To help local governments play a role in combating climate change, the commonwealth is making $300,000 available through a new grant program so municipalities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve energy, and lower operating expenses.
The Boeing Company today released its 2008 Environment Report, detailing its performance, strategy and actions to reduce its environmental footprint and lead the aerospace industry with environmentally progressive products and services.
Emissions trading is seen by many governments and commentators as a major means of controlling global warming but it involves worrying assumptions on enforceability and potentially serious implications for development.
Carbon buried in the Earth could ultimately determine the fate of our planet's atmosphere. So concluded a pioneering meeting last week about the Earth's long-neglected "deep" carbon cycle.
Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research that will be published in the 21 May 2008 online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The Premier healthcare alliance today announced a climate and energy collaborative focused on reducing the healthcare industry's carbon footprint.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 19th presented its Climate Protection Award to MEGTEC Systems, owned by U.S.-based SEQUA Corp., in recognition of MEGTEC's patented technology that enables coal mine ventilation air methane (VAM) to be used as a primary energy-producing source.
Xerox Corporation today became the first technology company to be named a Performance Track Corporate Leader by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Xerox is one of only five companies named an EPA Corporate Leader.
Today Tioga Energy released a report that makes a case for solar energy as a cost saving hedge against future increases in electric utility rates. The report, titled "Hedging Against Utility Rate Fluctuations with a Solar PPA" details the rise in energy rates in California since 1970, and gauges the potential for rate increases in the years to come.
Up to now, the oceans have buffered climate change considerably by absorbing almost one third of the worldwide emitted carbon dioxide. The oceans represent a significant carbon sink, but the uptake of excess CO2 stemming from man's burning of fossil fuels comes at a high cost: ocean acidification.
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