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Veolia Opens New Electronics Recycling Facility in West Bridgewater

A new Veolia electronics recycling facility that serves businesses and consumers in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states has opened in West Bridgewater, Mass., and features the latest state-of-the-art recycling of fluorescent lamps, ballast, batteries, computer electronics and mercury-bearing waste.

From Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions 23 Aug 2013

City Traffic and Residential Coal Combustion may be the Major Air Pollutants from China

Almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia — impacting human health and fostering global warming — comes from city traffic and other forms of fossil-fuel combustion, such as home cooking with coal briquettes.

23 Aug 2013

New Report Analyses Global Wind Power Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Wind Power - Global Market Size, Turbine Market Share, Installation Prices, Regulations and Investment Analysis to 2020

23 Aug 2013

New Technology Could Reduce Emission of Mercury by Power Plants into the Great Lakes Basin

A team of Wayne State University researchers are working on a technology that could quickly and significantly reduce the emission of mercury and other toxic substances by power plants into the Great Lakes basin.

23 Aug 2013

Delaware Electric Cooperative Reduces Carbon Footprint Using MOTECH Solar Panels

Delaware’s Motech Americas LLC, a subsidiary of Motech Industries, Inc., today announced that 16,000 of its U.S. manufactured solar panels are contributing to the annual elimination of 12,640,747 lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions at Delaware Electric Cooperative’s new Bruce A. Henry solar energy farm.

22 Aug 2013

Energy Policies to Boost North American Geothermal Heating and Cooling Market

Heating and cooling accounts for 40 percent to 50 percent of power consumption in non-residential buildings. This highlights the urgent need to increase the overall energy efficiency in these buildings – geothermal heating and cooling technologies may hold the key.

From Frost & Sullivan 22 Aug 2013

New Approach Needed to Increase Public Support for Global Climate Treaties

Why can’t global leaders agree on a broad, effective climate change pact?

22 Aug 2013

Agilent Supports University of Michigan's Solar-Car Team

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of Michigan today announced Agilent's support of the university's solar-car team. Agilent will provide a 200-MHz capacitive touch-screen oscilloscope as well as a handheld oscilloscope and a triple-output power supply to support the team's solar-car engineering program, from design through competition.

22 Aug 2013

Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech Establishes RESONATE Awards

The Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has announced that it has established an award that will honor cutting-edge work that addresses some of the hardest problems in energy and sustainability.

22 Aug 2013

DTE Gas Provides Natural Gas Converted From Landfill Gas to Residential Customers

DTE Gas, a subsidiary of DTE Energy Company, is providing pipeline-quality natural gas, which was converted from landfill gas, to its residential customers as part of its commitment to renewable energy.

From DTE Energy 21 Aug 2013

MGM Grand Detroit Completes 61-Acre Parking Garage LED Lamp Retrofit

Further demonstrating its leadership in environmental sustainability, MGM Grand Detroit has completed the light-emitting diode (LED) lamp retrofit of its 61-acre parking garage. Cited as one of the nation's largest LED parking garage makeovers, the three-month installation boasts 3,117 LED lamps and will reduce the garage's annual energy use by 80 percent at the Four Diamond destination resort.

21 Aug 2013

New Annual Renewable Energy Outlook Report from Frost & Sullivan

The past decade has witnessed massive developments in terms of regulations and markets for renewable energy. While less than 50 countries worldwide had renewable support policies in place in the early part of the last decade, this number has now reached over 120. Investments in renewables have also risen dramatically.

From Frost & Sullivan 21 Aug 2013

Final List of Cities Competing in City Climate Leadership Awards Announced

Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) today announced the 29 finalist cities competing in 10 categories for the initial City Climate Leadership Awards. The winners will be named at the Awards presentation event in London, at the Crystal on September 4, 2013.

21 Aug 2013

Novel System Makes Biofuel Isobutanol from Inedible Plant Materials

A fungus and E. coli bacteria have joined forces to turn tough, waste plant material into isobutanol, a biofuel that matches gasoline's properties better than ethanol.

21 Aug 2013

NextFuels Unveils Strategy to Economically Produce Biofuels in Southeast Asia

NextFuels, a pioneer in transforming agricultural residue into biofuels, unveiled its strategy today for economically producing transportation and industrial fuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste.

20 Aug 2013