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New EPA guidance on retrofits
EPA’s Clean Diesel Campaign has issued new technical bulletins to for those considering using diesel oxidation catalysts or diesel particulate filters to retrofit their equipment, reports the Associated General Contractors of America’s Environmental Observer. In addition to a list of EPA-approved verified construction equipment retrofit technologies, the bulletins give guidance on the proper installation, operation and maintenance of […]
July 2, 2010
Maintenance
New EPA guidance on retrofits
EPA’s Clean Diesel Campaign has issued new technical bulletins to for those considering using diesel oxidation catalysts or diesel particulate filters to retrofit their equipment, reports the Associated General Contractors of America’s Environmental Observer. In addition to a list of EPA-approved verified construction equipment retrofit technologies, the bulletins give guidance on the proper installation, operation and maintenance of […]
July 2, 2010
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Virginia eyes offshore drilling funds for infrastructure
Although still years from actually sinking an offshore oil well, the state of Virginia is considering using royalties from these future oil wells as a way to finance roads, schools and environmental initiatives. The senate majority leader tried to get the future money earmarked for the general fund, but was defeated. The bill passed the house and […]
February 25, 2010
Business
Texas battles EPA over greenhouse gas
The EPA has been skulking around trying to find a backdoor way to regulate carbon dioxide, the alleged greenhouse gas. But Texas isn’t going to wait for the regulation to hit the fan. The Lone Star State has filed suit in federal court challenging the government’s authority to regulate a gas that is a byproduct […]
February 17, 2010
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Porche experiments with hybrid flywheel
If the Prius and other hybrid electric cars leave you dissatisfied, know at least that Porche is tinkering with an electro-mechanical flywheel developed by the Williams Formula One team subidiary Williams Hybrid Power. I drove a Prius once, a rental. Couldn’t wait to get out of it. A Porche 911 sounds like a lot more […]
February 12, 2010
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Greenpeace leader admits lies on global warming
Tell me it isn’t so. Turns out the Artic ice won’t all be gone by 2030 because of global warming and this Greenpeace leader admits saying so was a “mistake.” The trouble with exaggerations like Greenpeace’s is that most of the national news media shouts them from the rooftop. Then the government takes bad information like this and tries to turn […]
January 15, 2010
Business
The cap and trade fiasco
Toward the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany there was a joke going around Berlin about why the street sweepers had to be extra vigilant. People were afraid if they let any scraps of paper blow around in the streets that the Kaiser would come running out of the Reichstag and sign them thinking […]
January 11, 2010
Construction Equipment
Carbon sequestration plan called a sham
One of the big ideas the Obama people floated during the primaries and election last fall was the notion that we were going to take all our surplus carbon dioxide and somehow dump it back into the earth or the ocean or trade it out by planting trees. Yet one of the world’s top environmentalists– […]
January 11, 2010
Business
Green technology pounded by recession
There is a certain cadre in the environmental movement that would like nothing better than for the whole industrial world to plunge back into the 19th Century, where everyone farmed with mules and lit their homes with whale oil lamps. So it’s ironic that the current recession, rather than driving us backwards into a more […]
January 11, 2010
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Researchers: Biofuels could replace 1/3 of our gasoline use
General Motors and Sandia National Laboratories produced this study that says we could replace one-third of our gasoline use with biofuels made from forest waste and energy crops by the year 2030.
January 11, 2010
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Chinese debut all-electric car
It’s a plug-in model, no internal combustion, and it gets 93 miles per charge, goes up to 72 miles per hour and recharges in six hours. Their government says the vehicle will receive some subsidies to help make the car affordable to the average person and promote production.
January 11, 2010
Equipment
EPA to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant
This little noticed news (the EPA put out their press release Friday, guaranteeing minimal coverage) reminds me of a joke. Two guys are sitting at a bar. First guy says, “Mind if I smoke?” Second guy says, “not at all.” First guy says, “thanks.” Second guy says, “but please don’t exhale.” Granted we pump out a lot […]
January 11, 2010
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