The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' budget would provide $4.9 billion for commercial navigation, flood and coastal storm damage reduction, and aquatic system restoration.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the increase is due to the agency's significant role in climate change monitoring and adaptation, energy, ecosystems, and other priorities.
Agency would apply funds to its core priorities of cleaning the air, land and water while growing the green economy and strengthening enforcement.
Greenroads rating system seeks to recognize companies using sustainable methods and provide a catalog of ideas for greener practices.
DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol, University of Tennessee, and Genera Energy facility will convert agricultural residue and bioenergy crops into ethanol.
Amazon power project moves Brazil closer to emissions goal with plans to install cleaner burning gas engines.
The water community will explore the future of safe water, gain insight into cutting-edge research and best practices, and experience the latest products and services available.
This worldwide market for electronic waste recovery growth represents money generated through reclamation of valuable materials from e-scrap.
Company founders want to spread the impact of their technologies to reduce energy waste in personal use computers.
The research will evaluate treatment technology and California and other state guidelines and try to determine methods of disinfection suitable for nonpotable water.
Researchers suggest the environmental impact of algae production could be reduced by using wastewater in the process; the Algae Biomass Organization disagrees with some of the conclusions.
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are trying to establish the role of compounds that absorb infrared energy in global warming.
The National Academy of Sciences should limit itself to the science of the conservation plan and the environmental needs of the Bay Delta, according to the Environmental Defense Fund.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Water Replenishment District agree that imported water supplies are expected to be problematic in 2010.
The study included 3,966 adults 20 or more years of age whose blood serum was sampled between 1999 and 2006 for PFOA and other perfluoroalkyl acid compounds.
EPA has added chemical, petroleum and coal, and electric power facilities to its list of industries that are responsible for assuring their financial ability to take care of cleanups.
- By Sloane Anders Wildman, Perkins Coie LLP