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Congress to Get Demonstration of 100 mpg Hummer Extended-Range Electric Vehicle

Raser Technologies, a leading energy technology company, announced today that its 100 mpg Electric Hummer H3 will be demonstrated at the United States Capitol tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at 2 p.m. EDT. Members of Congress are invited test drive the vehicle

20 May 2009

Environmentally Friendly Construction a Legal Minefield Says Environmental Attorney

A certain inconvenient truth about the trend toward green building -- that it will neither fade like a bad dream nor match the utopian visions of its most ardent advocates -- is good news for both the state of New Jersey and the United States, according to veteran environmental attorney

19 May 2009

Prince Charles Checks on Progress of Sustainable 'Natural House'

Prince Charles paid a visit to the BRE Innovation Park in Watford today to check the progress of the Natural House, an alternative approach to sustainable home building which is being constructed by educational charity the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

19 May 2009

World's Largest Protected Marine Park One Step Closer As Coral Sea Becomes a Conservation Zone

What may become the world's largest marine protected area came a step closer today following the announcement by Australia’s environment minister Peter Garrett that the Coral Sea would become a Conservation Zone

19 May 2009

Orange Leading the Sustainable Telecoms Market

Orange, through Orange Business Services –- its division for enterprise customers, leads the sustainable telecoms market, according to a ground-breaking report published today

19 May 2009

Clues To Future Global Climate May Lay in Arctic River Deltas

Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information - sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville and Mackenzie rivers

19 May 2009

Global Warming Can Produce Local Cooling

Global warming may include some periods of local cooling, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Results from satellite and ground-based sensor data show that sweltering summers can, paradoxically, lead to the temporary formation of a cooling haze in the southeastern United States

19 May 2009

Obama and Schwarzenegger To Announce Rigorous Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards For Passenger Cars and Truck

President Barack Obama and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce an historic blueprint to carry out rigorous greenhouse gas emission standards for passenger cars and trucks while giving the nation's automakers the certainty of cohesive regulatory standards

19 May 2009

World's Highest Output Lithium Ion Battery Developed

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. which develops and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, such as hybrid electric vehicles, have developed a lithium-ion battery having the world's highest power density

19 May 2009

CEMEX Teams Up With World Business Council for Sustainable Development on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

CEMEX in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a group of leading companies in the building, equipment, and energy industries- announced the release of "Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, a new research report of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project

19 May 2009