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Saving Energy While Reducing Carbon Emissions

eps corp, a national provider of energy and carbon emissions solutions that help businesses address environmental and financial risks of climate change, announces the achievement of its milestone goal to implement 25 megawatts of Demand Response for industrial customers in California.

18 Apr 2008

Environmentally Sustainable Options for Recycling or Refurbishing Old Computers

During the April 19 event in St. Charles, Missouri, Blancco and EPC hope to draw attention to the over 50 million computers that become obsolete each year and the fact that there are secure, environmentally sustainable options for destroying sensitive data and recycling or refurbishing old equipment.

18 Apr 2008

Illinois Biodiesel Refinery Begins Commissioning of First Train

Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc., a refiner and marketer of ASTM quality biodiesel, announced today its progress at commissioning and completing two biodiesel refineries. Commissioning of the first train of its 60 million gallon per year biodiesel refinery in Seneca, Illinois began on March 31, 2008.

18 Apr 2008

Providing Readers an Extensive List of Chemicals to Avoid

Many common household cleaners on the market may clean your home, but they also contain carcinogenic chemicals that can cause a variety of health and environmental problems. Among the most dangerous chemicals in everyday household cleaners, glycol-containing ethers are perhaps the most prevalent.

18 Apr 2008

Calcification by Phytoplankton Could Double by the End of Century

Increased carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is causing microscopic ocean plants to produce greater amounts of calcium carbonate (chalk) - with potentially wide ranging implications for predicting the cycling of carbon in the oceans and climate modelling.

18 Apr 2008

Aerodynamic Shape for Truck Trailers Can Lead to Reduction in Fuel Consumption and Emissions

Creating an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%.

17 Apr 2008

Unintended Environmental and Social Consequences of Food-to-Fuel Mandates

Today, three top environmental experts addressed reporters, calling attention to the serious consequences of Congressional food-to-fuel mandates on the environment, world hunger, and American consumers. The experts also urged Congress to revisit these policies.

17 Apr 2008

Unique Way to Track Storm Intensities Across Seasons

Data from faint earth tremors caused by wind-driven ocean waves-often dismissed as "background noise" at seismographic stations around the world-suggest extreme ocean storms have become more frequent over the past three decades, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.

17 Apr 2008