oldephartte(in training): Search returns for water and environment

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Search returns for water and environment

English: Renewable Energy jersey Noel Alanguilan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The campus of American Canyon High School relies on solar power and other renewable energy resources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Campus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Shell and BP alone eclipse renewable energy sector on access to ministers

The Guardian

Fossil fuel companies enjoy far greater access to UK government ministers than renewable energy companies or climate campaigns, an analysis by the Guardian has revealed. Shell, the fossil fuel multi-national, has had at least 112 meetings with ...

Strong Future Forecast for Renewable Energy

Scientific American

In its forward-looking report for the year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts renewable energy will be the fastest-growing power source through 2040. New investments in renewable energy rose from $9 billion in the first quarter of ...

Progress as Renewable Energy Matures

Wall Street Daily

What stood out in the UN report was the fact that, for the first time ever, new installations of carbon-free renewable power plants exceeded 100,000 megawatts of capacity. That's equal to the total installed nuclear generating capacity here in the ...

Renewable-energy opponents take new shots at N.C. requirements

Charlotte Business Journal (blog)

The bill also calls for reducing the size of renewable projects that qualify for standard contracts from utilities to 100 kilowatts. Current state regulations, reaffirmed this year by the N.C. Utilities Commission, allows projects of up to 5 megawatts ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Killing a country's ecology

The Hindu

The Expert Committee's report is possibly one of the best ever made on the fragile ecology of the Himalayas. It almost unanimously found that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) clearances were unreliable, wrongly prepared, made on the basis of false ...

Combining ecology and human needs, researchers assess sustainability of Baja ...

Phys.Org

Leslie and her team—anthropologists, economists, ecologists, fisheries scientists, geographers, and other social scientists—gathered data on 13 social and ecological variables for each of 12 regions around Baja California Sur. They developed a ...

3-D printed blossoms a growing tool for ecology

UW Today

3-D printing has been used to make everything from cars to medical implants. Now, University of Washington ecologists are using the technology to make artificial flowers, which they say could revolutionize our understanding of plant-pollinator ...

US Navy awards AICUZ and RAICUZ studies contract to Ecology and Environment

Naval Technology

Ecology and Environment (E & E) has been contracted to provide base development planning and engineering services for air installations compatible use zones (AICUZ) and range air installations compatible use zones (RAICUZ) studies to the Naval ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

California Water Reduction Plan Mostly Unchanged Before Vote

ABC News

State water regulators say they are not overhauling a contentious plan that orders each California community to reduce water use because of the drought. State Water Resources Control Board officials say the latest revision, being released Tuesday ...

US Government Recommends Lower Level of Fluoride in Water

Newsweek

For the first time in more than 50 years, the federal government has recommended lowering the level of fluoride in drinking water. Since 1962, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) suggested that public tap water contain between 0.7 and 1 ...

What a gas: Using water and air to run a car

CNNMoney

Researchers at Audi are making synthetic diesel fuel using only water and air. Miracle? No. Science. The German automaker announced it has created the first batch of liquid "e-diesel" at a research facility in Dresden. The clear fuel is produced ...

Mother, daughter rescued after car gets swept away by flood waters

WFAA

The daughter, 20, told officials she was driving her mother to work and didn't see the water over the road, according to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office. Rodgers says the woman tried to drive through Chambers Creek, but the water was too deep and swift.