Wind Turbine of the Future Installed on Historic Oilfield
CASPER, Wyoming, December 30, 2008 (ENS) – The installation of a six kilowatt wind turbine on a historic oil field about 35 miles north of Casper showcases a new type of smaller wind turbine that is growing in popularity for home, farm, or business use. The new turbine will serve both Casper College and the [...]
Read More »California’s Unclaimed Bottle Refunds Create Green Jobs
SACRAMENTO, California, December 30, 2008 (ENS) – Unclaimed refund pennies on aluminum, glass and plastic beverage containers purchased in California that end up in the trash instead of the recycling bin amount to millions of dollars. These funds are now being used to underwrite recycling projects across the state. The California Department of Conservation has [...]
Read More »Rapanos Will Pay for Clean Water Act Violations
DETROIT, Michigan, December 30, 2008 (ENS) – In long-running case that affects the scope of federal jurisdiction over wetlands and other waters, developer John Rapanos and related defendants agreed Monday to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act at three sites in Midland and Bay counties, Michigan. Rapanos has agreed to pay a $150,000 civil [...]
Read More »Europe’s 2010 Biodiversity Protection Target Slipping Away
BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 30, 2008 (ENS) – The European Union will fail to meet its goal of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 unless there is “enormous effort” over the next two years, according to the EU’s the first comprehensive assessment of progress in implementing its Biodiversity Action Plan. Despite the further extension of [...]
Read More »Partial Disentanglement of Right Whale Accomplished
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, December 29, 2008 (ENS) – A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in a network of rope loops got some help on Saturday from a rescue team led by NOAA’s Fisheries Service. Wildlife rescuers found the young whale in the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds off northeast Florida and they [...]
Read More »El Paso’s Stormwater Angst
EL PASO, Texas, December 29, 2008 (ENS) – The city’s new stormwater utility fees infuriated El Paso business and property owners when the first bills arrived in March 2008, increasing their operating costs by thousands of dollars. The fees are to pay for improving and maintaining El Paso’s stormwater system after disastrous flooding in 2006 [...]
Read More »British Shoppers Must Learn to Bring Their Own Bags
LONDON, UK, December 29, 2008 (ENS) – By next spring, some of Britain’s largest supermarket chains will halve the number of plastic and paper bags they supply to customers as compared with a 2006 baseline under an agreement reached last week between the government and the retailers. The 50 percent cut was set by British [...]
Read More »Storm Surge Barrier Going Up to Protect New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, December 29, 2008 (ENS) – Defense of Greater New Orleans’ most vulnerable area from storm surge has begun with the groundbreaking for the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lake Borgne Surge Barrier Project, the largest design-build civil works project in Corps history. It is unusual for a civil works project to be designed [...]
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