Mount Redoubt Volcano erupted in March and sent ash skyrocketing into the air and falling on towns and cities around Cook Inlet and some in Anchorage, Alaska.
Commentary
The carbon footprint, global warming (true or not), the cost of fuel, the need for energy to exist, and efforts toward a sustainable world has everyone talking.
- By Frank Hutchinson, P.E., D.E.E., F.ASCE
Chinook Sciences and European Metal Recycling will convert auto shredder residue into renewable energy and recover metals in the process.
Raser Technologies and Copper King Mining have signed an agreement that will expand Raser's holdings in geothermal rights.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory will get a new chemicals and materials sciences research building thanks to $71.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Industrial research labs often manage chemical and hazardous waste storage and removal separately, using different contractors at various points in the handling process.
Even if you don't believe global warming is “real" or support U.S. efforts to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs), the cold hard fact is, this country is headed for GHG regulation … and fast.
Scientists from Virginia, Sweden and the Savannah River National Laboratory say carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and release hydrogen.
DOE's Argonne National Laboratory has developed an RFID technology to monitor containers of nuclear materials.
Computer monitors and digital picture frames will have to meet new energy efficiency requirements by as early as October to be able to display the Energy Star label
EPA's new chemical toxicity strategy will incorporate methods that use advances in molecular biology, genomics, and computational sciences.