WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2011.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the greatest number of energy-efficient buildings that earned EPA’s Energy Star certification in 2010. The list of 25 cities is headed by Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Chicago; New York; Atlanta;[Read More…]

If you have children on, in or around your property, growing the lawn organically is the only safe method. Safe Lawns By Paul Tukey WITH THE LAWN CARE NATION fixated on the so-called four-step plan perpetuated in the past generation by the chemical fertilizer and pesticide industry, one of the[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2011.  Across the country, household leaks waste more than 1 trillion gallons of water per year – enough to supply the water needs of Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles combined. Easily corrected household leaks can increase homeowners’ water bills by 12 percent. To help consumers find and repair[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 March 2011 – The potentially disastrous decline in bees, a vital pollinating element in food production for the growing global population, is likely to continue unless humans profoundly change their ways, from the use of insecticides to air pollution, according to a United Nations report released today. “The[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.   The oil slick, seen from the window of the Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft. Best known as one of NOAA’s “hurricane hunters,” the plane was outfitted with chemistry instruments for a mission in California during the spring of 2010. NOAA diverted it to the Gulf for[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  The following remarks are attributed to Lawrence J. Gumbiner, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development represents an important opportunity for the international community to advance sustainable and inclusive economic development. The green economy offers a path to[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship today announced the opening of its $12 million i6 Green Challenge in partnership with the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and Commerce’s[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the launch of two new fellowship programs designed to attract the country’s best and brightest scientific minds to work on advanced clean energy technologies.  The two fellowship programs – the Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and the SunShot Initiative[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011.  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy finalized a nearly $50 million loan to The Vehicle Production Group LLC.  The loan will support the development of the six-passenger MV-1, a purpose-built wheelchair accessible vehicle that will run on compressed natural gas. [Read More…]