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The San Diego Airport is taking “a key leadership role” in the fight against global warming by agreeing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its major airport expansion, according to California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.
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The International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) and a coalition of consumer, health, and environmental groups on May 1 filed a legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, demanding the agency use its pesticide regulation authority to stop the sale of numerous consumer products using nano-sized versions of silver.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has completed the 500th Energy Saving Assessment at the nation’s largest industrial facilities.
These assessments have helped companies identify opportunities to save over an estimated 80 trillion British Thermal Units of natural gas – roughly equivalent to the natural gas used in more than 1 million American homes – more than $800 million in potential energy savings. If all of the recommendations from the assessments conducted are fully implemented by the industrial facilities, the department estimates that 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be saved annually.
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Terrabon, L.L.C. announced May 7 that it has broken ground on a biofuels conversion facility in Bryan, Texas, that will test the scaled-up, commercial feasibility of its MixAlco™ technology, which converts readily-available, low-cost, non-food biomass into chemicals that can be processed into ethanol and renewable gasoline fuels.
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.
There was a time when custodians at Lockport Township High School pushed cleaning cars packed with an array of spray bottles, spritzers and aerosol cans.
Today, they use just four spray bottles, filled with cleaners low on irritating chemicals and safer for students, staff and the environment.
“We took 10 chemicals off the shelves,” said Lockport custodial manager Ken Kirkland, whose school went green in 2003. “The whole point is we discovered that you don’t need a high industrial-strength cleaner to get a smudge mark off a desk.”
Now, all Illinois public elementary and secondary schools must follow Lockport’s lead.
The Green Cleaning Schools Act, which took effect on May 9, requires that schools use only cleaners that are certified as green and meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.
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Small and mid-sized businesses can now “green” their operations with the “Greening Advisor”, a Web-based tool developed by Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation’s largest and most influential environmental organizations.
