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Beijing Officials Move to Improve Air Quality Before Start of Olympic Games

With less than a month remaining before the Beijing Olympics, Chinese officials have introduced a series of measures to improve air quality for the Games

22 Jul 2008

Brookhaven Lab Scores Award for Electrocatalysis in Fuel Cells

Brookhaven lab chemist Radoslav Adzic receives the U.S. Department of Energy's hydrogen program R and D award

22 Jul 2008

Coates Claim to Have Developed the Most Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Ever Built

The CSRV Combustion Engine has the capabilities of running on many different types of alternative and renewable fuels, such as Compressed liquid hydrogen, ethanol, methanol, bio-diesel, propane, natural gas, butane, and any combustible engine fuel, including combinations and mixtures of these fuels

21 Jul 2008

Converting Cow Manure to Fuel Could Generate Substantial Amounts of Renewable Electricity

Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

21 Jul 2008

US EPA To Award Grants For Diesel Engine Emission Reducing Technologies

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to award approximately $3.4 million in grants to establish projects using emerging technologies to reduce emissions from the nation's existing fleet of diesel engines

21 Jul 2008

Canadian Headquarters for BMW to Be LEED Certified Green Building

BMW Group Canada to relocate its corporate headquarters to a custom built green facility built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, a Green Building Rating System, which is designed to conserve natural resources

21 Jul 2008

Green Vehicle Guide Shows Which Cars Pollute Less and Have the Best Fuel Economy

The Australian government has introduced an extremely popular online guide to the cleanest and greenest cars

21 Jul 2008

Environmentally Friendly Aluminium Buses to Hit the Road for Beijing Olympic Games

Two new environmentally-friendly bus prototypes will be displayed and road tested during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing next month

20 Jul 2008

Department of Energy to Fund Two Cellulosic Biorefinery Projects With The Goal of Competing With Corn Based Ethanol

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of two small-scale cellulosic biorefinery projects in Park Falls, Wis. and Jennings, La. for federal funding of up to $40 million over five years

16 Jul 2008

Award Given to Environmentally Friendly De-Icer for Airport Runways and Aeroplanes

A team of scientists from the Battelle Memorial Institute and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory won a regional award from the American Chemical Society for an environmentally friendly deicer

15 Jul 2008