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UNTHA TR Series shredder installed at new HW Martin RDF facility
HW Martin’s new RDF plant at Northampton is the latest recycling facility for the Derbyshire-based Martin Group which employees 500 people and has been providing waste recycling and management services to the public and private sectors for over 30 years. Their lead supplier, OKLM Recycling Technology, is a leading design-and-build plant builder specialising in Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs), waste treatment plants and RDF plants and has wo... [more]
Social housing residents in North Tyneside save on their energy bills following green refurbishments
Residents living in Shiremoor, North Tyneside are set to save more than £19,000 collectively on their energy bills and reduce their carbon emissions by over 100 tonnes in the next year, thanks to a package of green refurbishments by Kier North Tyneside. The scheme to improve the energy efficiency of social housing involves large-scale refurbishments to almost 50 homes in the area with a view to rolling the project out across the remaining prop... [more]
Gasrec signs deal with GCS to create UK infrastructure for sustainable biomethane vehicle fuel
Fuelling vehicles with sustainable, UK-sourced, low carbon fuel is set to become a commercially viable option for fleet operators. Gasrec, Europe’s first commercial producer of Liquid Biomethane (LBM), has signed a deal with Gas Container Services (GCS), in which GCS will provide refuelling facilities to commercial fleet owners for Gasrec’s LBM. It will also transport Gasrec’s biomethane fuel round the UK from Gasrec’s processing plant in Albury,... [more]
Envision Solar's LifeVillage offers rapid deployment of solar-integrated buildings to provide shelter and clean energy in times of crises
Envision Solar International, Inc. has announced its newest solar innovation, the LifeVillage™, which offers rapid and widespread deployment of safe, system-built, solar-integrated buildings that provide shelter and clean energy in times of crises. Using efficient solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, Envision Solar’s LifeVillage offers clean energy and durable steel-framed buildings where traditional electrical power generation and the associated t... [more]
Unitel Technologies focusses on the production of algal fatty acids for making biofuels from microalgae
Currently, most of the proposed methods in the biofuels-from-algae space require the extraction of immobilized oil from algal biomass. However, regardless of the oil extraction technique used, and some are more efficient than others, getting to the oil is usually very expensive in terms of capital and energy costs. In some instances, the amount of energy consumed to extract the oil can actually exceed the energy value of the end product. Unite... [more]
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Applications accepted for charitable-work grants
The William S. Walton Charitable Trust is accepting grant applications through Sept. 15.
Bahamas suspends new oil exploration licenses
The Bahamas' government says it will not consider new oil exploration or drilling applications for the vast archipelago's waters until a "very stringent" environmental framework can be put in place.
Power plants, residents weigh in on coal ash plan
More than 100 speakers signed up to comment Thursday on whether the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate the disposal of coal ash under rules for hazardous waste.
Judge orders surface mine cleanup
A federal judge has ordered Patriot Coal Corp. to spend millions of dollars to clean up selenium pollution at two surface coal mines in West Virginia. Environmental groups said it was the first time a court had demanded restrictions on selenium, a trace mineral commonly discharged from Appalachian surface mines, where the tops of mountains are blown away to expose coal.
PerkinElmer Sells Unit to Private Equity Firm
PerkinElmer (PKI) said late Tuesday it has agreed to sell its illumination and detection solutions business to Veritas Capital Fund for $500 million in cash. The unit includes 3,000 employees and 14 manufacturing facilities, making custom-designed specialty lighting and sensor components, subsystems and integrated solutions serving applications within health, environmental, and security segments.
NC Beautiful Accepting Applications for the 2010 Annual Azalea Celebration
Triangle - RALEIGH, NC – September 1, 2010 – NC Beautiful has announced that it is accepting applications for the 25th Annual Azalea Celebration.
County wants second look at disposal permit
SEGUIN — Guadalupe County commissioners on Tuesday approved sending to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality a motion requesting reconsideration of an application filed by Apache Disposal Inc. located off Interstate 10 in western Guadalupe County.
Cisco To Acquire Smart Grid Monitoring Tech Company Arch Rock
Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire privately-held Arch Rock , which specializes in IP-based wireless sensor network technology with a focus on energy and environmental monitoring and Smart Grid applications. Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
Cummins Power Generation, Inc., Provides Electrical Generator for Major Demonstration Project at the EERC
GRAND FORKS, N.D.----The Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota, in partnership with Cummins Power Generation, Inc., has begun a project to demonstrate the production of heat and power from high-moisture biomass.
EBay, Facebook, Vivendi, General Motors, Ford: Intellectual Property
EBay.com Inc. ’s PayPal Unit was sued by an Israeli company for infringing a patent that covers electronic currency and ways to make payments over a network.
