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[Jesse Grossman], whose business fits into that category, doesn't like to talk about his company's financial backers. That said, Soltage and its business model are definitely on the radar screen of venture cap funds that monitor the New Jersey marketplace. In a study released last year, the Cleantech Network LLC in Ann Arbor, Mich, said the Garden State ranked fifth in the nation in encouraging the growth of clean tech startup companies, due in part to Gov. Jon Corzine's aggressive legislation to lower current greenhouse gas emission levels by 20 percent by 2020, and by 80 percent by 2050. Investors are particularly focused on energy efficiency and alternative energy, including solar power that converts sunlight into electricity, wind power, fuel cell technology, biofuels and other ene...
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A Millinocket paper mill is being blamed for an algae bloom in the Penobscot River so massive that leaders of the Penobscot Nation are advising tribal members to stay out of the water. State environmental officials say the bloom of common blue-green algae, although unusually large, has not been determined to be toxic, so there are no state-issued health advisories for the Penobscot River. A sample from the bloom has been sent away for further analysis.
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BEIJING - Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday. The algae bloom in Lake Tai, a famous but long-polluted tourist attraction in Jiangsu province, formed because water levels are at their lowest in 50 years, leading to excess nutrients in the water, Xinhua said.
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While the waters of the Penobscot River appear to have cleared in recent days, tensions remain high over the events leading to a massive algae bloom affecting roughly 75 miles of the critically important waterway. Late last week, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection notified Katahdin Paper Co. that the business's Millinocket paper mill was being blamed for a bloom of blue-green algae that stretched from the Katahdin region to Hampden.
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The worst algae bloom in history severely contaminated the waters of western Lake Erie this summer, prompting environmentalists to say Tuesday that the decades-long effort to clean up the lake could be undone by agricultural runoff and the growth of invasive species. While the algae bloom has not yet damaged the Buffalo end of the lake, experts said the problem could eventually reduce the local population of walleye, a favorite of fishermen.
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Break out your swim suits: It's now safe to take a dip in Vancouver Lake. Just in time for the winter Polar Bear clubs, the Clark County Health Department on Monday lifted a no-swimming advisory. Test results, from water samples taken Oct. 4, indicated that a toxic algae bloom had finally receded at the 2,600-acre lake.
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The red tide that closed clam flats statewide in July was so toxic that it killed more than a dozen sturgeon at the mouth of the Kennebec River, state officials said Friday. It's believed to be the first time that red tide has killed fish along the Maine coast. And it's the first known case anywhere of the toxin killing shortnose sturgeon, which apparently ate contaminated clams.
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WAUSAU, Wis. - Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue- green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people. Aquatic biologists say it's a problem that falls somewhere between a human health concern and a nuisance, but will eventually lead to more human poisoning. State officials are telling people who live on algae-covered lakes to close their windows, stop taking walks along the picturesque shorelines and keep their dogs from drinking the rank water.
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Consol Energy Inc. will build a high-tech mine water treatment system and pay government agencies $6 million under an agreement related to a 2009 algae bloom that killed aquatic life along Dunkard Creek in Greene County. The deal, announced Monday with the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, calls for the Cecil-based coal and natural gas producer to build a $200 million reverse osmosis/zero liquid discharge system in West Virginia.
