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Programs Named as 2008 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards Winners

Five area environmental programs have been named as the winners of the 2008 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards, announced today by Dominion and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.

7 May 2008

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

America's First Platinum LEED CS High Rise Office Buildings

Westfield Development Company has begun construction of the Denver central business district's first major high-rise office building in more than two decades.

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

The Bright Side of Compact Fluorescent Light

Today, lighting accounts for nearly 20 percent of the average home's electric bill and Americans are quickly switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light, which uses up to 75 percent less energy, lasts up to ten times longer, and produces a savings of about $30 per bulb.

7 May 2008

Amazon Rainforest Coming Under Threat From Cleaner Air

The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature.

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

Wind Energy Installations at a Breakneck Pace

With the fate of a key federal incentive in the balance, the U.S. wind energy industry continued new installations at a breakneck pace in the first quarter of 2008, putting 1,400 megawatts (MW) or approximately $3 billion worth of new generating capacity in place, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today in its quarterly market report.

7 May 2008

Company's Plan to Build Barley-Based Ethanol and Protein-Feed Production Facilities

Osage Bio Energy has received a commitment of $300 million from First Reserve Corporation, the world's leading energy-focused private equity firm, to fund the construction of four next generation bio-refining facilities that will produce ethanol and a specialty protein feed.

7 May 2008

Strawberry Producers Searching for Safe Pesticides

Methyl bromide, an odorless, colorless gas used as an agricultural pesticide, was introduced in the 1980s as an effective way to control weeds and increase fruit yields. Agricultural production nurseries around the world relied on methyl bromide (MB) to produce healthy plants for export and domestic sales.

7 May 2008