The US EPA continues to take on what Congress has failed to do. One of the barriers for energy companies is the patchwork quilt of regulations spanning 48 adjacent states, each with their own set of rules. EPA, which has been mandated by the Supreme Court to control Green House Gasses under [...]
Ruby Canyon Engineering Awarded Russian Coal Mine Methane Contract
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Aug. 9, 2010) – Ruby Canyon Engineering (RCE), an engineering consulting company whose main focus is greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has been awarded a contract based in Moscow, Russia, for the final evaluation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) Project.
The objective of this [...]
America’s State Legislatures, County Officials & Mayors Ask Congress to Reauthorize Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
National Organizations Endorse Clean Diesel Upgrade Program At Annual Meetings
Washington, D.C. – Cited as one of the few actions that will have immediate environmental benefits in all 50 states, the national organizations that represent America’s state legislatures, county officials and mayors endorsed the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) and requested that [...]
IT Cabling Manufacturer Siemon’s American Operations are Significantly Carbon Negative
Company’s carbon reductions and offsets exceed actual emissions by over 330%
Watertown, CT, USA – Siemon, a worldwide leader in IT network infrastructure, today announced that its U.S. and Canada operations have achieved carbon negativity. Siemon reached this green benchmark through an aggressive program of environmental improvement initiatives, including the development of more energy-efficient and [...]
Green Products
Andy Soos, ENN – Life is confusing. When buying a product one has to consider whether it is green, inexpensive, actually works, and so forth and so on. There is also the life cycle of the product to consider. Is the product beneficial to the environment in the long [...]
Understanding Carbon Offsetting
From: Karina Grudnikov, ENN, Sierra Club Green Home
Published July 6, 2010 11:27 AM
Most of us know about carbon emissions and understand the idea of our own individual “carbon footprint,” but here is a new concept that seems to be catching on: carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting seems to be an indirect way to [...]
Agriculture and Bio-Based Industries to Generate $230 Billion; Create More than 800,000 Jobs
World Economic Forum Report outlines Future for Biorefining Industry in U.S. and Globally
WASHINGTON， Jun 29, 2010– Today, during a keynote address at the BIO World Congress conference, Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes, a world leader in bioinnovation, unveiled a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which concludes that [...]
EPA Supports Superfund “Polluter Pays” Provision
Agency submits administration’s guidance to Congress
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today sent a letter to Congress in support of reinstating the lapsed Superfund “polluter pays” taxes. Superfund is the federal government’s program that investigates and cleans up the nation’s most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. If reinstated, the Superfund provision would [...]
