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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, February 26, 2010 (ENS) - Pennsylvania's new $48 million Green Energy Revolving Loan Fund will supply capital for developing cost effective, energy-saving and renewable energy projects in existing, non-residential buildings throughout the state.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a November ultimatum for Japan to cease its whale hunt in the Antarctic ocean. Rudd, who is the federal leader of Australia's leftist Labor party, has long been an anti-whaling advocate and says that he would prefer to solve the whaling issue politically r...
Lawyers representing the United States Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in federal courts challenging a ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow them to collect fees from businesses for their greenhouse gas emissions. The Chamber of Commerce stated that it will not be challe...
In a filing with the Security and Exchanges commission last week, California start-up Tesla Motors announced that it would be discontinuing production of its all-electric Roadster sports car sometime next year. The $100,000 plus two seater is Tesla's only production model, which Tesla says it will n...
T.Boone Pickens may be best known for his "I'm an oil man" television advertisements where he advocated an expansion of wind power, has all but walked from the technology. After days of stumping on Capitol Hill, the Texas billionaire has greatly deviated from the original Pickens plan. While the hug...
According to the environmental research group Black & Veatch, the way we power our homes in 2034 will be nearly identical to today. Coal and natural gas are still expected to provide well over half of our nation's energy needs, while modest increases in nuclear and renewable energy will allow fo...
Rumors from Greentech Media say that Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard may have found a new job working for Volkswagen. The German company, which displayed an electric super car concept in the Audi E-Tron, has a storied history with electric cars. Months ago, Audi CEO Johan de Nysschen publicly calle...
Payment Processing Firm Surprised to Win
SAN FRANCISCO, California – December 9, 2009 – Dharma Merchant Services, a provider of credit card acceptance accounts, was awarded the 2009 Green Business Leadership Award on November 12th at the annual Green Business Conference sponsored by Green America. S...
ESolar, a Pasadena, California based solar thermal company, landed a lucrative contract to build a series of solar thermal power plants in China with a total capacity approaching 2,000mW. This deal coincides with a solar contract awarded in 2009 to an Arizona-based Solar PV company to build the worl...
WASHINGTON, DC, December 11, 2009 (ENS) - As a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and restoration under a bankruptcy reorganization of American Smelting and Refining Company, ASARCO, federal officials announced Th...
