• How Can You Save Energy While Spring Cleaning?

    Updated: 2012-04-30 20:04:44
    How Can You Save Energy While Spring Cleaning April 26, 2012 13:26 Cleaning your home in between winter and summer is a great way to welcome warmer weather and get some fresh air . Speaking of fresh air , Stephanie talked about her challenge in replacing her furnace filter a project that usually leads to replacing other filters that can make appliances less efficient and use more energy and cleaning the surrounding basement area . It's a great example of how doing one thing to save energy can lead to . others If you're doing any spring cleaning this season , is energy efficiency part of your project If not , are there any small changes you can make to save money and energy You have the chance to share your thoughts on a question about energy efficiency or renewable energy for consumers .

  • Interim Final Determination to Stay and Defer Sanctions: San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:28:39
    EPA is making an interim final determination to stay the imposition of offset sanctions and to defer the imposition of highway sanctions based on a proposed approval of revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) published elsewhere in this Federal Register. The [...]

  • Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan: San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:28:14
    EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen (NOX) from solid fuel fired boilers, steam generators and process heaters. The EPA is approving a local rule that regulates these emission sources under [...]

  • Discussing Peak Oil, Speculators, Oil Shale, and Alternative Fuels

    Updated: 2012-04-26 01:23:02
    I am traveling some over the next two weeks, and did not have a chance to record my weekly video segment this week. However, last Friday I was a guest on Alan Colmes’ show on Fox News Radio, so I will share that this week instead. I had been a guest on his show last month to discuss whether President Obama bears responsibility for high gas prices. As I said then, gas prices are outside the control of a sitting U.S. president. As an aside, gas prices appear to have peaked for now and are on the way down. Does anyone who blamed Obama for higher prices think he is responsible for bringing them back down? That is in fact... Continue»

  • Why "Passive Activities" May Be Clean Energy's Biggest Hurdle

    Updated: 2012-04-25 14:00:00
    If you care about the future of the American renewable energy industry, you need to learn what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “passive activities.” Because these important rules mean that as long as the U.S. relies on the tax code to provide renewable energy incentives, renewable energy can only grow as fast as Wall

  • NESHAPs for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production

    Updated: 2012-04-19 17:55:27
    The EPA is promulgating National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers Production. The final rules establish emission standards that apply at all times, including periods of startup, shutdown and malfunction, for hazardous air pollutants from polyvinyl chloride and copolymers production located at major and area sources. The final rules [...]

  • Revisions to Arizona SIP: Pinal County Air Quality Control District

    Updated: 2012-04-19 17:54:18
    EPA is finalizing a limited approval and limited disapproval of a revision to the Pinal County Air Quality Control District portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action was proposed in the Federal Register on June 18, 2001 and concerns particulate matter (PM) emissions from stationary sources. Under authority of the Clean Air [...]

  • Standards of Performance for GHG Emissions for New Stationary Sources: EGU Units

    Updated: 2012-04-19 17:50:14
    The United States EPA is proposing new source performance standards for emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) for new affected fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units (EGUs). The EPA is proposing these requirements because CO2 is a greenhouse gas (GHG) and fossil fuel-fired power plants are the country’s largest stationary source emitters of GHGs. The proposed [...]

  • Ohio State at the Columbus Auto Show

    Updated: 2012-04-13 17:44:52
    The Ohio State University’s EcoCAR 2 team recently partnered with Clean Fuels Ohio to create a display called “Green and Made in Ohio” for the 2012 Columbus Auto Show! The focus of the display was regional Ohio’s contributions to the alternative fuel transportation sector, including electric vehicle alternatives and electric vehicle charging installation displays. Over the [...]

  • Rural Africa Looks Beyond the Grid

    Updated: 2012-04-12 14:00:00
    In picking South Africa for last year's meet-up, the COP-17 climate change talks prompted some inevitable grumbles. Why was the global climate change industry holding its jamboree in a country that, despite its commitment to renewables, pumps out so much CO2?

  • Sponsor PennWell's Wall of Honor To Recognize Military Service Personnel

    Updated: 2012-04-09 20:30:21
    Exhibitors and attendees at PennWell's 2012 events in the U.S. can become sponsors of the Wall of Honor.

  • Honda Turns Their Fuel Cell Sedan Into A Solar Powered Generator

    Updated: 2012-04-09 14:30:00
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  • EPA Announces Settlement With Marathon Petroleum Company

    Updated: 2012-04-06 01:18:20
    WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced an innovative environmental agreement with Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Company that already has significantly reduced air pollution from all six of the company’s petroleum refineries. Marathon has agreed to state-of-the-art controls on flares and to a cap on the volume of [...]

  • Trade-in the 20th Century Electric Grid, Don't Trade-off Local Energy

    Updated: 2012-04-05 14:00:00
    In a New York Times Sunday Review piece last month — rawing the Line at Power Lines mdash; lisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant tradeoffs: There are pipelines, trains, trucks and high-voltage transmission lines. None of them are pretty, and all have environmental drawbac

  • Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur

    Updated: 2012-04-03 20:01:18
    EPA is retaining the current nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) secondary standards to address the direct effects on vegetation of exposure to gaseous oxides of nitrogen and sulfur and, for reasons described in detail in this final preamble, is not adding new standards at this time to address effects associated with the deposition of oxides of nitrogen and sulfur on sensitive aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

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