China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has publicly criticized a northwestern city on Wednesday for its slack response to recent smog. The ministry's pollution inspection team found that Xi'an municipal government had been very slow ...
Tags: Environment Ministry, Weak Smog
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised its energy conversion efficiency record for thin-film ...
Tags: Manz CIGS PV, Electrical, Electronics
Chinese steelmakers, already obsessed with low profit margins, have been told to increase their environmental investment to help the country reduce air pollution. As part of an action plan to curb air pollution, the Chinese government is ...
Tags: steel, Construction
Holcim Lebanon, a supplier of cement in the Lebanese market, has been granted by the environment ministry an exclusive permit to co-process pharmaceutical waste in its cement kiln. As per the permit, Holcim Lebanon is to submit quarterly ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, cement
ET reported that the Bombay High Court has asked billionaire Mr Anil Agarwal controlled Vedanta Aluminum to deposit a security amount of INR 187 crore with the court till the arbitration proceedings reach a definitive conclusion based on a ...
Tags: Bombay High Court, Vedanta Aluminium, INR 187 Crore, Mineral
Business Line reported that the wind energy project of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Ltd has secured the clean development mechanism status from United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Germany. It has registered ...
Tags: green wind energy, energy efficiency, solar power energy
BS reported that Vedanta Aluminium Limited which is facing a challenge to run its refinery at Lanjigarh beyond December 5th 2012 hopes to get some bauxite from external sources in 2 to 3 days. Mr Mukesh Kumar president and chief operating ...
Tags: Balco, refinery Lanjigarh, mineral industry
The Government of British Columbia in Canada is partially funding an initiative to install 454 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the state by the end of March 2013. The government has already approved 75% funding from 71 ...
Tags: new electric vehicle, charging stations, electric transportation, CCI
Hazardous metal waste can affect brain and nervous system if not disposed of properly The city is likely to be chosen for a project on disposal of "fused" compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulbs that contain mercury - a hazardous metal that ...
Tags: CFL
The Spanish wood-based panels producer Financiera Maderera (Finsa) is posed to permanently close a particleboard mill run by its Basque subsidiary Inama at the end of 2011. Several Spanish daily newspapers reported that the company had ...
Tags: market view, wood-based panels
Germany's Environment Ministry on Friday dismissed a proposal from the Economy Ministry to reduce the growth of new photovoltaic installations to 1,000 megawatt (MW) a year, saying a 15-percent cut for 2012 was enough for now. The ...
Tags: Market View, solar
Germany's Environment Ministry on Friday dismissed a proposal from the Economy Ministry to reduce the growth of new photovoltaic installations to 1,000 megawatt (MW) a year, saying a 15-percent cut for 2012 was enough for now. The ...
Tags: solar