Fracking's Threats To Drinking Water Call For A Precautionary Approach
Fracking, shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, is the process of blasting water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure so as to fracture shale rock and release the gas it holds....
View ArticleReady For New Executive Carbon Regulations
Duluth-based Minnesota Power, which has dropped their coal-based power production from 95 percent to 80 percent since 2000, says it's too soon to determine the extent of how President Obama's new rules...
View ArticleWEX Teams With CITGO To Provide Private-Label Fleet Card Services
WEX Inc. signs a long-term agreement with CITGO Petroleum Corp. to provide private-label fleet card services.
View ArticleHow To Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Drive for Innovation Chapter 239: How to boost solar cell efficiency. Professor Yang Yang at UCLA describes his work with using organic polymers to boost solar cell efficiency. NO RATINGS. Login to...
View ArticleSyed Mokhtar's Malakoff Buys 50% Of Aussie Wind Farm
Under the share purchase agreement, Malakoff will acquire the entire share capital of Meridian Wind Macarthur (MWM) Holdings, which operates Macarthur Wind Farm under a joint-venture agreement with...
View ArticleCommittee Passes Resolution On Pipeline
The Township Committee followed through with its promise and passed a resolution last week, requesting that natural gas company Transco do an environmental impact study and uphold its restoration...
View ArticleDOE Launches 'EGallon' Electric Vehicle Charge Cost Calculator
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created a new online calculator called the "eGallon" that's designed to give users a simple way to compare the cost of charging an electric vehicle with the cost of...
View ArticleLANL Puts Nuke Work On Hold Amid Safety Review
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charles McMillan has halted a number of activities at PF-4, the lab's main plutonium facility, pending a thorough verification of safety procedures. All areas of...
View ArticleCebuanos Invent Energy Self-Reliant Vehicle
It's a bike, it's a cart, it's train, but its inventors call it Secret. Environmental lawyer Antonio Oposa Jr. teamed-up with mechanic Brian Yuson of Compostela town to come up with the Self-contained...
View ArticleEH Tests Readiness To Be One Of Five Shelters In Event Of Millstone Leak
Should a radiation leak occur at Waterford's Millstone Nuclear Power Station, state emergency response plans call for East Hartford to receive and treat evacuees from Waterford and Montville....
View ArticleSolar Leasing Arrives In New Mexico
New Mexico homeowners can now lease solar electric systems for 25 years with no upfront costs thanks to a new partnership between Albuquerque's Affordable Solar Group and Texas-based solar leasing...
View ArticleForest Service Grants Help Design Biofuel Energy Projects
Grant program has helped pay for fores wildfire fuel reduction projects By Summit Voice FRISCO - For all its dead lodgepole pines, Colorado was shut out of the latest round of grants awarded by the...
View ArticleERPC To File Petition On Coal Sampling With CERC
Power producers have decided to move the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) through the Eastern Regional Power Committee opposing coal sampling at the loading site to increase pressure on...
View ArticleSudan Downplays Juba's Pursuit Of New Oil Pipeline
Sudan's oil minister, Awad Ahmed al-Jaz, has asserted the difficulty of building a new pipeline to transfer South Sudan's oil through another country and said that it is not cost effective because the...
View ArticleTata Power Solar Launches SunJeevini, A Retrofit Solar Charger For Inverter
Tata Power Solar has launched SunJeevini, a retrofit unit that allows conventional inverter batteries to be charged through solar power. This is suitable for conventional inverter batteries in areas...
View ArticleGovt Invites Offers From 9 Firms For CIL Restructuring
The coal ministry has invited proposals from nine shortlisted firms, including ICICI Securities, KPMG, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, Deloitte and Crisil, for restructuring of state-run miner Coal India.
View ArticleSaving Energy, Money With 'Mini' Power Plants
The nuclear reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland produce more than 1,700 megawatts of electricity....
View ArticleCalifornia Grid Operator Asks Geothermal To Help Feed The Duck
California's 33-percent-renewables-by-2020 mandate is becoming a reality, and the state's electricity system operator wants the geothermal industry to help keep the grid stable as more generation comes...
View ArticleHow NV Energy Will Exit Coal And Make Money Doing It
How Nevada's new state law mandating NV Energy exit the coal business came to being illustrates how money, business interests and the right friends will dictate energy cost and policy for every Nevadan...
View ArticleLavan Oil Refinery's Gasoline Production Up By 1.8 Ml/d
Managing Director of Lavan Oil Refining Company Mohammad Ali Dadvar said at present the refinery's daily gasoline production stands at 1.08 million liters that will hit 2.8 million liters of eruo-4...
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