In 2014 the Queensland Department of Industry announced the launch of the new 'Industry Skills Fund'. Commencing from 19 January 2015, the $476 million 'Industry Skills Fund' assists Australian businesses to invest in training and support ...
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Published by Elaine, February 13, 2015 The Canton Fair, which full name is China Import and Export Fair has been the most important, most influential, one of the largest China’s trade fairs since the spring of 1957 in Guangzhou, ...
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Russia's central bank failed to stem a further dramatic fall in the rouble on Thursday despite raising the headline interest rate to 10.5%. The central bank, which has used billions of dollars worth of foreign reserves in a desperate ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an ...
With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
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Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded eight seed grants totaling about $1.5m for new research in clean technology and energy ...
The 18th edition of Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS 2014), which was held from October 15 to 17, 2014 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, Taiwan, ended on a successful note. Organized by the Taiwan ...
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Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
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US wholesale energy provider Southern Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company, has acquired the 150MW Solar Gen 2 project in California from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has upgraded air-blowing equipment used in blast furnace operations in Lipetsk. This upgrade will enable NLMK to reduce its environmental footprint and save approximately RUB 210 million ($5.3 ...
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In early September, federal, state and local leaders joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources LLC (one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the USA), Edison International company Southern California Edison (SCE) ...
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Contaminated Brownfields properties in the Missouri communities of Boonville, Kansas City and Lebanon will receive a combined total of more than $1 million to help fund their cleanups through a pair of Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) ...
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DTE Electric, Michigan's largest power utility with more than 2.1 million customers, plans to retire a third of its coal-fired generation, more than 2,000 MW, by 2025, and rely more on natural gas and renewables, mostly wind, the company ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Green Power Partnership released an updated list of the Top 100 organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources like wind and solar power. "By using ...
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LEED certified buildings are intended to use resources more efficiently when compared to conventional buildings simply built to code. However, analysis of energy and water use data from New York City shows that LEED certification does not ...
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