China's governments and industries have been making efforts to develop robots but there has been a lack of direction for the development in terms of application. There were 36,560 robots sold in the China market in 2013, growing 60% on ...
Tags: Robot Development, Robots
A guideline has been issued by The China Banking Regulatory Commission to encourage greater allocation of bank loans to companies and industries involving in environmental protection, and energy-efficiency projects. The future projects that ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with three companies affiliated with Shell Oil Company to resolve Clean Air Act violations, including selling gasoline and diesel fuel that did not conform to ...
Tags: Vehicle Fuel Standards, gasoline, Auto
A citizens group has opposed the move of the Central Government to set up a Textile Park in Tamil Nadu saying that the Park would aggravate the serious pollution problems faced by Tirupur and its surrounding regions. In a statement, the ...
Tags: water bodies, toxic effluents, Textile
The country's 35 major cities and municipalities will release detailed analysis of sources of PM2.5 - fine pollutant particles found in the air - by the end of this year to help create more effective ways of curbing air pollution. The ...
The first College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship is leading the way in environmental stewardship by incorporating sustainability as a key part of its operations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing CFP, Kay ...
Tags: renewable energy, solid waste, Construction
On January 9th, National Science and Technology Awards Conference held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Heavy duty diesel vehicles pollution control technology (SCR) that SINOTRUK involved won the second prize of National Science ...
New Road Lighting Book In 1980 the book “Road Lighting”, written by Prof de Boer and Wout van Bommel was published in the series “Philips Lighting Library”. It was regarded as the ‘road lighting bible’ ...
Tags: road lighting, Lights
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), has been fined $531,000 for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its chemical manufacturing plant in Deepwater, New Jersey. The EPA ...
Tags: Deepwater, skin cancer, Health
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Maryland today announced a new set of pollution limits for trash for portions of the Patapsco River. These limits, also known as a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL, require the ...
Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality launched its carbon trading market on Thursday, marking the operation of all seven approved pilot trading programs in the country. Sixteen transactions worth more than 4.45 million yuan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Carbon
Six years ago, the 5 Gyres Institute formed to answer a question the world had put in its too hard box. Marcus Eriksen, PhD, director of research for the 5 Gyres Institute, explained, “The 5 Gyres Institute’s work began six ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas announced that the city of Fort Smith, Ark. will upgrade its sewer collection and treatment system over the next 12 years to reduce ...
Tags: Sewer System, Local Waterways, Agriculture
China will continue to subsidize new-energy cars through 2020 but plans to cut the subsidy gradually to foster market competition, according to a draft of the rules posted on the Ministry of Finance website Tuesday. The new policy is ...
Tags: New-Energy Cars, Transportation