Manassas VA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - INSIGHT has announced concern that hype over green supply chains, supply chains that are ecologically-friendly, miss the real opportunity for helping the environment and omit a rigorous approach. Currently, INSIGHT's optimization engine within their flagship software, SAILS 21 gives users the best answer to supply chain planning questions - this is not new.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - In a unanimous vote, the Ohio legislature has passed a new bill requiring 12.5% of Ohio's energy be generated from renewable sources like wind and solar. Ohio now becomes the 26th state, including California, New York and Texas, to adopt renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) - tough new laws which are creating one of the most dramatic shifts in the delivery of energy to American consumers ever.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today following comments made this morning by President Bush on energy policy: During his press conference this morning, President Bush repeated his call for more domestic oil drilling - the same failed energy policy that has brought record gas prices.
New York (AFP) April 30, 2008 - A majority of Rockefeller family members, whose forefather founded ExxonMobil, announced Wednesday a shareholder drive to require an independent chairman of the energy giant's board of directors.
Geneva (AFP) April 30, 2008 - A senior UN official who will lead a top international task force on the global food price crisis warned Wednesday against a hasty response to the growing use of biofuels.
Wallingford PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 - Higher energy prices and the certainty of additional increases in the coming years are affecting Pennsylvanias consumers and businesses, said Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty during a town hall meeting. The secretary outlined how the commonwealth can help energy consumers mitigate these price increases while growing its economy by enacting Governor Edward G. Rendells Energy Independence Strategy, which is awaiting action in the Senate.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - BP has announced that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, which is constructing a 435 million liter (115 million gallons) a year ethanol refinery in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil.
Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008 - A biofuels frenzy and other misguided policies have led to the global food crisis in which prices have soared and rice consumption has outpaced production, threatening a billion people with malnutrition, experts said Tuesday.
CSIRO researchers have discovered a new class of fatty acids - alpha-hydroxy polyacetylenic fatty acids - that could be used as sensors for detecting changes in temperature and mechanical stress loads.
Madison PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Coskata has said it will produce 40,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year at a commercial demonstration plant near Pittsburgh. The $25 million project will be located at the Westinghouse Plasma Center, the current site of a pilot-plant gasifier owned and operated by Westinghouse Plasma Corporation (WPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alter Nrg Corp.
Kansas City MO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Kansas City Power and Light (KCP and L) has announced that it is endorsing the effort by Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy to put a renewable energy initiative proposal on the public ballot for the November 2008 election.
Paris (AFP) April 29, 2008 - OECD environment ministers on Tuesday stood by efforts to tackle climate change, despite arguments in some quarters that at a time of economic uncertainty, spending on green issues could damage competitiveness.
Oklahoma has secured land for the worlds largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production.
Bellevue WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Puget Sound Energy has announced that the company has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Farm Power Northwest of Skagit County to develop a dairy digester facility to produce electric power from manure, a technology that holds the promise of both an environmentally friendly energy source and a benefit to local dairy farmers and the Skagit County economy.
Manila (AFP) April 29, 2008 - The Philippine capital may soon have a power plant that uses thousands of daily tonnes of garbage as fuel, the head of the agency overseeing the area said Tuesday.
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 - Summer's coming, and that means hot days - hot enough to have to turn on air conditioners. But what if we could lower that need - just a little bit? According to the United States Department of Energy, the average air-conditioned home releases two tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at energy is consumed - and as homeowners collectively lay out a total of $11 billion a year to cool those homes.
