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Following California’s decision earlier this week to require elevated energy efficiency standards for TVs, the Canadian province of Ontario is considering a similar move.
On Nov. 18, California became the first state in the country to institute its own standards on energy efficiency of ...
Environment
California
Energy Efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivered draft rules for new engine and fuel standards for the largest ocean-bound ships to the White House for review, reports the New York Times.
The draft rule (PDF) requires vessels with large diesel engines to significantly cut their ...
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
New York
The European paper industry has reduced CO2 emissions per ton of paper produced by 42 percent since 1990, according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries’ (CEPI) fourth Sustainability Report (PDF).
The paper industry was the only industrial sector to reduce emissions under ...
Environment
Colbert Report
CO2
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched a global water disclosure project to help businesses and institutional investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with water scarcity and other water-related issues, including greater demand for water, shrinking glaciers and ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Climate Change
Whirlpool Corp. is on track to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 6.6 percent by 2012, according to the company’s first global sustainability report. The company also cut water use by 21.5 percent and overall waste generated per unit decreased by nearly 4 percent from 2004 to ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Green Grid
Energy Efficiency
Colbert Report
National Grid for the second time has turned down a proposal from a Rhode Island offshore wind developer that wants to sell the electricity retailer energy from a yet-to-be-developed wind farm.
National Grid says the price to purchase renewable energy from New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind is ...
Environment
Green Grid
Rhode Island
Energy Efficiency
New commercial buildings in San Mateo, Calif., will have to be constructed to minimum environmental standards now that a previously voluntary green building ordinance has become mandatory.
The new standards take effect Jan. 1, reports the San Jose Mercury News. They had been voluntary for more ...
Environment
Green Grid
California
Sierra Club
A new set of solar arrays atop buildings at Agilent’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., are projected to help save the company $3.5 million in energy costs over the first 10 years of operation.
The new 1 megawatt installation spans over three buildings, according to a press ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
People in South America view a global climate deal as having more urgency than people in other parts of the world.
About 99 percent of South Americans surveyed by World Wide Views on Global Warming.
That compares to about 93 percent of those in Europe, 92 percent of those Oceana, 91 percent of ...
Environment
Global Warming
Climate Change
A massive West Texas wind farm that came under scrutiny for its plans to incorporate Chinese wind turbines – yet still qualify for federal stimulus funds – is aiming to appease critical lawmakers by proposing a U.S. turbine factory, reports the Dallas Morning News.
The 36,000-acre ...
Environment
Texas
China
Energy Efficiency
With heavy truck engines facing a 2010 deadline for new emissions standards from EPA and the California Air Resources Board, engines from Volvo and Mack claim to be the first to meet both certifications.
Heavy duty 11- and 13-liter diesel engines from Volvo and Mack recently passed emissions ...
Environment
California
Environmental Protection Agency
Today’s news from around the Web.
Google Says It Doesn’t Want to Be a Utility
NY Times
How Much of China’s Emissions Mess Is Really Ours?
WSJ
Benchmarking Tool Aims to Help Semiconductor Facilities Improve Energy Efficiency
IndustryWeek
Plans for the Green George W. Bush ...
Environment
George Bush
Green Grid
Energy Efficiency
A report (PDF) by scientists shows that emissions are outpacing the ability of ocean and land carbon sinks to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They are concerned that if natural sinks can’t keep pace with ...
Environment
Richard Land
CO2
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four people in connection with an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that targeted more than 300 elderly and near retirement age investors who were seeking environmentally-friendly investments, reports the Philadelphia Business ...
Environment
Green Grid
Two major solar projects are at a standstill; one over contract renewals and the other due to environmental concerns. Meanwhile, New York lawmakers are making it easier for businesses and homeowners to install solar systems and makeenergy-efficiency improvements.
NRG Energy’s plan to ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Texas
California
New York
Add Canada to a growing list of countries that want to wait until a global climate deal is struck and the United States decides how it will regulate emissions before they regulate their own greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier this week, New Zealand made a similar announcement. There also appears ...
Environment
Canada
Climate Change
Russia
China
United States
India
News Corp. – owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties – is adding software to help manage its environmental impact and energy use.
News Corp. is using software from Hara Environmental and Energy Management to begin collecting energy and ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Climate Change
Sudan
Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true.
Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are ...
Environment
Climate Change
Greenland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Antarctica
Ice Age
Electrical power usage has always been a large and increasing cost of operating a data center.
Over the last decade, as applications have grown more sophisticated and servers more powerful, digital data has grown at an exponential rate and the deployment of storage systems has proliferated. ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Earth Rangers
As the U.S. House of Representatives considers how far the EPA should go in regulating chemicals used in everyday products, trade groups are cautioning against over-regulation.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection took comments on the EPA’s proposed overhaul the ...
