While international negotiations on rules about how to reduce emissions and slow global warming are slow but ongoing, the Indonesian and Norwegian governments signed a letter of intent under which up to $1 billion is available to assist in setting up a "stop deforestation and forest degradation" system that also addresses peatland emissions.
New York City brokers have over the last couple of years noticed that luxury home buyers are often looking to buy green and LEED certified apartments and it has been difficult to find these homes.
Tina and Jewel, two Asian elephants owned by the circus, are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The inaugural prize will be presented in May to city, state, private, and educational groups.
Partners used stimulus funding to expand solar panels that run electrical resistance heating system to clean up groundwater at the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site.
McGill researchers develop a new and inexpensive way of filtering water using silver nanoparticles.
In this fifth and last installment of the multi-part series on today's problems in land development, the author takes a look at redevelopment in the inner suburban core.
This basic course introduces water quality and criteria programs to those with less than one year of experience and veterans needing a refresher.
John Bostick apparently knew the building's ceiling contained asbestos but failed to tell workers, who were not trained in correct work practice techniques.
P&G's Taicang plant in China – which is breaking ground today – is the first P&G manufacturing site to pursue LEED certification, with several additional new P&G sites currently working toward the same distinction globally.
Southern Maine Specialties will pay $38,250 for claims that it violated proper storage, labeling, and other management of hazardous waste.
The filter units use structured plastic synthetic media to remove hydrogen sulfide and other odor-causing chemicals.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently completed a year-long technology evaluation of gasoline hybrid electric trucks compared with conventional diesel vehicles.
The Water Environment Federation will offer one article per issue of its journal online.
Data from the Glory mission will allow scientists to better understand how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate.
Kia Motor Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with members of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) to help promote Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV) and showcase the company's competitiveness in eco-friendly vehicles. The initial agreement was signed yesterday in Seoul, attended by Dr. Hyun Soon Lee, Vice Chairman and head of Hyundai-Kia R&D; Dr. Klaus Bonhoff, Managing Director of NOW GmbH (National Organization of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology); Patrick Schnell, Chairman of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) and other CEP members. As part of its global activities to prepare commercialization of fuel cell vehicles, Kia intends to join the Clean Energy Partnership in 2011. The parties agreed to negotiate respective terms for participation.
Some of the penalty money will support supplemental environmental projects on clean school buses and tire cleanup.
Companies aim to deliver two million clean cookstoves to Nigerian households over the next seven years.
The company now offers its most popular high-performance electric bikes: The Fighter and the Bomber.
The support will be given to the university system in Kansas, where the company is headquartered, over the next 10 years.