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Lucky $26m green recipients

Is $26m enough to partially fund development of new energy efficient industrial processing? The US Department of Energy (DOE) seems to think so and has given the three-year funding to be shared by eight lucky projects: Energy Reduction and Advanced Water Removal via Membrane Solvent Extraction Technology...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
Stronger US wind power

Here's a nice cool story from the New York Times about a certain Nebraska town and its growing pride in their windy condition. Ainsworth, Nebraska, according to the article, became the state's first major wind farm with 36 wind turbines erected in late 2005. Nebraska Public Power District, the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008
Garbage war in Pennsylvania

Disposing trash must be really getting costlier if a hauler has to sue its municipal garbage authority for landfill discrimination. Lebanon Farms Disposal, a hauler from Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, was fined in 2003 for violating Lebanon County's disposal regulation by transporting their refuse...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
Pollution solution in China

As China's Beijing continues to be shrouded with smog days before the Olympic games, more transportation solution is being offered to reduce air pollution from companies such as Segway and Alcoa . Chinese and Olympic officials are going to use the zero-emissions Segway PT for stadium and event hall...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
Bitter accusations on sugar plants

Sugar manufacturer Imperial Sugar is taking offense on the citations and allegations made by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agency regarding the company's workplace safety. Last week, OSHA issued Imperial Sugar an $8.8m fine , said to be the third largest in OSHA's history...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
China and biomass

Speaking of China again, it seems that biomass could answer (partially at least) two of the country's biggest problems: pollution and energy source. According to this study from AMBIO (a nonprofit publication of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), China could reduce pollution as much as 46-60...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008
California wants green floors

California's new 1% VOC-limit standards effective 2011 has driven JohnsonDiversey to reformulate its floor finish line Signature ultra. The company says the reformulated product has reduced VOC (volatile organic compounds) content by 40%. JohnsonDiversey is also reformulating 15 floor-finish products...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
Greenwashing doesn't wash

Goodyear found that out when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) forced the company to apologize to its customers for misleading them on the environmental benefits of Goodyear's Eagle LS2000 range of tires. Goodyear also has to offer partial refund of the tire's purchase...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008
Carbon Market: The good, the bad and the money

After finding some of the pros and cons of cap and trade carbon schemes in the US, several studies were recently published on the carbon market's global bottomline: How much should energy-intensive industries pay for compliance. According to market analyst Point Carbon , global carbon markets could...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
Nigeria energized by dust

Wood waste and sawdust could refuel Nigeria's sawmill industry. London-based Ravonergy is building a 14 megawatt biomass-based energy power plant that will utilize wood waste and sawdust generated from the country's saw mill industry. The sawmill industry in Ondo State -Nigeria, currently suffers...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-30-2008

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