According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), motor vehicles are responsible for nearly one half of smog-forming volatile organic compounds, more than half of the nitrogen oxide emissions, and about half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the United States.
Escalating defense budgets and spending on sophisticated, technologically advanced equipment is augmenting growth in the primary lithium batteries market worldwide. In particular, new battery chemistries developed for industrial, automotive and military applications make the battery market dynamic and vibrant.
BASF is supplying diesel particulate filters for over 2,500 Hong Kong transit buses, marking the first large-scale commercial use of diesel particulate filters in the city as part of a diesel retrofit program. It also demonstrates BASF Catalysts' continued efforts to promote a cleaner environment in Hong Kong with its more than 7 million inhabitants.
Park Farm, the HQ for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his River Cottage team, is currently undergoing something of a revamp.
Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists speaking today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic.
With the booming residences in South of Market and the developing environmental consumer movement and a steadily upward trend in service sector jobs, San Franciscans Todd Gean and Jason Yeafoli recently launched the immediately successful non-toxic house cleaning business called Maid Green that services San Francisco.
Pax World Management Corp., investment adviser to Pax World Funds ("Pax"), which launched the nation's first socially responsible mutual fund in 1971, today announced that it has launched three new mutual funds: Pax World Global Green Fund, Pax World Small Cap Fund, and Pax World International Fund.
Fuel cells and hydrogen fuel are the only motor vehicle technology option that will respond effectively to global warming during this century, according to a new analysis by a Washington expert in alternative fuels.
Zero Motorcycles today announced the Zero X, a no-compromise electric motorcycle that has race winning performance without the obnoxious noise and pollution of regular gas motorcycles.
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