SPRINGFIELD – The State Energy Office at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today released program guidelines for electric and gas rebates through its Illinois Energy Now program. The Illinois Energy Now program assists communities and public schools in funding energy efficiency projects, and provides DCEO with[Read More…]
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Unusual Earthquake Gave Japan Tsunami Extra Punch, Say Stanford Scientists
This diagram shows the March 11 fault motion sequence. 1. Rupture of the fault plane begins at the epicenter. 2. Rupture travels westward, down the fault plane towards Honshu. The island suffers violent shaking for 40 seconds. 3. The upward sloping east side of the fault plane begins to rupture,[Read More…]
NASA-Funded Scientists Make Lunar Watershed Discovery
Moffett Field, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. Data from these newly-discovered lunar melt inclusions indicate the water content of lunar magma[Read More…]
NASA’S Hubble Finds Rare ‘Blue Straggler’ Stars In Milky Way’s Hub
Blue straggler stars. (NASA) Washington-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy’s bulge. Blue stragglers are so named because they seemingly lag behind in the aging process, appearing younger[Read More…]
Spitzer Sees Crystal ‘Rain’ in Outer Clouds of Infant Star
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope detected tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Toledo Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space[Read More…]
Juno Solar Panels Complete Testing
Technicians at Astrotech’s payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. stow solar array #2 against the body of NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light[Read More…]
NOAA: Endangered Species Listing for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Not Warranted
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2011. After an extensive scientific review, NOAA announced today that Atlantic bluefin tuna currently do not warrant species protection under the Endangered Species Act. NOAA has committed to revisit this decision by early 2013, when more information will be available about the effects of the Deepwater Horizon[Read More…]
Pakistan and Queensland Floods, Will They Become More Regular Events
United Kingdom–(ENEWSPF)–26 May 2011. Dramatic climate swings behind both last year’s Pakistan flooding and this year’s Queensland floods in Australia are likely to continue as the world gets warmer, scientists predict. Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds have discovered that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the sloshing[Read More…]
Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries Launch Effort to Improve Implementation of the Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2011. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Service have launched a joint effort to identify and implement administrative changes to the Endangered Species Act aimed at accelerating recovery of imperiled species, enhancing on-the-ground conservation delivery,[Read More…]
EPA, DOT Unveil the Next Generation of Fuel Economy Labels
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2011. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today are unveiling new fuel economy labels that will help consumers take advantage of the increased efficiency standards achieved under the Obama Administration that will save families money at the pump starting this year. The new[Read More…]
