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Budget Delivers a Cleaner and Healthier Tomorrow

Building on 37 years of progress in protecting human health and the environment, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today released his agency's $7.14 billion fiscal year 2009 budget.

4 Feb 2008

Companies Report Significant Drop in Release of PFOA

Eight major companies have reported significant drops in the release of PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and related chemicals, putting industry on target to meet a 95 percent reduction goal in PFOA emissions and product content by 2010. Further reductions are anticipated by 2015.

4 Feb 2008

Michelin Awarded for Best Sustainable Development

Michelin's 2005-2006 Performance and Responsibility report has received the 2007 Best Sustainable Development Report Award!

4 Feb 2008

The Promise of Clean Treated Water

It was a serenely simple groundbreaking event: a wheelbarrow full of cement, a small circle of stones, and a beaming crowd of Hondurans and visitors, among them a group of Cornell engineering students.

4 Feb 2008

Symposium Focuses on Improving Drought Tolerance

Hosted by DuPont business Pioneer-Hi-Bred, the intent of the meeting is to share research information among public and private organizations in order to help increase farm productivity, alleviate poverty and improve the human condition in drought-prone areas of the world.

4 Feb 2008

Linde to Construct Hydrogen Plant

The technology group The Linde Group has signed a contract with BASF to construct a large hydrogen plant for their facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

4 Feb 2008

Xerox Launches Environmentally Friendly Printer

For budget-conscious small and mid-size businesses that want to make a splash with vivid, professional quality colour documents without breaking the bank, Xerox Canada has launched its lowest-price colour laser printer yet.

4 Feb 2008

O-I World HQ Recognized as Truly Environmentally-Friendly Structure

Owens-Illinois, Inc. today announced that its new world headquarters building in Perrysburg, Ohio, has been awarded silver LEED certification, recognizing it as a truly environmentally-friendly structure.

4 Feb 2008

Scientists Reinforces Urgent Need to Protect Peat Bogs

Research carried out by scientists from Earthwatch, the international environmental charity, has reinforced the urgent need to protect Europe’s remaining peat bogs.

3 Feb 2008

Producers Release Analysis of Current Biofuel Specifications

The governments of the United States, Brazil and the European Union (EU)—the world’s major producers of biofuels—today released an analysis of current biofuel specifications with the goal of facilitating expanded trade of these renewable energy sources. Spurred by increased market demands, this report was solicited by the U.S. and Brazilian governments and the European Commission (EC) on behalf of the EU, with the work conducted by an international group of fuel standards experts.

3 Feb 2008

New Astronomical Observatory in the South Pole

A team of scientists representing six international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in reaching the summit of Antarctica – also a monumental achievement for ground-based astronomy -- to establish a new astronomical observatory at Dome Argus on the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau.

3 Feb 2008

Changing and Growing Markets Have Renewed Interest in Crops

Changing and growing markets have renewed interest and research on guayule and lesquerella, two native Big Bend plants that might be grown in other parts of Texas, a Texas AgriLife Research scientist said.

3 Feb 2008

Lockheed Facilities Recognized as Green Power Purchasers

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Lockheed Martin for the company's leading green power purchase and participation in the agency's Green Power Partnership. Three Lockheed Martin facilities have been named in the agency's Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge List, which recognizes corporations that reduce environmental impacts associated with electricity use.

2 Feb 2008

Facilities will Help Spur the Development of Advanced Clean Coal Technologies

Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) today released a statement supporting the permitting of two Duke Energy coal-fueled power plants, the Cliffside Steam Station in North Carolina and the Edwardsport Station in Indiana. Both plants will incorporate advanced technologies to help reduce air emissions while providing critical electricity generation for both regions.

1 Feb 2008

Georgia Power to Supply Green Power to TOTO USA

Georgia Power recently signed an agreement with TOTO USA, Inc. to begin providing the company with Green Energy(R). Under the terms of the agreement, TOTO USA, Inc. has agreed to purchase 480,000 kilowatt-hours of Green Energy.

1 Feb 2008