SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2010. The State Energy Office at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is announcing a special lighting sale for public sector buildings through its Illinois Energy Now program. The federal government has mandated that T12 lamps be phased out of production in 2012. Approximately 30[Read More…]
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Energy Department Completes Cool Roof Installation on DC Headquarters Building to Save Money by Saving Energy
Washington–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2010. Secretary Steven Chu today announced the completion of a new cool roof installation on the Department of Energy’s Headquarters West Building. There was no incremental cost to adding the cool roof as part of the roof replacement project and it will save taxpayers $2,000 every year in building[Read More…]
U.S. and Indonesian Scientists Find Biodiversity Runs Deep in Sulawesi Sea
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2010. New submarine volcanoes, a large hydrothermal field with a thriving exotic animal ecosystem and areas rich with deep-sea ocean animals are among the discoveries reported today by U.S. and Indonesian scientists who explored the largely unknown deep Sulawesi Sea last summer off the coast of Indonesia.[Read More…]
Haiti: UN Calls on Candidates in Disputed Poll to Use Legal Means and Avoid Violence
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–13 December 2010 – With a three-day window opening today for candidates to formally lodge complaints in Haiti’s disputed elections, the United Nations and its partners have called on all concerned to use these legal means and to urge their supporters to avoid further violence. A communiqué issued in[Read More…]
Haiti: UN Security Council Calls on All Sides to End Post-Electoral Violence
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 December 2010 – The Security Council today called on all sides in Haiti to refrain from further violence in the dispute over preliminary results from last month’s first round of presidential and legislative elections. In a press statement following a briefing from Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain LeRoy,[Read More…]
43 Environmental Projects Receive TogetherGreen Innovation Grants
New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2010. Restoration of a wildlife sanctuary damaged by the Gulf oil spill, conservation internships for urban teenagers, and promotion of sustainable ranching are only three of the 43 projects in 27 states that will receive a total of nearly $1.1 million in the latest round of[Read More…]
35,000 New Species ‘Sitting in Cupboards’
GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–10 December 2010. Of the estimated 70,000 species of flowering plants yet to be described by scientists, more than half may already have been collected but are lying unknown and unrecognised in collections around the world, a new study suggests. A lack of resources for collections of plant specimens[Read More…]
Justice Department Charges Seventh Individual for Allegedly Filing Fraudulent Claims for Oil Spill Compensation
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2010. A woman was indicted today in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for compensation due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other individuals were charged this week in Alabama, Michigan and Mississippi for fraud related to oil spill compensation claims, in addition[Read More…]
Haiti: Ban Appeals for End to Violence After Election Results Announced
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–8 December 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for an end to violence in Haiti following the announcement of preliminary election results in a country that has already been ravaged this year by a devastating earthquake and a raging cholera epidemic. “A peaceful solution to the current situation[Read More…]
Report: Dirty Industries Use Distortion to Assail EPA’s Boiler Rules
WASHINGTON – December 8 – The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA), which represents the state authorities that manage air pollution in all fifty states, released a report today that debunks a widely circulated but highly misleading industry study on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed toxic air emission standards[Read More…]
