oldephartte(in training): 27 Jan

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

27 Jan - Enviro Returns

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Barriers to renewable energy in Michigan could affect state's economic future ...

MLive.com

LANSING, MI – A series of roadblocks are preventing Michigan from taking full advantage of its significant potential for renewable energy, according to a report released by the Institute for Energy Innovation on Monday. Those roadblocks could translate ...

UAE & France Announce Partnership To Jointly Fund Renewable Energy Projects

CleanTechnica

France will join the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide low-cost finance to renewable energy projects in developing countries across the world. The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and France's L'Agence Francaise de Developpement will jointly ...

Mahindra to expand renewables business amid India's clean energy push

Reuters

The renewable energy unit, which builds solar power projects and offers off-grid power solutions, was formed in 2011 and is currently one of the smaller businesses of the $17 billion autos-to-technology conglomerate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ...

Modi Shifts on Climate Change With India Renewables Goal

Bloomberg

“This announcement builds on the recent progress on climate made between the U.S. and China,” said Manish Bapna, executive vice president of the World Resources Institute. “In setting a national renewable energy target, India will boost its economy and ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Department of Wildlife Ecology officially recognizes new name

The Maine Campus

The Department of Wildlife Ecology has officially changed its name to the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology. The new name, which was made official last September, was chosen in order to better reflect the Department's mission, ...

Ecology and Everett aircraft supplier settle $28000 penalty

Access Washington

EVERETT – An Everett aerospace electronic systems company will pay $6,000 to the Department of Ecology under an agreement to settle an appeal of a larger penalty. Ecology fined AvtechTyee $28,000 in January 2014 for unsafe handling and disposal of ...

GU scholars must speak out for Mopa's sensitive ecology: GFDO

Times of India

(GFDO) has urged Goa university scholars to speak out on the proposed Mopa international airport being constructed in an eco-sensitive zone and questioned the silence of environment minister Alina Saldanha on the degradation of the ecology of Goa.

British court unfreezes accounts of Yanukovych-era ecology minister Zlochevsky

Kyiv Post

22, oil and gas company Burisma Holding Ltd. issued a news release saying that a British court dropped the criminal charges against Ukraine's ex-Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky for lack of evidence. However, the investigation is continuing ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

About 12000 in West Virginia Without Water Due to Spill

ABC News

A diesel fuel spill has left about 12,000 people in southeastern West Virginia without drinking water. The city of Lewisburg says an estimated 3,975 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into a tributary of the Greenbrier River late Friday night when a tanker ...

Service restored after water main break

WKYC-TV

BRUNSWICK -- Cleveland Water customers now have their water pressure and service restored after a water main break near Pearl and Boston Roads. Customers in Brunswick and Strongsville were the most affected. A boil Alert is NOT in effect at this time.

Water Works talks about plan to file lawsuit against 3 counties

KCCI Des Moines

Under the EPA Safe Drinking Water Standard, nitrate levels are supposed to be at 10mg/L. Stowe said recent testing has shown the levels as high as 72mg/L in water being treated before entering the drinking water system. Stowe said things must change in ...

Need water? Flint groups collect 600 cases, plan distribution this week

MLive.com

FLINT, MI -- About 600 cases of bottled water have been collected through two Flint organizations and distribution to those in need will start Wednesday, Jan. 28. Mike Sargent, owner of Sargent Title Company in Flint, said water donations are being ...