oldephartte(in training): 9 April

The European Commission watered down some key parts of new rules on government aid aimed at encouraging production of energy from renewable sources, lessening the financial burden on heavy industries and reducing the scale of government ...

Renewable heat incentive offers homeowners money to switch from oil

The Guardian

The domestic renewable heat incentive, which was meant to launch in 2012 but has been repeatedly delayed, is the first scheme of its kind in the world, offering financial incentives for low carbon heating technologies including boilers that burn wood ...

Cheap Solar Power Is Fueling Global Renewable Energy Growth: Report

Huffington Post

The share of total global electricity production generated by renewable energy is climbing, mainly because solar photovoltaic systems are becoming less expensive, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations Environment Programme and ...

Commission unveils overhaul of renewable energy subsidies

European Voice

Member states will be allowed to subsidise energy-intensive industries in order to protect them from price rises resulting from increased renewable energy under new state-aid guidelines issued today (9 April) by the European Commission. Under existing ...

Human Habitat

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Everett metal finisher, Ecology settle hazardous waste penalty appeal

Access Washington

BELLEVUE – An Everett metal finisher will pay $24,000 to the Department of Ecology under an agreement to settle an appeal of a larger penalty issued last year for hazardous waste violations. Ecology fined Blue Streak Finishers, Ltd. $60,000 in Oct ...

Of Sharks and Men: An Expedition to Study Shark Ecology and Movement ...

National Geographic

A large school of bull sharks swim freely around us during a dive on Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Beqa, Fiji. (Photograph by Andy Mann). “At first, there were just two or three and they just circled us. Each day moving a little bit closer. We would ...

Oak ecology workshop to protect wildlife habitat

Swnews4u

“Oak Ecology in the Driftless Landscape” is a workshop being offered for all who are interested in learning to support the beneficial role of the oak trees in our area. The workshop April 26 from 9 a.m. until at least noon will be led by Armund Bartz ...

Farmer, Ecology settle water dispute

Capital Press

ROYAL CITY, Wash. — A Royal City farmer has agreed to drop an appeal and pay $40,000 of a $59,443 fine to resolve an irrigation dispute, the state Department of Ecology says. Farrah Wardenaar will be excused from the remaining $19,443 of the fine ...

Water Power

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Water Crisis Not Over After West Virginia Chemical Spill

WBUR

It's been called one of the most serious episodes of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. Four months after thousands of gallons of the coal-washing chemical MCHM spilled from an unregulated above-ground storage tank into the Elk River, many ...

Crews working to repair water main break on RM 2222 near MoPac

Austin American-Statesman

7:30 a.m. update: The Austin water utility has partially shut down a 20-inch water main running under RM 2222 while they attempt to determine exactly where a pipe broke that has part of the road shut down. Residents in the area may see their water ...

ALERT: Petersburg boil water alert still in effect

wtvr.com

UPDATE: “Petersburg residents affected by the water main break are being urged to continue to boil all drinking water until further notice,” Petersburg spokeswoman Joanne Williams said. “The water is being tested by the Appomattox River Water Authority ...

MURRIETA: Water line rupture closes California Oaks Road

Press-Enterprise (blog)

The rupture of 16-inch PVC water pipe on California Oaks Road in Murrieta on Wednesday, April 9 sent thousand of gallons of water rushing down the roadway, buckled the pavement, snarled traffic and could close a major east/west thoroughfare in the ...