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Cash for Clunkers Program Bad for the Environment and Consumers

While the AAIA supports efforts by the Obama administration to help stabilize U.S. based vehicle manufacturers, the association cautions that the "Cash for Clunkers" proposal will harm the environment, negatively impact car owners, waste billions of dollars and hurt vehicle service and repair businesses

30 Mar 2009

American Iron and Steel Institute Work With Automakers to Meet New Emissions Requirements Announced by the Department of Transportation

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) said today that it is actively supporting automakers as they work to produce more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles that can meet the Department of Transportation's (DOT) new requirements

30 Mar 2009

Detroit Electric and Proton Team Up To Make Affordable and Practical Pure Electric Cars

Detroit Electric to produce and market full line of innovative Pure Electric vehicles in US, UK, EU and China beginning 2010

30 Mar 2009

Hayden Panettiere Seeks 1 Million Petition Signatures to End Commercial Whaling

Whaleman Foundation spokesperson and real life Hero, Hayden Panettiere, travels down under to Sydney, Australia to oppose any whaling deals and call for 1 million signatures on her petition at SocialVibe.com

30 Mar 2009

Water Conservation Restrictions Voluntarily Introduced in California

Utility urging consumers to conserve and take advantage of conservation programs and rebates

30 Mar 2009

Australian Meat Ants Make a Natural Meal Out of Cane Toad Meanace

Ecologists in Australia have discovered that cane toads are far more susceptible to being killed and eaten by meat ants than native frogs

30 Mar 2009

USGBC Environmental Award Presented for FBI Building in Chicago

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Regional Facility, located in Chicago, Illinois, officially received a Platinum-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EBOM) award from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)

30 Mar 2009

Linde Group to Supply Gases for Next-Gen Thin Film Photovoltaic Production for Masdar in Germany

The Linde Group has been awarded a long-term contract to supply all the gases for next-generation thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module production at Masdar's manufacturing site in Erfurt, Germany

30 Mar 2009

Strategies for Designing Energy Efficient, High Performance Buildings to be Taught to Architects and Builders by Aloca

Alcoa announced today that an upcoming webinar co-sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Alcoa's Kawneer architectural aluminum products business will provide architects and building contractors with insights and strategies for designing high performance buildings using energy efficient architectural solutions

30 Mar 2009

Air Mobility Command Using Aircraft Engine Wash System That Is Better for Both the Plane and the Environment

Air Mobility Command bases are using a new aircraft engine wash system that's not only better for the plane, but also it is better for the environment

30 Mar 2009

US Proposes Cutting Emissions From Ships Along American Coastlines

The United States took a critical step towards protecting Americans from harmful ship emissions by becoming the first country to ask the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions control area (ECA) around the nation’s coastline

30 Mar 2009

Several Factors Converge to Put Solar Cell Market at a Crossroads

Several factors have converged over the past several months that will impact the solar cell market

30 Mar 2009

Department of Energy Award Goes to Construction Projects at Brookhaven Lab

Two large construction projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the U.S. ATLAS Detector Project and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), have been named winners of the DOE Secretary's Award for Achievement

30 Mar 2009

Climate Entrepreneurs Will Be The Driving Force Behind a Low Carbon Future

WWF urges delegates at the ongoing UN climate talks in Bonn to find ways to support a new class of climate entrepreneurs as the main drivers for a future low carbon economy

30 Mar 2009

Nitrates in Small Streams Stimulate Greenhouse Gas Production

A study conducted at the University of Notre Dame revealed that nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, is frequently produced in the sediments of small streams and that production rates were best explained by stream water nitrate concentrations.

30 Mar 2009