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EPA to award $5 million for Midwest Clean-Diesel projects
Read the press release. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5′s Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative today announced that it expects to award some $5 million in grants for diesel-emission reduction projects in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Project proposals … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Great Lakes Region
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EPA to Enlist the Help of Ports in Green Strategy
Read the full story in Water & Wastewater News. To reduce the environmental impacts of moving goods through ports, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a new plan for working with public port authorities and other interested groups.
Posted in Transportation
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Study: Hybrid, Electric Cars are Water Guzzlers
Read the full story in Water & Wastewater News. Eco-minded drivers in drought-prone states take note: A new study concludes that producing electricity for hybrid and fully electric vehicles could sharply increase water consumption in the United States. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Hybrids
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Cancer high lakeside
Read the full story in the London Free Press. It’s imperative that Canada study the potential health impacts of pollution and poor water quality in light of a controversial American report that suggests some Great Lakes cities have abnormally high … Continue reading
Toilet Tales: A Cooperative Display from the Roselle Public Library District and the Wastewater Treatment Division of the Village of Roselle Public Works Department
Through March the Roselle (IL) Public Library is featuring a cooperative display developed by the library and the Wastewater Treatment Division of the Village of Roselle Public Works Department. The Toilet Tales display points out how we need to be … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Schools, Wastewater Treatment
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EPA Clears the Air: New Standards Drastically Cut Locomotive and Marine Diesel Pollution
Read the press release. New tough emissions standards will slash pollution from locomotive and marine diesel engines by up to 90 percent, helping Americans to breathe cleaner air as soon as this year.
Posted in Air, Regulation
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The latest from RenewableEnergyAccess.com
The latest issue of Renewable Energy Weekly is now available. Highlights include: Five Trends to Watch in the Renewable Energy Industry Regulators and Utilities Urged to Step Up Grid Modernization Efforts Inside Renewable Energy podcast: Growing a Sustainable Hydropower Industry … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Fuels, Renewable Energy
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Green Mission: Big Business Wrestles With the Environment
Read the full post in the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog. The green business tsunami keeps rolling along. Today, swarms of corporate heavyweights are descending on a swanky resort in Santa Barbara, Calif., an old Spanish mission town, for … Continue reading
Posted in Green Business
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Subsidies? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Subsidies
Read the full post in the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog. Just like the U.S., the European Union has for years thrown tax breaks and subsidies at its transport biofuels sector. Unlike the U.S., though, EU leaders are rethinking … Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels, International, Policy
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Slicing Up Silicon for Cheaper Solar
Read the full story in Technology Review. A California startup is cutting by half the amount of costly silicon used in solar panels.
Posted in Solar Energy
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