ORLANDO, Fla., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of the world's first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has been named as one of the nation's top 75 Green Supply Chain Partners. The award, given by Inbound Logistics magazine, recognizes "visionaries who every day demonstrate their commitment to sustainability. In citing iGPS for recognition, Inbound Logistics noted, [iGPS'] plastic pallets are 35% lighter than typical multi-use wood pallets, and therefore require less fuel for transport. With less fuel consumption, plastic pallets reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
... worth of emissions from burning fossil fuels at current rates.2 . Due to a lack of diversificat... remains highly dependent on ligneous fuels (wood, charcoal, plant resides, etc,) which accounts for..., statistics (from 1983) of wood fuel consumption are summarised in the table below: . > The annual ...
On March 21, 2011, the EPA promulgated national emission standards for the control of hazardous air pollutants from new and existing industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters at major sources of hazardous air pollutants. On that same day, the EPA also published a notice announcing its intent to reconsider certain provisions of the final rule. The EPA subsequently issued a notice on May 18, 2011, to postpone the effective dates of the final rule until judicial review has been completed, or the agency finalizes its reconsideration of the standard, whichever is earlier. In the action to postpone the effective dates of the rule, the EPA also requested the public to submit data and information to assist the EPA in its reconsideration. Following these actions, the ...
... lumber and wood. ... Establishing a fuel specification through which gas-fired boilers that... emissions from increased electricity consumption are estimated to be 931,000 tons per year from exi...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New state investments in alternative, clean and renewable energy will help consumers, businesses and municipalities reduce energy use and save money. Today's new investments help Pennsylvania strengthen its commitment to develop and deploy clean, safe energy technology," said Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary C. Alan Walker. "These new projects help businesses, families and local communities save money by becoming more energy efficient, and will result in nearly $58 million in additional economic investments in communities statewide.
... system to heat three campus buildings in Woodbury Township. The new heating system, which runs on woood chips, will offset fuel oil consumption by 84 percent, and is expected to ...
... by incomplete combustion4 of fossil fuels (e.g., coal, oil, gasoline), bio-fuel (e.g., wood ...& Soc. Affairs, Trends in Consumption Production: Household Energy Consumption, U.N. DES...
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine -- A Presque Isle college broke ground Monday on a 900-kilowatt biomass boiler, further enhancing its efforts to use renewable energy as both a cost-saving measure and teaching tool. Approximately 20 people attended the 15-minute ceremony at Northern Maine Community College on Monday afternoon. The boiler will provide heat for nearly 70 percent of the total square footage of buildings on campus.
...The new wood pellet heating plant will be located in the Mailma... we are doing to reduce our energy consumption on this campus," Crowley said Monday. "It really b... and replace more than 65 percent of its fuel oil consumption with a local, renewable energy sou...
Stricter fuel efficiency standards, establishing a 35 miles per gallon target for the corporate average fuel economy of new vehicle sales by model year (MY) 2020, were part of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. During spring of this year, the Obama administration moved up the deadline by which the new requirements have to be met from MY2020 to MY2016. In addition, it instructed the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate automobile emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). On Jun 4, 2009, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a workshop at its Detroit branch to discuss the challenges of meeting these stricter fuel efficiency requirements. In order to meet the new fuel economy and GHG emissions targets, automakers will be looking to technologies available at the lowest c...
... of improvements in fuel economy; and Roger Wood, executive vice president and general manager of t..., the new requirements on fuel consumption can be met with existing technologies. Yet, in dra...
...SUBCHAPTER E: ALTERNATE FUELS. PART 500: DEFINITIONS. 500.2 - General definitio..., industrial, or agricultural wastes; wood; and renewable and geothermal energy sources (For ... gas, or any commercial user whose consumption of natural gas on peak day is less than 50 MCF. In...
... of immense stores of solar energy in fossil fuels: such fuels have literally powered the modern libe... degree of regulation (in production, consumption, planning, and so on) that runs counter to liberal...Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutio...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health experts from Plan International, a leading children's development organization with offices in 66 countries around the world, will deliver 13 presentations on children's health at the upcoming American Public Health Association's (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver, Colorado on November 6-10, 2010. The American Public Health Association gathers organizations together to address current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health globally. The Annual Meeting is a premier event that is expected to attract more than 13,000 doctors, nurses, administrators, researchers, epidemiologists, and other health professionals.
... homes in six districts to replace older wood burning stoves to cleaner, more efficient stoves i... and their families from indirect consumption of smoke from traditional cooking. New stoves also... protection by reducing consumption of fuel wood for cooking. Founded more than 70 years ago, ...
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