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An Energy-Efficient Solution for Lighting

With consumer interest in energy-efficient lighting growing rapidly, the next wave of mass-market residential and business lighting could be coming from LEDs - light-emitting diodes, also known as solid-state lighting.

29 Apr 2008

Research Project to Evaluate Climate Change Impacts on the U.S.

A prominent climate researcher and professor at the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University has been invited by the White House to serve as a lead author on a national research project to evaluate climate change impacts on the United States.

29 Apr 2008

To Better Understand the Regional Climate-Change Picture

The state of Alaska has the dubious distinction of leading the lower 48 in the effects of a warming climate. Small villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion, soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping trucks.

29 Apr 2008

Too Much of a Good Thing Could Be Harmful to the Environment

Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver's ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently, have used this knowledge to create consumer products containing silver nanoparticles.

29 Apr 2008

Tenneco Launches Emission Control Business on 2008 Toyota Sequoia

Tenneco Inc. announced that it is expanding its business in North America with Toyota Motor Engineering + Manufacturing North America, Inc. with the launch of emission control business on the 2008 Toyota Sequoia.

29 Apr 2008

Awards Honor Students Who Develop Innovative Environmental Projects

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Regional Administrator Bharat Mathur today congratulated the regional winners of the 2007 President's Environmental Youth Awards at an event in Chicago.

29 Apr 2008

The First Multi-Crop Seed Brand Supplying New Market for Biofuel Feedstocks

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. plans to market its agricultural seeds and traits under the trade name Blade Energy Crops in the United States. Company president and CEO Richard Hamilton unveiled the new brand at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Chicago earlier today.

29 Apr 2008

Beacon Power to Provide Flywheel Energy Storage System in Support of Wind Power Integration Project

Beacon Power Corporation, a company that designs and develops advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced today that it has been awarded a subcontract to provide a flywheel energy storage system in support of a wind integration R+D project sponsored by the California Energy Commission.

29 Apr 2008

Santa Clara Ranks As the Second Largest Green Power Community

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the City of Santa Clara a Green Power Community, making the City only one of 14 communities to receive such an honor.

29 Apr 2008

Solar Center to Produce Enough Electricity to Power at Least 800 Homes

Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today hailed an announcement by the city of Philadelphia that a vacant, seven-acre brownfield at the Navy Yard will soon help to meet Pennsylvania's energy needs with clean, renewable solar technology.

29 Apr 2008

SAS for Sustainability Management Makes Being Green Easier

Today's announcement of SAS for Sustainability Management introduces the first decision-support software platform for proactively identifying innovative strategies that effectively address complex environmental, social, and economic situations while achieving stakeholder objectives.

29 Apr 2008

Award to Recognize Effort to Help Families Use Solar Energy to Reduce Utility Bills

Maryland Senator Robert Garagiola and Delegate Sue Hecht each received the prestigious Government Leadership Award today for their prominent roles in passing the Maryland renewable portfolio standard into law to mandate the increased use of solar energy.

29 Apr 2008

Global Climate Change Will Require Changes to Business Models in the Years Ahead

CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, and Storm Exchange, Inc., a leading weather risk management originator, announced today the results of a benchmark study which revealed that 82 percent of senior finance and risk managers believe global climate change will require changes to their business models in the years ahead.

29 Apr 2008

Enova Hybrid Drive Systems Significantly Reduce Emissions

Recent dynamometer test results conclude that IC Bus school buses using post-transmission hybrid drive systems from Enova Systems can improve fuel efficiency by more than 70 percent compared to standard diesel-powered school buses.

29 Apr 2008

Solar Tower to Help Evaluate New Technology for Future Space Shuttle Missions

NASA has once again turned to Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility - aka the Solar Tower - to help evaluate new technology for future space shuttle missions. NASA's most recent testing series in early March evaluated the HYpersonic AeroTHermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) systems.

29 Apr 2008