The green blogger is back from her long weekend vacation and lost $20
for playing slots. She consoled herself by buying a 50% discounted
purse.
Not much news last week probably because of the religious holidays. Watch out for my post about Shell's Eco-marathon this coming weekend! Hopefully there will be lots of exciting news (which I will twitter) as college kids across the Americas compete in Fontana, California, for the most fuel-efficient (and fewer emission) vehicle built by their own hands.
For now here are last week's news roundup:
Green gas from Texas
Clean Energy Fuels signed a 15-year deal for the sale of biomethane produced at the McCommas Bluff landfill in Dallas, Texas. Beginning in April 2009, the biomethane will be sold at fixed prices that increase in 2010 and 2011 and then remain fixed over the remainder of the agreement. Shell Energy North America will act as the purchaser and supply the biomethane to the end-user.
Bayer in hybrid cars
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) formed a collaboration with Velozzi, a start-up automotive OEM. Velozzi is designing multiple lightweight, plug-in, multi-fuel hybrid electric vehicles that will utilize a number of materials and application technologies from BMS.
Not much news last week probably because of the religious holidays. Watch out for my post about Shell's Eco-marathon this coming weekend! Hopefully there will be lots of exciting news (which I will twitter) as college kids across the Americas compete in Fontana, California, for the most fuel-efficient (and fewer emission) vehicle built by their own hands.
For now here are last week's news roundup:
Green gas from Texas
Clean Energy Fuels signed a 15-year deal for the sale of biomethane produced at the McCommas Bluff landfill in Dallas, Texas. Beginning in April 2009, the biomethane will be sold at fixed prices that increase in 2010 and 2011 and then remain fixed over the remainder of the agreement. Shell Energy North America will act as the purchaser and supply the biomethane to the end-user.
Bayer in hybrid cars
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) formed a collaboration with Velozzi, a start-up automotive OEM. Velozzi is designing multiple lightweight, plug-in, multi-fuel hybrid electric vehicles that will utilize a number of materials and application technologies from BMS.
OPX gets green funding
Bioproducts company OPX Biotechnologies closed a $17.5 million Series B round of financing to fund biofuels and green chemistry process development and demonstration. Based in Boulder, Colo., OPX was founded in 2007, currently employs 25 people and expects to double its team over the next year.
Fuel cell DOE grant
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won a $1.6 million federal grant from the US Department of Energy to develop new methods for manufacturing a key fuel cell component. The multi-year grant aims to create new technology and processes for faster, more cost-effective manufacturing of fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs).
BPA-free canned seafood
Vital Choice Wild Seafood & Organics announced that all of their canned seafood is now 100% free of bisphenol-A (BPA) materials. Vital Choice transitioned to BPA-free packaging for all of its canned seafood products, including wild Alaskan sockeye salmon, Albacore tuna, Portuguese sardines and Atlantic mackerel.
And in ICIS news (subscription required):
Consumer-driven regulation of chemicals and chemical-derived products and packaging at the retail level will continue to expand and increasingly will drive product de-selection, according to law firm Bergeson & Campbell.
The US chemicals sector must be engaged with Congress and environmentalists to reform the nation's chemicals control system and restore consumer confidence, according to the American Chemistry Council.
European Commission vice president Margot Wallstrom said she would like to see "a new UN panel with independent researchers to tackle the risks from chemicals in the same way that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is doing for climate change."
Bioproducts company OPX Biotechnologies closed a $17.5 million Series B round of financing to fund biofuels and green chemistry process development and demonstration. Based in Boulder, Colo., OPX was founded in 2007, currently employs 25 people and expects to double its team over the next year.
Fuel cell DOE grant
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won a $1.6 million federal grant from the US Department of Energy to develop new methods for manufacturing a key fuel cell component. The multi-year grant aims to create new technology and processes for faster, more cost-effective manufacturing of fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs).
BPA-free canned seafood
Vital Choice Wild Seafood & Organics announced that all of their canned seafood is now 100% free of bisphenol-A (BPA) materials. Vital Choice transitioned to BPA-free packaging for all of its canned seafood products, including wild Alaskan sockeye salmon, Albacore tuna, Portuguese sardines and Atlantic mackerel.
And in ICIS news (subscription required):
Consumer-driven regulation of chemicals and chemical-derived products and packaging at the retail level will continue to expand and increasingly will drive product de-selection, according to law firm Bergeson & Campbell.
The US chemicals sector must be engaged with Congress and environmentalists to reform the nation's chemicals control system and restore consumer confidence, according to the American Chemistry Council.
European Commission vice president Margot Wallstrom said she would like to see "a new UN panel with independent researchers to tackle the risks from chemicals in the same way that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is doing for climate change."
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