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Companies Try To Recycle All Waste, Send Nothing To Landfill
Last Updated: 10:34 AM 02/03/12 - Food leftovers as worm bedding? At a DuPont warehouse in Lockport, N.Y., cafeteria waste is turned into compost that's used for its landscaping.
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Obama Boosts Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind-Farm Plans

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Last Updated: 10:08 AM 02/03/12 - In a bid to help launch offshore wind power in the United States, the Obama administration said Thursday that it was moving forward to lease four areas off the Mid-Atlantic coast. (Full Story)

Groundhog Day: 6 More Weeks of Winter

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Last Updated: 10:30 AM 02/03/12 - PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter. (Full Story)

President Obama's Energy Plan Panned By Both Sides

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Last Updated: 12:25 PM 01/26/12 - As his re-election bid nears, President Obama is pitching a made-in-America energy agenda that calls for more offshore oil drilling, natural gas development and clean-energy investments. (Full Story)

Biden Calls for New Clean Energy Policy for US

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Last Updated: 1:45 PM 08/30/11 - Vice President Joe Biden says the United States can't lead the world in the 21st century with its current energy policy. (Full Story)

ERCOT Urges Electric Conservation Through Tuesday

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Last Updated: 10:08 AM 08/29/11 - AUSTIN, Texas - The manager of the state's electric grid has issued another plea for saving energy as the Texas heat wave lingers. (Full Story)

Record-Breaking Heat Smothers Texas

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Last Updated: 10:06 AM 08/29/11 - Triple-digit, record-breaking heat is smothering Texas and energy providers are asking for conservation as the state sweats in one of the hottest, driest summers ever. (Full Story)

Police Arrest 65 Near White House in Oil Protest

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Last Updated: 10:15 AM 08/22/11 - Environmentalist protesters have been arrested outside the White House on the first day of a planned two-week protest over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. (Full Story)

AP Exclusive: Cogentrix Solar Applications Denied

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Last Updated: 11:38 AM 08/20/11 - Federal land managers are rejecting a Goldman Sachs-owned company's applications to develop solar projects on public lands in the sun-drenched Nevada desert; years after the subsidiary filed more claims to build glimmering solar farms than anyone else. (Full Story)

Texas Petroleum Investment Company Fined for Violating the Clean Water Act

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Last Updated: 9:55 AM 08/16/11 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fined the Texas Petroleum Company of Houston, Texas, $163,487 for violating federal Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations outlined under the Clean Water Act. (Full Story)

Texas Working to Avoid Blackouts from Summer Heat

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Last Updated: 9:27 AM 08/09/11 - The battle to avoid rolling blackouts in Texas' unrelenting hot weather as power demand reaches record levels has become a daily drama. (Full Story)

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Electric Vehicle Market Forecast – 10 Year Horizon Looks Strong
IDTechEx has been tracking developments in the electric vehicle market for the last eleven years by touring the world's companies, research institutes and conferences to gain insights into key technology changes and business opportunities in the EV market. They have just published their new 2012 forecast with a 10 year horizon, and whether you like EVs or not – their take is that they are here to stay.
Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But no one could say why. "The cause of tree death, called yellow-cedar decline, is now known to be a form of root freezing that occurs during cold weather in late winter and early spring, but only when snow is not present on the ground," explains Pacific Northwest Research Station scientist Paul Hennon, co-lead of a synthesis paper recently published in the February issue of the journal BioScience. "When present, snow protects the fine, shallow roots from extreme soil temperatures. The shallow rooting of yellow-cedar, early spring growth, and its unique vulnerability to freezing injury also contribute to this problem."
The Super Green Bowl
For the past 18 years, the NFL has been working to decrease the environmental footprint of the largest annual sporting event in the U.S. – the Super Bowl. Two years ago, we wrote about several initiatives aimed at reducing the events’ impacts. Last year, we covered how Super Bowl XLV was slated to be the greenest NFL championship game in history. This year, the NFL is trying to outdo itself yet again by working with the Green Mountain Energy Company and the Indianapolis community to make Super Bowl XLVI the greenest yet. I talked with Jack Groh, Director of the NFL’s Environmental Program, to get the details on this year’s efforts.
Nano Improved Transformer Oil
Rice University scientists have created a nano-infused oil that could greatly enhance the ability of devices as large as electrical transformers and as small as microelectronic components to shed excess heat. Research in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan, which appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano, could raise the efficiency of such transformer oils by as much as 80 percent in a way that is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. The Rice team focused their efforts on transformers for energy systems. Transformers are filled with mineral oils that cool and insulate the windings inside, which must remain separated from each other to keep voltage from leaking or shorting.
Study Reveals Impacts of Environmental Changes on Southern Ocean Food Web
In January of this year, a comprehensive study of animals in the Southern Ocean was completed, showing that the region is under threat from climate change. The scientific journal Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography featured the findings of an international group of researchers who wrote over 20 papers about the effects on the Scotia Sea food web by above average water temperatures.
Carbon Source or Carbon Sink: Greenhouse Gases in the Tropics
The lush vegetation wrapping the center of the globe is one of the most important features for regulating a stable climate in the world. Much excess CO2 emissions from industrialized regions find their way to the equator to be absorbed by abundant CO2-consuming plant life. However, as large tracts of tropical rainforest are cut down in the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia, worries have grown that this vital region may turn from a carbon sink to a carbon source. Those worries can be put at ease somewhat thanks to a recent study from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). Their report suggests that carbon storage of forests, shrublands, and savannas in the tropics are 21 percent higher than previously believed.
Fascinating ancient Sahara site celebrated for World Wetlands Day
Tunis, Tunisia: A remote seasonal salt lake on the edge of the Sahara leads a list of 15 new Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance being declared in the country on World Wetlands Day, February 2. Chott Elguetar, a 7,400 ha site with an intermittent lake, is vital to the survival of the threatened Scimitar Oryx, Addax and Dama Gazelle. It also contains traces of human religious and industrial activity that have been dated back 40,000 years.

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