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Goodyear Makes New Tire For a More Efficient Chevrolet Volt

With uncertainty around fluctuating fuel prices, Goodyear offers tire technology that helps provide drivers with an opportunity to save at the pump - or, in the case of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt - added driving efficiency even before they get to a gas pump

10 Feb 2009

Ingeo Biopolymer Now Environmentally Outperforms Every Major Petroleum Based Plastic

NatureWorks LLC has achieved a manufacturing breakthrough with its Ingeo plastics made from plants, not oil

10 Feb 2009

Solar Power Boost For Scotland as Solar Panels Can Now Be Installed Without Planning Permission

The majority of householders in Scotland will be able to install solar panels and other energy generating equipment without planning permission from now on, although government ministers have yet to decide whether to exempt wind turbines and air-source heat pumps

10 Feb 2009

Turn Raw Biomass into Biofuel In Two Steps

Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel

10 Feb 2009

Biofuel to Provide Viable, Sustainable Solution to Reducing Petroleum Dependence

An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030

10 Feb 2009

Learning About Climate Change From An Antarctic Worm That Makes Its Own Anti-Freeze

Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze

9 Feb 2009

Emissions Payments Could Make the Amazon Prosper

Global payments for ecological services rendered by the Amazon such as the carbon retaining in its forests could go a long way to preserving them, a new study has found

9 Feb 2009

Coal Dewatering Technology Turns Sludge to Powder

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20 percent, transforming it to a salable product

9 Feb 2009

EPA "Champion" Award Presented to Barricade Fire Gel

Barricade Fire Gel has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its environmentally friendly formula through the use of safer surfactants and for its efforts in documenting a strategy for ensuring that only safer surfactants are used

9 Feb 2009

CertainTeed Ceiling and Insulation Products Used In Comcast Center, United States' Tallest Green Office Building

Towering over the Philadelphia skyline at an amazing 58 stories (975 feet), the city's new Comcast Center is a high-performance sustainable building, with an abundance of features that will conserve energy and reduce impact on the environment

9 Feb 2009