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Taken separately, gasoline and diesel fuel both bring a unique set of advantages and disadvantages to internal combustion engines. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have therefore seen no reason why the two should not be combined in their experiments, in an attempt to harvest the best of both world... |
4 August 2009
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Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has just announced the first of its PowerEdge server models to comply with the new specifications of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star. According to the company, which worked closely with the EPA to develop the new energy-efficiency specification, users of the company�... |
26 June 2009
05:23 GMT |
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According to a growing consent among academics in the United States, the country is ill-equipped to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, in terms of protecting both the environment and the safety and health off its citizens. That is to say, the existing agencies, far from being incapable, simply find i... |
28 April 2009
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to its senses following its period of submission to political will during the Bush administration, and has finally put all the permits of mountaintop mining operators on hold, pending further investigation. As Bush left the White House, he granted his personal f... |
25 March 2009
07:38 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a very important step in fighting global warming recently, when it forwarded a proposed finding to the White House, which stated that climate change and the greenhouse effect were threats to America's financial and health security. If the proposal is approved by ... |
24 March 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Breaking loose from its wrong, Bush-era policies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to ask all companies in the United States to reveal exactly how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit in the atmosphere. This is a first for the federal agency, which has been tied up by the previ... |
11 March 2009
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On Tuesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a set of rules that determined the maximum amount of radiation allowed at the Yucca Mountain nuclear disposal site complex for the next 1 million years, although planning so far ahead may seem pointless to some. The current allowed radiation limits were ... |
18 February 2009
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The House and Senate approved on Friday the final stimuls bill, which awards more than $1.5 billion to agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the National Park Service (NPS) and the Forest Service for various ongoing projects, as well as for the beginning of cleaning operations in various parts of the ... |
16 February 2009
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
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Over the course of his term, President George W. Bush seemed to be spearheading a crusade to destroy the American environment, despite serious efforts on behalf of several organizations to stop him. He went on and removed regulations, changed decisions, and eliminated the necessity of scientific opinions from various... |
7 January 2009
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The failure to measure its sulfur content in some gas streams generated by burning natural gas took its toll on the Exxon Mobil oil company, as officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the firm would have to pay in excess of $6.1 million in civ... |
18 December 2008
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it was seeking to revise regulations set in place last June, which forced refineries to be very careful about the amounts of emissions they pumped into the atmosphere. Following the lobby of several major oil associations, EPA seeks to give companies ... |
13 December 2008
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Here are just a few of the most important achievements that environmental organizations managed to obtain or lead to during 2008. The list of successes is much longer, but the current row of accomplishments only highlights the most important or groundbreaking of them, as seen by Planetsave. The Environmental P... |
10 December 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Last week, the Bush administration again favored the fossil fuel industry over the environment, when it allowed for new legislation, regulating the amount of debris that mountaintop mining companies could throw away into adjacent streams in valleys. As soon as the decision was announced, environmental groups started ... |
8 December 2008
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The investigative arm of Congress announced on Friday that more governmental control was needed in the manufacturing and distribution of genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in the nation's crops. The number of accidents involving modified organisms has been fairly low over the last years, but the Government Acc... |
8 December 2008
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With only one more month in office, the Bush administration seems bent on destroying the US environment and ecosystems thoroughly, as proven by the recent pressures the former president has made on the Supreme Court, to allow the country's power plants to continue sucking billions of gallons of cooling waters, w... |
5 December 2008
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The Bush administration seems to thoroughly lack common sense in its decision-making process, as evidenced by the fact that, in the last few weeks, more environment-damaging bills were passed than during the entire duration of its office. The latest proposal, which was already accepted by the Environmental Protection... |
3 December 2008
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The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is forced by a Supreme Court decision to start regulating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of all states, under the new Cleaner Air Act bill. Its proposal for the state of Texas was met with extreme hostility by Governor Rick Perry, who said yesterday that implementing the me... |
26 November 2008
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On January 28th, 2008, Intel reached comprehensive investment in 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy. This fact makes the company the single largest corporate acquirer of green power in the United States. Intel leads in a challenge issued in December 2006 by EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), i... |
31 January 2008
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It seems that people have started thinking "green" in the past years, with the demonstration against forest reclamation and against cars that consume a man's weight in liters of fuel every day. Hybrid cars are starting to catch on, solar panels have been widely accepted as an alternative, recycling is starting t... |
27 November 2007
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Microsoft Virtual Earth is a mission-critical geospatial and mapping platform and in this context it should be no surprise that the U.S. government is interested in the product. The Redmond company has applauded a new agreement inked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the licensing of Virtual Ea... |
13 September 2007
11:17 GMT |
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Most hardware manufacturers and vendors, from processors to hard disk drives manufacturers, are claiming that their products are going green, which means better energy efficiency while keeping performance at a high level. While this may very well be the truth, the high power to performance ratios are not enough to st... |
6 August 2007
05:42 GMT |
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It looks as if the entire computer manufacturing industry is having a collective green "fit". It is not something really new, some power regulations were installed long ago, but not until now were they so closely observed and respected. Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of a greener and environment frien... |
26 July 2007
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A big step forward from HP is staying in line with rules and regulations, and one of those is the ENERGY STAR 4.0 specification. It is set to hit the market on July 20th, 2007, and being something set by the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), you don't want to mess with these guys. Theref... |
29 March 2007
06:13 GMT |
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While playing the role of top dog in the x86 processor industry, Intel still keeps a down to Earth attitude regarding protecting the environment and trying to keep this world as clean as possible. It has done this by working and developing a new implementation guide in conjunction with the United States Environmental... |
20 March 2007
11:35 GMT |
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