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1. EPA Sets Limits on Mercury and Other Air Emissions from Cement Kilns
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Cement plants emit mercury from the kilns used in the cement manufacturing process. Cement kilns operate at high temperatures, and are, in fact used to destroy many types of toxic substances. The rule, ...

2. Renewable Power Users and Sources
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Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...

3. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
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The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

4. The Ultimate Solar Cell?
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The ultimate step in utilizing solar power is to convert maximum energy from sun into electricity. This will make solar power highly cost-advantageous compared to other traditional power sources. Capturing ...

5. EPA Takes a New Stance on Sulfur Dioxide in Final Rule
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Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is a highly reactive gas that is produced from the combustion of fossil fuels. The largest sources of SO2 are power plants (73 percent) and other industrial facilities (20 percent). ...

6. Increase Renewable Energy Sources – Generate More Jobs
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This has been the slogan that GE, one of the leading power suppliers and energy delivery technology pioneers, propagated all through the ‘Capture the Wind‘ tour across US. GE Energy, comprised ...

7. EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
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U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy held a press conference today to discuss the EPA's final rule to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the largest stationary sources, while shielding ...

8. New water-splitting catalyst found
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... were engineers know how to handle the stuff safely; but when we are talking about thousands of square miles of solar water-splitting arrays, and individual homeowners, then an alternative electrolyte like ...

9. Interior Department Suspends Virginia Oil and Gas Leases
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WASHINGTON (May 6, 2010) -- The Natural Resources Defense Council today welcomed the Interior Department's decision to indefinitely suspend public meetings on potential offshore oil and gas drilling near ...

10. The Home Depot Foundation Releases 2009 Annual Report
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The Home Depot® Foundation has just announced the release of its 2009 annual report. Demonstrating its commitment to building sustainable homes and communities and preserving resources, the Foundation ...

11. The Home Depot Foundation Releases 2009 Annual Report
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The Home Depot® Foundation announced the release of its 2009 annual report. Because of its commitment to building sustainable homes and communities and preserving resources, the Foundation has issued its ...

12. 3 Questions: Stephen Connors on offshore wind farms
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Stephen Connors is director of the Analysis Group for Regional Energy Alternatives (AGREA) at the MIT Energy Initiative. He is a graduate of what is now the Wind Energy Center at UMass-Amherst and an inaugural ...

13. Energy Grid Could Make Offshore Wind Power More Reliable
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Scientists believe that natural resources can meet the energy needs of the entire human population. Wind energy too has huge potential to generate power for us. Researchers are trying to trap offshore ...

14. How Wind Farms Affect the Global Climate
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Wind energy has been a fast growing sector of the overall energy market. It is renewable energy that can be produced on an industrial scale that can rival the older established energy sources of coal, ...

15. EPA Sets Greenhouse Gases Permitting Requirements for Major Sources
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US EPA has announced the timing for major sources of greenhouse gases to revise their permits, or to obtain new permits under the new greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting and permitting regulations.  ...

16. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
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Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight ...

17. Scotland gets serious about sea power
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Scotland has approved ten marine energy projects that leaders predict could provide electricity for one-third of the nation’s homes by 2020 and make Scotland the world leader in wave energy. The government ...

18. California Caps SF6 Emissions for Utilities
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The California Air Resources Board recently announced that they will begin monitoring and limiting the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) in high-voltage electrical equipment starting in 2011. SF6 ...

19. America’s Premiere Wave Power Farm Sets Sail
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Wave energy is among the impressive list of renewable energy resources that is being developed in the United States. New Jersey-based developer, Ocean Power Technologies has launched a project that ...

20. In Profile: Alex Slocum
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... celebrating its 40th year at MIT. As an alternative that allows about 50 freshmen to satisfy their General Institute Requirements in an atmosphere of small, personalized classes and peer learning in small ...

21. Norwegian Company Develops World’s Largest Wind Turbine
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... is one of the more promising alternative energy sources and Norwegian scientists are currently in the development stages of what promises to be [...] Posted in: Industry, Wind Power, Wind Turbines  ...

22. Aquamarine Power Makes Riding the Waves More Interesting
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Every time we turn around we are seeing something new and exciting in renewable energy forms and Aquamarine Power is the latest in a long line of energy sources to be pumped up about. Aquamarine Power ...

23. Solar Cells from Tobacco Plants May Be a Reality Soon
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As the world continues its quest to use less fossil fuels, the latest possible solution comes from the most unlikely of sources: the tobacco plant. This latest news comes from the University of California, ...

24. Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe
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UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. ...

25. World Bank to Invest in North African Solar
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The World Bank will invest $5.5 billion for North African solar power projects. They have announced that initially World Bank will put in $750 million dollars from the Clean Technology Fund with the ...

26. EPA Updates Mobile Source Emissions Model
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The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants ...

27. Actionable Steps to Building a Sustainable Business
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With the new year rapidly approaching, it is a good time as individuals, and as businesses, to look at ways we can reduce our environmental impact, or as a large part of our environmental impact is known ...

28. Clean Future Solutions Now
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... Future Solutions is dedicated to providing affordable alternatives that help eliminate our country's dependence on foreign supplied oil, contribute to a cleaner healthier environment and alleviate the ...

29. EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward in regulating greenhouse gas emission in the US from both mobile sources (principally autos and trucks) and stationary sources (industrial ...

30. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gasses Under the Clean Air Act
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward in regulating greenhouse gas emission in the US from both mobile sources (principally autos and trucks) and stationary sources (industrial ...