Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and Senator Blunt Announce Establishment of Biomass Production Areas in Missouri

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Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left, joined Senator Roy Blunt, right, of Missouri in announcing the establishment of two Biomass ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Obama Smart Grid Initiative

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Administration Announces Grid Modernization Initiatives To Foster a Clean Energy Economy and Spur Innovation The Obama Administration to...

Steve Jobs Proposed New Apple Headquarters Campus

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New Suburban Maryland Transportation Advocacy Group

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Douglas M. Duncan Today, former Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan announced the formation of a new public education and advoc...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Michele Bachmann on Environment & Energy

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ALL CANDIDATES Cap & Trade “I was very excited to see the tremendous turnout in both St. Cloud and Woodbury from so many 6th distric...

EPA Regulations Under Massive Attack As Job Killers

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Center Supports Jackson and Implementation of Reasonable Environmental Protections Lisa Jackson EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is being...

'Fukushima Protocol' To Prevent Japan-Type Nuclear Disaster

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 Fukushima Daiichi Reactors 3 & 4 A recent article in The New York Times, " In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust ," des...

Cree, Inc

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President Obama Visiting Cree Today Cree is one of the leaders in the LED lighting revolution and notes taht it is making energy-wasting t...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

NASA Aquarius Spacecraft To Study Oceans

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Rendering of Aquarius Satellite Aquarius, NASA’s ocean-watching  satellite launched into space Friday morning on a mission to fill critic...
Friday, June 10, 2011

NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko Should Resign Or Be Replaced

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Nuclear Regulator Undermining Safety of Nuclear Power Plants in the United States NRC Inspector General Report Exposes NRC Chairman Hous...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

GM CEO Akerson Proposes $1 a Gallon Gas Tax

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The Center opposes the proposal. Dan Akerson General Motors CEO Dan Akerson has floated the idea of a $1 a gallon increase in the gas t...

EPA Proposes Policy on Nanoscale Materials in Pesticide Products

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it plans to obtain information on nanoscale materials in pesticide products. Under ...

"Options for Biomass Fuels Utilization in Power Plants"

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By Don Koza, PE , Principal Engineer and Shuang Ma, PE , Boiler Technical Specialist, Bechtel Power Corp. Specialist, Bechtel Power Corp. ...

Airline Fuel Bills

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The fuel cost for a roundtrip flight from New York to Los is approximately $330. U.S. airlines burn an average of 22 gallons of fuel for ev...

EPA Issues Proposed Rule for Cooling Water Intake Structures

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At Existing Facilities EPA recently released proposed regulations governing cooling water intake structures (CWIS) for existing power pla...

Exxon Mobil Announces 3 Big Oil/Gas Finds In Gulf of Mexico

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Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced three major oil and natural gas discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico. Two of the finds, of natural gas at...

Tepco's Radioactive Water: Japan Must Stop Ocean Dumping

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The Washington Post quotes Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) as stating that they intend to treat thousands of tons of highly radioactiv...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Banks Lose Debit Card Swipe Vote in Senate

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The Senate defeated a measure that would have delayed implementation of a cut in the fees banks are allowed to charge retailers for each deb...

Japan Creates Independent Nuclear Agency

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Center Continues To Demand That Japanese Government Should Seal Site Immediately The Japanese government has announced that it is creating...

EPA Removes Confidentiality Claims for More Than 150 Chemicals

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Part of effort to protect Americans’ health by increasing access to chemical information In order to ensure the public has as much inform...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Center President Greets German Chancellor at The White House

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald I attended the welcoming ceremony for German Chancellor Angela Merkel at The White House tod...
Monday, June 06, 2011

China Interested In Building Nuclear Plant in East Africa

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Center Is Interested in Facilitating Construction of Plants According to uranium mining and investment company IBI Corp, China wants to ...
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Center Seeking $15 Million Donation To Build Biomass Plant

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The Center, through its subsidiary Green Electric ( GE ), is seeking to build a biomass-to-electricity plant in Port Gibson, Mississippi.  W...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

House Hearing on Storage of Civilian Nuclear Waste

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John Shimkus The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Representative John Shimkus (R-IL), he...

2011 Echoing Green Class of Fellows

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The twenty-two visionaries in the 2011 Echoing Green Class of Fellows are ready to push forward social change.  Solving the world’s most di...

Mitt Romney on Environment and Energy

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All Candidates Romney advocates the development of all our energy sources, nuclear, oil, natural gas and coal. Mitt Romney is against th...

Japan Prime Minister Kan Survives No Confidence Vote

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The Center has been calling for Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, left, to resign because of his mishandling of the Fukushima Daiichi nucle...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Meltdown: Now We Know

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald After musing about the implications of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, I ...