The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals (coal ash) from coal-fired power plants. The final rule establishes safeguards to ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are honoring four organizations in Tennessee with 2014 Energy Star awards. A total of 127 organizations will be honored for their commitment to ...
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TVA Medical, a medical device company focused on endovascular innovation, has announced that its vascular catheter-based Flex system for hemodialysis access has demonstrated success in the FLEX-1 pilot study. Recently, the company ...
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Rooms To Go has completed an effort initiated in 2010 to convert 115 of its retail stores to LED lighting. The switch to energy efficient 16-18 watt LED track lamps from the 60 watt halogen track lamps previously in use by the retailer ...
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Aleddra LED Lighting, a business unit of Lightel Technologies, Inc., today announces its EasiRetrofit™ LED T8 lamp has been successfully deployed for a commercial parking lighting project and help achieving 13-month payback for the ...
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Dfine has added a new energy-responsive, ultra-high viscosity StabiliT ERX bone cement to its products portfolio. StabiliT ERX bone cement, which has five times greater viscosity than other Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cements and ...
Tags: ERX bone cement, vertebral augmentation system, complex fractures
For years,the Tennessee Valley Authority help desk was an IT career graveyard--and customers suffered for it.Only about half of user problems were resolved in the first call,well below the industry average. The TVA's help desk woes led to ...
During the formal opening of the solar-powered charging station at Shelby Farms Park on Wednesday,a half-dozen shiny new electric vehicles–most with the sales pitch"98 mpg"painted on their windshields–filled the stalls of ...
Tags: Solar-Powered Charging Station, Electric Vehicles, New Technology
LED North America has turned the headquarters building for Outpost Solar in Pulaski, TN, into an all-LED facility. LED North America, an incubator facility for the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak ...
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The sun was the guest of honor at the grand opening of Schneider Electric's new solar farm at the company's Smyrna, Tenn. manufacturing plant. It showed up early and stayed all day. The bright sunshine over the hills of middle ...
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