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EPA recognizes top green power purchasers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing its list of the top 50 organizations using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electricity use of more than 1 million average American homes. Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydropower.
The Intel Corporation tops the list as the Partnership’s largest single purchaser ... |
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Nagoya deal ushers in new era of biodiversity protection
Environment ministers from almost 200 countries agreed an historic global deal to extend biodiverisity protection late last week in a move that it likely to have long term implications for many global businesses.
Following hours of tense negotiations at the Nagoya UN biodiversity summit in Japan, ministers signed up to a sweeping package of measures that will impose new voluntary targets for biodiversity protection and usher in a new regime for sharing the financial benefits generated from natural genetic resources.
Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, ... |
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Ambidata, Lda.
Ambidata is a company with 2 departments one dedicated to environment solutions to water treatment and a software development department dedicated to develop LabWay-LIMS a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) software solution to analisys laboratorys. LabWay-LIMS is a Laboratory Information Management System dedicated to Laboratorys of environmental analysis. It is a Software that implements the entier process in a laboratory from creation a client budgets, Samples calendaritation, Samples Collecting, Samples Control, Lists of Work, Validation Processes, and publication of results.
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- Nissan reveals 27,000 pre-orders for electric Leaf
Nissan has this week confirmed that it has already received 27,000 pre-orders worldwide for its soon-to-be-launched Leaf electric car, including 1,000 ...
- Plant bank to preserve biodiversity of Pacific crops
The giant swamp taro, the orange-fleshed Fe`i banana and a coconut that grows to half a metre in length are among the native crop species to be saved ...
- ACCIONA Energy Introduces U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan
ACCIONA Energy announced today the formalization of its U.S. and Canada Avian and Bat Protection Plan. The company`s internal plan sets guidelines that ...
- Congressional Sea Change Needn`t Swamp Environmental Progress
Statement of National Audubon Society President & CEO David Yarnold on the results of the 2010 Congressional Elections.
"Americans ...
- Improving plant lifecycle costs by reducing energy
Today’s wastewater plants are dealing with aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent regulations, escalating operating and energy costs and budgetary ...
- Odors in Indoor Environments can Cause Health Problems and Decrease Worker Productivity
The building consulting experts at EC2 provide indoor air quality (IAQ) testing services to help identify the source of problematic odors.
Unpleasant ...
- Spending must double on renewable energy projects in developing countries
Investment in renewable energy must double in developing countries over the next decade just to meet their existing climate and energy supply ambitions, ...
- Sweco wins two new hydropower contracts
In a short span of time Sweco has been awarded two new hydropower contracts worth a total of nearly EUR 3.5 million.
A large share of Sweden’s ...
- AMEC to clean up solvent sites in North Carolina
AMEC Earth & Environmental (Plymouth Meeting, PA) has received a five-year contract from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural ...
- AERMOD & CALPUFF Courses in Haikou City, China – Jan 10-14, 2011
Lakes Environmental is teaming up with their Chinese distributor, SinoCAN Intellitech Ltd. to present a full week of View More News Submit your News |
