Though natural gas extracted from shale is the fastest growing energy source for power plants in the U.S., shale gas is now facing fresh challenges, with the release of a new study suggesting the fuel’s carbon intensity is as high…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (in Pictures) | OnEarth
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A few years ago, writer Susan Freinkel started wondering how much plastic passed through her life. So she conducted a one-day experiment, recording each plastic-containing item she came in contact with. The tally: 196. They ranged from the obvious to…
PepsiCo’s Water-Saving Mission Flows Beyond Its Factories | GreenBiz
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When it comes to water issues, PepsiCo‘s fizzy drinks tend to get all the attention. But the company is also a huge manufacturer of snack foods. Its food operations, PepsiCo is finding, offer huge potential to save water — including going…
US Senator Bingaman aims to jump-start CCS with a bill addressing liability | Global CCS Institute
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All but lost in the din in the effort to pass a federal budget, a bi-partisan senate bill has re-surfaced that breathes fresh hope for U.S. federal support for carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS. Introduced on March 31, and…
Capturing carbon with sawdust | Global CCS Institute
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Dead plants may work as well as living plants in mopping up carbon dioxide from admissions, a duo of Spanish scientists has found. Reporting for the Royal Society of Chemistry on Mar 18, Yaundi Li writes that sawdust is showing…
GE Invests $600M to Build Largest US Solar Plant | GreenBiz
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Looking back it’s easy to pinpoint the moment the U.S. wind industry came of age: April 12, 2002, when General Electric won Enron Wind Corp.’s wind assets in a bankruptcy auction. The conglomerate’s $358 million bid has since mushroomed into…