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U.S. Must Pursue Low Carbon Development

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

Todd Stern, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change, testifies at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?”Stern says that developing countries will be resistant to setting emissions targets because they fe ...

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Senate Climate Bill May be Reshaped by Coal States

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

Senators from states heavily reliant on coal-fired electricity want the climate bill to apportion more free carbon permits to their states, reports Reuters.Without such changes, electricity consumers in certain states would have to pay unfairly higher rates, a group of 14 Democratic Senators stat ...

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Idaho Studies Feasibility of Co-generation, CNG

Posted by Environmental Leader on 13/11/2009

Idaho is building steam towards emerging forms of alternative energy with recent moves by a beet processor into investigating a cogeneration facility and a waste company’s use of compressed natural gas to run its fleet.Amalgamated Sugar Co., Idaho’s Office of Energy Resources and Idah ...

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Best-in-Class Manufacturers Cut Energy Use by 24%, Study Shows

Posted by Environmental Leader on 12/11/2009

Best-in-class manufacturers typically reduce their energy consumption by 24 percent compared to laggard companies that increase their energy use by 6 percent, according to new benchmarking research from Aberdeen Group.Other findings reveal that best-in-class companies also reduce their emissions ...

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U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta Fuels Fleet with Biodiesel

Posted by Environmental Leader on 12/11/2009

U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta claims it is the first major foodservice distributor in Georgia to fuel its entire delivery fleet with biodiesel. The distributor is using B5 fuel, a 5-percent blend of diesel made from vegetable oils, animal fats or recycled restaurant greases, to run its 185 tractor-tra ...

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