As homes heating with oil are facing record-level heating bills, consumers heating with wood pellets are suddenly realizing record savings.
This January, Popular Mechanics introduced “the high tech, carbon-neutral alternative fuel of the future” – wood. Providing environmental and economic benefits, and a level of convenience unmatched by traditional wood stoves, over a million US homes [...]
Dresser-Rand Group Inc., announced that Ray Carney has been elected Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer to succeed Lonnie Arnett, who is retiring.
Carney joined Dresser-Rand in August 2008 as Corporate Controller, and has been working with Lonnie Arnett, Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, to transition responsibilities. Carney was most recently with Alcoa, [...]
Soil Safe, Inc., a leading environmental services company providing soil processing and remediation solutions to clients in the infrastructure, commercial, and industrial construction markets, today announced that it has partnered with and received a strategic investment from Lake Capital, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in service-based companies. Soil Safe will use the capital [...]
Sustainable Power Corp. outlines the important facts underlying SSTP’s vision and solution to solving the problem of utilizing fossil fuels for production of electricity and the benefits of employing SSTP’s revolutionary technology of converting solid municipal waste to natural gas which is used to power electric-producing generators.
Every living citizen produces approximately 4.6 pounds of solid [...]
Albemarle Corporation, a leading global supplier of petroleum refining catalysts and additives, will increase the prices of its fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts for both heavy feed (Resid) and vacuum gas oil (VGO) cracking applications by 20 percent worldwide, effective September 1, 2008, or as contracts allow. Natural gas and rare earth surcharges will continue [...]
U.S. now leads world in wind energy generation but delay in extending federal tax credit places 2009 project pipeline on hold, discourages manufacturing investment
U.S. wind farms now generate more electricity than any other nation in the world and are on track to expand by over 45% this year, but the expiration of the federal production [...]
SANE (Sustainable Aviation Network Europe) organises on 1 September the conference “Sustainable Aviation: Sound and Climate in Perspective’ in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. International guests speak about climate measures, like the proposal for the inclusion of aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme, about biofuels and also about sound annoyance. High level representatives from both EU [...]
PureSpectrum, Inc. has continued the expansion and strengthening of its intellectual property portfolio by filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL).
In addition to filing for full patent protection for the dimmable CFL bulb design, the company has also begun proceeding to upgrade patent protection from [...]
Nicor Gas announced a new program to make it easier for customers whose natural gas service was disconnected earlier this year because of non-payment of bills to get re-connected in time for the 2008-2009 home heating season.
The program, Reconnect Assistance, will run from Monday, September 8 through Friday, September 19. While all customers disconnected for [...]
During a summer in which monsoon storms and high temperatures dominated local news, APS continued to provide reliable service to the Company’s more than 1.1 million customers throughout Arizona.
“It’s our job to be prepared for any potential contingency, and to ensure the lights come on and air conditioning is available when our customers flip the [...]