01/Jul 2008 | Buyers beware: Supplements can be beneficial, but athletes must do homework | Scott Herkes, back, is the owner of Max Muscle Sports Nutrition in Bettendorf. Herkes, who opened the franchise of the California-based business six months ago, says, Athletes push themselves to the ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | We expect a six-fold growth in revenues in next two years | Cairn India, a unit of UK-based Carin Energy, will have the potential to account for 20 per cent of India's oil production in the next decade once oil starts flowing from its three fields in Rajasthan... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Are Gas Prices the Only Issue in Senate Race? | July 1, 2008 Judging from his campaign rhetoric, one would think that former Gov. Jim Gilmore has seized upon one issue and one issue only in his race for the U. Twice in the past week, the Republ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | U.S. National Research Council Picks RIT Professor for Transportation Study Group | A Rochester Institute of Technology professor was invited to sit on a prestigious U. National Research Council committee to study ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Nationa... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Regulators say yes to purchase of Aquila | Missouri regulators on Tuesday approved Great Plains Energy Inc. in a deal that would reshape the region’s electric utility market.The 2-1 decision by the Missouri Public Service Commission remo... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Austin moves toward greener fleet | Austin Fire Department firefighter and recruiter James Doyle, here outside Station No. 4 in Central Austin, is one of the workers using the city's 151 hybrid vehicles. He drives a Toyota Prius when he... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | China struggling to meet energy, pollution goals | With the economy still growing too fast, the service sector accounting for a declining share of GDP and the proportion of high-tech manufacturing in the country's value-added industrial output falling... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Reopening of forest is insane | Well, our merchants and Chamber of Commerce, together with our spineless politicians and U. Forest Service, have succumbed to the pressures of [economics] to open the Lincoln National Forest - all so ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Asian markets trade mostly lower on economic concerns | RTTNews) - The stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region were trading mostly lower on Wednesday, despite Wall Street's moderate gains overnight on the back of a better than expected report on manuf... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Power Q & A | Fin24.com chats to energy expert, Professor Robbie Lindsay about South Africa's energy alternatives. Lindsay lectures at the University of the Western Cape's physics department. So what are the altern... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Commissioners looking at tight year ahead | The McKean County Commissioners will be taking an early look at budget projections in what appears to be a tight year for finances. On Tuesday, Commissioner Al Pingie said the commissioners will be as... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | GM Offers 18 FFVs for MY2009 | DETROIT General Motors will offer 18 flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) in model-year 2009. The number of E-85 compatible vehicle models available in 2009 is a sharp increase from the past following the ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Hong Kong shares open lower on oil price worries, in line with Asian weakness | Hong Kong shares opened lower on Wednesday, tracking early falls in regional bourses as investors continued to worry over the extent of the impact of soaring oil prices and a slowing U. 'Rising oil pr... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | 'Dream of Green' explore nature with Crippens | Newsboy photo/Georgia Purdy NATURALIST CATHERINE CRIPPENS teaches first and second graders to examine a small area to see what plant and insect communities are there. (Left to right) Alyssa Coker, Gif... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Recovery Parks, Free Geeks and Plasma: Vancouver Debates Zero Waste | Julia Steinberger July 1, 2008 1:04 PM Can we imagine a day when, having sorted out our recyclables and compost-ables, then responsibly earmarked our "still perfectly good" stuff for reuse, we'll have... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Georgia Judge Halts Construction of Coal-Fired Power Plant - A Sign of More Battles Over Coal? | In what is considered as a first-time application from a judge of the April 2007 Supreme Court decision ruling industrial CO . 2 emissions as a pollutant, Fulton County judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moo... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Oil shale development hampered by moratorium, say Utah senators | Utah's senators said today. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, supporting a Bush administration proposal to enhance U. fossil fuel energy production, said during a news conference at the Utah Capitol that t... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Senators seek to ban foreign waste | 8:50 PM-America's landfills for low-level nuclear waste should be conserved for America's waste, according to a new, bipartisan bill to be introduced next week in the U. The bill targets efforts by Sa... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | California Air Resources Board Releases GHG Emissions Reduction Plan | GHG reductions from the transportation sector account for the largest sectoral reduction in the ARB Scoping Plan. The California Air Resources Board released its Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan tha... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Spain-Based Repsol, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Use IBM Technology to Tap Into New Frontiers | Spain-Based Repsol, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Use IBM Technology to Tap Into New Frontiers of Oil Exploration . Joint Research Project Uses Latest Cell Broadband Engine Processor to Reach Record... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Milford to spend for cleaner energy | MILFORD The city is preparing to put its money where its mouth is, so to speak, by committing to spend more money for cleaner energy. The Clean Energy Task Force is reviewing a contract with Sterlin... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Researchers from ORNL Received Recognition in Nanotechnology | Researchers at the U. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Thin-Film Technology Poised to Take Significant Market Share | After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | High-voltage incentive batteries | Tim Hussin / The Rocky Matt Keyser, a senior engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, lifts a casing off a nickel-metal hydride battery. Tim Hussin / The Rocky Kurt Jensen, prin... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Try out solar water heating | During the summer of 2006, I did an evaluation to determine why I wasn't seeing the type of savings I expected from the tripling of my wall insulation in my energy-efficient retrofit for my house. In ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Family relies on wind, solar solution | JUNEAU - As energy costs continue to go sky high, many consumers are looking for ways to reduce the cost of consuming energy. Jay and Eileen Beedle have found that using solar and wind power is feasib... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | NDP enlists public in power politics | Nova Scotia s New Democrats are collecting names on a petition that channels public concern about rising electricity prices. Not incidentally, the Official Opposition also hopes to skewer the Conserva... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | How GE Gives Away Money | Some exciting news today from Mars, the giant candy maker: The company is going to spend $10 million to decode the genome of the cacao tree. The goal is to guarantee the company a long-term supply of ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Redesigned milk jug not popular with all consumers | NORTH CANTON, Ohio A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are cheaper to ship and better for the environment, the mi... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Missouri Schools | Missouri Schools on Missouri City Goes 100% Wind Power. on Aesthetically Pleasing SolarSave Roofing Tiles. Following the opening of a new 5 MW four-turbine wind farm last week, Rock Port, a town of ... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Western governors hope to sway future energy policy | TETON VILLAGE, WYOMING - The nation's Western governors are embarking on a plan to draft a national energy policy, saying the country needs direction and leadership on the issue. Governors participati... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | State Senators Push to Lessen Electric Bill Shock | PPL, Met-Ed Show Biggest Jump in Electric Shutoffs . Electric Bills Going Up, Just a Question of How Much. Twelve years ago, the electric industry in Pennsylvania was deregulated and rates were cappe... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Energy Consuming Industries Developing too Fast in China | Industries with high energy consumption and emissions are developing too fast in China, along with the quick economic growth, the State Council, or Cabinet, warned on Tuesday. The traditional industry... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Pentair, GE form global residential water filtration joint venture | Pentair, GE form global residential water filtration joint venture TREVOSE, PA & MINNEAPOLIS, MN, June 30, 2008 -- Pentair Inc. and GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of the General Electric Comp... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Airlines say fuel surcharges rise not to bring much benefit | Chinese airlines, currently suffering a sluggish aviation market, said the increase in jet fuel surcharges, effective as of Tuesday, was not expected to bring much benefit for them. From July 1, passe... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | ConocoPhillips to Collaborate with C2B2 on Biofuels; Algae Project First | ConocoPhillips signed a $5 million, multi-year sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) (earlier post), a research center of the Colorado Renewable Ene... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | New sources of energy | Right now, which ONE of the following do you think should be a more important priority for this country: protecting the environment, or developing new sources of energy?" Options rotated. "Right now,... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Oil still trading near record highs | World oil traded near record high levels around $US142 today after the president of OPEC talked of uncertainty surrounding future investment in energy facilities that could boost crude output. New Yor... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Time to clean up our act | Stephane Dion realized before presenting his carbon tax proposal there would likely be an outcry from some segments of the population. However, he made it clear that this proposal is not about his own... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Shudders Through Solstice, Opportunity Shoots Cape Verde Base | Mars Exploration Rover Credit: NASA/JPL/Maas Digital The Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) celebrated a significant milestone in June as they "trudged" through the very depths of their third Martian wint... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Iraq Opens Oil Fields To Global Bidding: 60% Increase In Output Sought | BAGHDAD, June 30 -- Iraq's government invited foreign firms Monday to help boost the production of the country's major oil fields, beginning a global competition for access to the world's third-larges... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | ConocoPhillips Announces Partnership With Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels | ConocoPhillips announced today it has signed a $5 million, multiyear sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, a research center of the Colorado Renewable Ene... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Green investing gains traction in 2007 | Home. As the world community has grown more attentive to environmental concerns, such as global warming and climate change, the presence of related investment opportunities has greatly increased, driv... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Water-Energy Links in Central Asia | Last week, Johannes Linn argued that the governments of the region with the assistance of the international community need to prepare urgently for a bad year of food and energy shortages. In the longe... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Oil trades near record levels in Asia | 22:10:15 EDTSINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) - World oil traded near record highs around $142 Wednesday after the president of OPEC talked of uncertainty surrounding future investment in energy facilitie... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Dynegy s Georgia plant cancelled! | July 1st, 2008 After the bad news about the Wise County Virginia plant being granted it s permits and beginning construction that very same day - it sure was good to hear that not everyone has drunk t... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Grand Central Terminal | Part of the ceiling of the central hall of Grand Central Terminal From a recent New York Times F." feature:An astronomy-minded friend told me there s a way to study the sun inside Grand Cent. An astr... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Way cleared for Black Hills Corp.-Aquila deal | The Missouri Public Service Commission approved a $1.7 billion buyout between two Kansas City utilities on Tuesday, which clears the way for Black Hills Corp. of Rapid City to acquire four natural gas... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | "Will Canada Last?" | The Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement: NAFTA Plus Homeland Security. [Vancouver] August 20: Oppose the Security & Prosperity Partnership Agreement (TODAY!) . The Militarization and Annexat... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Bryan Files for Injunction Against CS Over Landfill Agency | Bryan to File for Injunction Against College Station Over BVSWMA (6pm) Bryan Press Conference: Statement Bryan Press Conference: Questions Bryan City Manager on WTAW Radio (07/01 AM) . The City of Br... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Some New SEO Services Not So "Special" | Many SEO firms are running out of ways to draw in large clients, especially when so many offer little to no value over the next firm. This dilemma has led to growth in the "special services" sector of... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Eat for the Earth | Thank you for caring for our blue planet! You can make a difference by being an ocean minded consumer. Where our food and other products come from and how they are produced does affect the health of o... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Tokyo shares edge lower ahead of US data, ECB meeting - UPDATE | TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japanese shares edged lower in early trade on Wednesday as investors looked past Wall Street's gains overnight, exercising caution ahead of the release of U. jobs report an... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Ban On Trans Fats Begins In New York | Suspected Cop Killer's Jail Death Being Probed A 19-year-old man charged with first-degree murder was found dead while in police custody in Prince George's County, Md. Washington Post reporter Aaron D... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Oil trades in Asia near record levels | Oil trades in Asia near record levels Agence France-Presse First Posted 10:02:00 07/02/2008 SINGAPORE -- World oil traded near record high levels at around $142 Wednesday after the president of OPEC... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Letters to the editor politics | Republican control is at fault for Idaho's problems I do not belong to any political party. My attitude is - and always has been - a pox on all their houses. But as I start my seventh decade, one thin... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | The end of Big Oil? | Story Highlights. Cheap oil has gone forever and further exploration just puts off the inevitable . High oil prices are hard on everyone, especially the poor and most vulnerable . Would it be a good t... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | IMF braces for deluge of loan requests | WASHINGTON Amid echoes of the 1970s, the world's lender of last resort is bracing for a deluge of new business as food and fuel inflation pushes some of the planet's most vulnerable economies to the... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Universities find it pays to go green | Asia plants almost half of the developing world's maize crop. Three-quarters of the maize consumed in South Asia is consumed directly as food, but in East Asia most maize is used for animal feed. (Sou... Read » |
01/Jul 2008 | Clean energy investments rose 60% to $148 billion in 2007 | New investment in renewables and energy efficiency surpassed $148 billion in 2007, rising 60 percent rise from 2006, according to an analysis iss |