Clean Energy Direct :: GHG Emissions
08.10.2010
The following summary of the Department of Defense’s contributions energy efficiency and use of renewable energy was provided by the Office of Energy Plans and Programs, which advises the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on operational energy... 08.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Hoping to fulfill a dream of building the “green factory of the future,” Advanced Electron Beams Director and CEO Mitch Tyson says his company will use funds from a federal grant to develop energy efficient approaches to removing volatile organic... 08.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In its third study on U.S. energy and national security since 2006, CNA’s Military Advisory Board has found that the nation’s current energy posture undermines economic security and poses an urgent threat to national security but, more... 08.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Coinciding with an independent report recommending a strong energy efficiency and renewable energy partnership between the departments of Defense and Energy, DoD and DOE signed a memorandum of understanding last week with the goal of accelerating clean energy... 07.20.2010
A new Department of Energy report on the economic impact of Recovery Act investments in advanced batteries and vehicles finds that for every dollar of the $2.4 billion in federal seed money, the private companies that have received the funding have matched it... 07.13.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In a move intended to promote aviation biofuels, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are heading up a consortium of airlines, airports and researchers in the Pacific Northwest with the goal of identifying what needs to be done to make the fuels commercially available... 07.13.2010
In its quarterly report on utility compliance with the state’s renewable portfolio standard, the California Public Utilities Commission said last month that the state’s three investor-owned utilities collectively obtained 15.4 percent of their... 06.29.2010
As part of its CLEEN—Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise—program, the Federal Aviation Administration last week award Honeywell a major research contract to develop mature technology for fuel burn reduction and to test aviation biofuels... 06.14.2010 | Tom Buis
For 40 years we have been dealing with the financial and environmental consequences of our addiction to oil. Now, in the midst of what is quickly turning into one of the worst ecological disasters in our nation’s history, some environmental groups are... 06.10.2010 | Sasha Lyutse and Nathanael Greene
Transitioning the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels toward low-carbon fuels is critical to breaking our dependence on oil and solving global warming. Low-carbon liquid fuels can and should be part of a comprehensive policy agenda to address these...
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