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Wind Power Project Helps Meet Renewable Energy Goals

Avista has acquired the rights to develop a 50-megawatt (MW) wind farm near Reardan, Wash. taking an important step in implementing the company's 2007 Electric Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The plan identified the acquisition of 300 MW of wind by 2017.

9 May 2008

Lighting Company Announces Environmentally-Friendly Initiative

Bentley Meeker and his highly skilled design team are considered among the top special event lighting experts in the world.

8 May 2008

Siemens Energy Awarded Largest Wind Turbine Orders

Siemens Energy has been awarded one of its largest wind turbine orders ever. FPL Energy has ordered 218 Siemens wind turbines to be installed at several wind farms across the U.S. for delivery in 2009. The Florida-based energy provider is the largest operator of wind farms in the United States with 56 projects in 16 states currently in operation.

8 May 2008

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

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

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

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

Computer Analyses of global climate Consistently Overstated Warming in Antarctica

Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University.

7 May 2008

Tests Confirm International ProStar Saves Customers $5,800 in Fuel Annually Over Leading Competitor

Record diesel prices are driving on-highway trucking customers to look for every edge to curb fuel costs, beginning with their choice of truck. Navistar today released definitive results of extensive testing confirming that the International® ProStar(TM) is the most aerodynamic and fuel-efficient Class 8 truck on the road.

7 May 2008

Farmland Dust Cloud From the Ukraine Detected in Germany for the First Time

Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed.

6 May 2008