The Web site helps participants in seven states find alternatives to the disposal of valuable materials.
A University of Missouri professor and colleagues have developed a biomass cultivation model for a proposed 50-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant in Southern California.
Cascade Sierra Solutions says 59 truck owners have turned in pre-1994 trucks for a $5,000 scrap credit and about 85 percent of the trucks are being replaced.
University of Maryland and Baylor University ecologists may have discovered a lower ecological "tipping point" at which species are threatened.
A new Web site provides a platform for companies to list unwanted chemicals and to negotiate their exchange.
Agencies seek to meet National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency goals five years earlier than originally envisioned.
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.
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.
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.
“Today’s settlement sets the most stringent limit for sulfur dioxide emissions ever imposed on a coal-fired power plant in a federal settlement,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.