researchers Find New Way to Explore Permafrost Soils

What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It’s part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world’s soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere.

4 Jan 2013

Penn State Researchers Look for Ways to Prolong Battery Life for Locomotive

Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States.

4 Jan 2013

Covanta Energy's Clean World Initiative Enters Fifth Year

Covanta Energy Corporation, a world leader in sustainable waste management and renewable energy, is proud to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Clean World Initiative (CWI).

4 Jan 2013

Ameresco Executes Energy Performance Contract with Fall River Housing Authority

Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today the execution of an energy performance contract with the Fall River Housing Authority (FRHA).

4 Jan 2013

SunPower’s 579 MW Antelope Valley Solar Projects Acquired by MidAmerican Solar

Today, MidAmerican Solar, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Renewables, and SunPower Corp. announced MidAmerican Solar's acquisition from SunPower of the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located projects in Kern and Los Angeles Counties in Calif. Together, the two combined projects will form the largest permitted solar photovoltaic power development in the world and will create an estimated 650 jobs during construction.

3 Jan 2013

Algal Fuel Producers Now Eligible for Tax Credit

As part of the bi-partisan "Fiscal Cliff" legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on January 1, 2013, algae-derived fuels are, for the first time ever, a "qualified feedstock" under section 40 of the United States Code meaning that producers of algal fuel are eligible for a $1.01 per gallon tax credit.

3 Jan 2013

Arista Power, GCEDC Partner to Launch New Community Solar Purchasing Initiative

Arista Power, Inc. ("Arista Power" or the "Company"), a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of custom-designed power management systems, renewable energy storage systems, and a supplier and designer of solar energy systems, announced today that the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) has partnered with Arista Power to launch a new community solar purchasing initiative, called "Solarize Genesee."

3 Jan 2013

Study Determines Natural Equilibrium Sea Level for CO2 Concentrations

By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels.

3 Jan 2013

Global Jellyfish Populations Undergo Concurrent Fluctuations

Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish.

3 Jan 2013

Study Examines Probability of Preventing Rise of Average Global Temperatures

The new study, published today in the journal Nature, examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from rising more than 2°C above preindustrial levels under varying levels of climate policy stringency, and thus mitigation costs. In addition, the study for the first time quantified and ranked the uncertainties associated with efforts to mitigate climate change, including questions about the climate itself, uncertainties related to future technologies and energy demand, and political uncertainties as to when action will be taken.

3 Jan 2013

New Energy Consumption Models May Help Internet and Telecommunications Reduce Carbon Footprint

Amid growing concern over the surprisingly large amount of greenhouse gas produced by the Internet and other telecommunications activities, researchers are reporting new models of emissions and energy consumption that could help reduce their carbon footprint. Their report appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.

3 Jan 2013

Birds Moving to High Latitude, High Elevation Regions Due to Climate Change

A recent study used bird watching records to build up the first bird watching database in China, which found a batch of new records of national level and a trend of of species moving to higher latitude and higher elevation regions.

2 Jan 2013

Canada’s Minister of Environment Proposes Amendment to Renewable Fuels Regulations

The Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment, today announced his intention to propose an amendment to the Renewable Fuels Regulations that would see a permanent national exemption from the 2% renewable content requirement in home heating oil, as well as a 6-month extension to the exemption from the 2% renewable content requirement for diesel fuel for Canada's Maritime Provinces.

2 Jan 2013