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Barack Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of Energy

15 Dec 2008

Hydro Power Development Deal Formed Between Doheny Global Group and STUCKY Ltd

Doheny Global Group, a US based firm, and STUCKY Ltd, a Switzerland based firm, announce a partnership to develop hydro power facilities internationally

15 Dec 2008

Photovoltaics Company, Konarka, Signs Deal With Oil and Petroleum Company, Total

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power PlasticR, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has signed bilateral R and D and cooperation agreements with Total, one of the largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas companies in the world

15 Dec 2008

World Record Setting Earthrace Biodiesel Boat Starts Touring Australia

Over the last two years of promotions, the amazing Earthrace boat has had nearly 150,000 people walk through her, and she’s been seen on TV networks, and in Newspapers and Magazines around the globe. Now she's touring Australia

14 Dec 2008

CIGS Photovoltaics Webinar Announced

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm serving the thin-film photovoltaics industry, announced that it will be conducting a webinar titled, CIGS Photovoltaic Market Opportunities

14 Dec 2008

Paper People UPM Supporting Tree Planting

UPM is sending season’s greetings with a donation to ENO Environment Online, to help them achieve their challenging target of planting 100 million trees by 2017

14 Dec 2008

Test Results Show Earth Has Definitely Warmed Over the Past 30 Years

Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit in the past 30 years, while half of that - a full quarter of the globe - warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit

14 Dec 2008

Sustainable Polymers of the Future May Come from New Theory

Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving polymers in Europe

14 Dec 2008

Rules for Burning Emission Comparable Fuel for Industrial Energy Recovery

EPA has finalized the expansion to the Comparable Fuel Exclusion rule. The rule allows certain secondary material, called emission-comparable fuel (ECF), to be safely burned for energy recovery in industrial boilers

14 Dec 2008

Toilet Flushing Now Linked to Birth Defects in Wildlife

Scientists at the University of Idaho recently discovered that an active chemical in birth control pills commonly released into the environment through human urine causes cells in rainbow trout to have an abnormal number of chromosomes

14 Dec 2008

Soybean Aphids May be Controlled by a Biocontrol Option About to be Tested

A program supported by university researchers, farmers and soybean groups is introducing tiny parasitic insects to control soybean aphids in South Dakota and neighboring states. The hope is to better control the pest by introducing a natural predator

14 Dec 2008

Pesticide Residues Test Results Released

The Pesticide Residues Committee today published its second quarterly 2008 report

14 Dec 2008

ENERGY Star Approved House Plans Launched by Home Designers

The House Designers (THD) and ENERGY STAR have partnered to offer consumers an exclusive collection of Green House Plans

14 Dec 2008

Amazon to Take Fresh Look at Changing Product Packaging

Amazon.com has launched "Frustration-Free Packaging," a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages and to be more environmentally friendly by using less packaging material

14 Dec 2008