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UPS Green Fleet To Expand With 200 Hybrid Electrics

UPS today announced it has ordered 200 hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) - the largest commercial order of such trucks by any company - in addition to another 300 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles for its U.S. delivery fleet.

14 May 2008

Study Says Chinese Air Quality Standards Not Yet Met

Wen-Xing's assessment of the quality of ambient air in Beijing has just been published online in Springer's journal, Air Quality, Atmosphere + Health. Since the 1980s, the rapid industrial development, urbanization and increase in traffic have resulted in severe air pollution in Beijing.

13 May 2008

Improving Quality of Life of Soldiers and Families Through Environmental Planning

Fort Hood is improving the quality of life of Soldiers and families living on the installation through environmental planning.

10 May 2008

Market for Waste Water and Drinking Water in Asian Will Reach $117.3 Billion US in 2015

Several Asian countries like China, Japan, India, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam increased their Investments in drinking water, waste water and water treatment in the last 24 month dramatically.

9 May 2008

Sustainably Designed Golf Courses as Way to Spread Message to Decision Makers

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), a conservation group that has worked to protect and restore the Bay since 1967, has chosen sustainably designed golf courses as one way to spread its message to decision makers.

9 May 2008

EPA Awarded Grant to Manitowoc Public School District to Cut Diesel Emissions from School Buses

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded a $37,271 grant to the Manitowoc Public School District in Manitowoc, Wis., for a project to cut diesel emissions from the district's school buses.

8 May 2008

Asia's Most Important Freshwater Source Under Threat

The Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging as an issue in the increasingly tense political and cultural strife between China and Tibet, scientists and experts say, according to a new report by Circle of Blue published today.

8 May 2008

CES Selected to Supply CO2 to a Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project

Clean Energy Systems' (CES) zero emissions power plant technology has been selected to supply carbon dioxide to a large-scale carbon capture and storage project under the leadership of the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB).

8 May 2008

95 Percent of American Mothers Believe Household Cleaning Products can be Toxic

Home may be where the heart is, but these days it's also where the toxins are. According to The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American home generates over 20 pounds of household hazardous waste every year. Cumulatively it's a whopping 1.6 million tons -- that's 3.2 billion pounds -- of household hazardous waste per year, of which 176,000 tons is just from cleaning products.

8 May 2008

Scrubber Makes Dramatic Reductions in Emissions of Sulfur Dioxide and Mercury

Dominion today dedicated a new pollution-control system at its Chesterfield Power Station that will help continue Virginia's move toward cleaner air. The equipment, called a "scrubber," removes more than 95 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions and more than 90 percent of mercury emissions from the company's largest coal- fired generating unit.

7 May 2008