A ban on the sale of inefficient lamps in the United Arab Emirates comes into effect on 1 July. The move is expected to save Dh668 million (£106.8 million) on energy bills annually. The ban is part of the UAE's indoor lighting ...
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Mini Luma LED street light from Philips Warrington Borough Council is replacing two thirds of the 27,000 street lights across the borough. The council is investing £25 million to upgrade its street lighting columns and ...
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As part of the President's Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. These ...
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Routine street lighting maintenance has been axed in Derbyshire, following huge budget cuts. Derbyshire County Council said it can only afford to replace 12,000 street lights in the next financial year, following a £775,000 cut to ...
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China and the United States signed a package of agreements on energy efficiency projects here on Wednesday, a move expected to deepen energy cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The deals include a program of distributed ...
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China is the world's second largest carbon trading market following the European Union (EU), according to data released on Tuesday. Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said Chinese enterprises ...
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Food and drink researchers have found a new way to produce sparkling wine using magnetised yeast – a process that they said reduced the time taken to remove waste yeast from weeks to minutes. The research will be published in the ...
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Novomer Inc., a sustainable materials company offering a family of high-performance polymers and other chemicals from renewable feedstocks such as carbon dioxide (CO2), has announced the commercial introduction of Converge polypropylene ...
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Ford Motor Company, a US-based automotive company, has introduced its Lightweight Concept vehicle, built using advanced materials including new metals, alloys and composites as a part of its research for future weight-reduction solutions. ...
Ford Motor and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, have announced research on different levels of hybrid technology that can could be produced in high volume, and used in non-hybrid vehicles to achieve greater fuel savings. ...
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US natural gas demand would increase 3.29 Bcf/d by 2020 as a result of the US Environmental Protection Agency's newly released plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. After 2020, gas demand ...
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US natural gas demand could increase by 3 Bcf/d to 10 Bcf/d by 2020 under an expected Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, analysts said Friday. Using its authority under the Clean Air ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it is awarding the University of California, Berkeley, a $1.5 million grant for work to assess the impact of pollution from household and village-scale stoves on air quality in ...
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Volvo Electric has signed an agreement with Hamburger Hochbahn for the delivery of three to hybrid buses. The plug-in technology enables fuel consumption and CO2 emissions to be reduced by up to 75% and total energy consumption to be ...
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American automaker Ford Motor has announced its plans to launch new Transit vehicles with a new paint technology. vv The new two-wet monocoat paint process, developed by Ford and its paint suppliers, is said to be more durable, while ...
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