Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it is among 60 corporations pilot testing a draft protocol for accounting and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across a product’s life cycle. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative is being launched by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
An Engineering Excellence Award presented to George Brown, Arturo Gomez-Rubio, Concetta LaMarca and Minye Liu honored their success in designing an innovative process to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The Borderland Plant in El Paso, Texas, had to achieve reductions of emissions.
The Siemens Industry Solutions Division received an order from ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH, a German flat-steel producer, to supply the electrical and automation equipment for the new secondary dedusting system in its LD steelworks. This will reduce the residual dust content of the offgas emitted to the environment to less than 10 mg/Nm3. The dedusting system is scheduled to be put into operation in the first quarter of 2011.
Linde North America, a member of The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company, has decades of experience in assisting a broad spectrum of chemicals and pharmaceutical manufacturers to improve product quality, production efficiencies and yield while reducing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.
Airmen at Fairchild Air Force Base opened an E85 pump for use by certain government vehicles Feb. 10 in an effort to cut emissions and reduce their carbon footprint.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed new pretreatment and curing methods that can be used with the sol-gel coating process. With the new pretreatment method, the adhesion of sol-gel coatings can be improved significantly. The method is based on the use of modified CO2 dry ice with particles. It is environmentally friendly and does not cause as much waste as traditional cleaning methods.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released action plans developed by 22 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer. The action plans are a response to EPA’s assessment reports on the structural integrity of these impoundments that the agency made public last September.
At times this winter, the greater Salt Lake City area has harbored the most polluted air in the United States. Now, researchers from the University of Utah and other institutions are starting a three-year, $1.3 million study to better understand the winter weather “inversion” conditions frequently associated with poor air quality.
Potential emissions from brominated flame retardant production and user plants in Europe were significantly reduced last year, thanks to a voluntary industry programme.
Westar Energy has agreed to spend approximately $500 million to significantly reduce harmful air pollution from a Kansas power plant and pay a $3 million civil penalty, under a settlement to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today. As part of the settlement, Westar will also spend $6 million on environmental mitigation projects.
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