Wuxi, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - China Wind Systems has purchased new equipment to expand its forged rolled rings manufacturing capabilities. The $4.13 million purchase was in line with the Company's strategy to focus on the growing wind power industry in China, and was largely funded with the proceeds from its recent private placement financing.
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - Ppreliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The announcement was made by Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director, during his keynote remarks Jan. 15 at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego,CA. The preliminary data can be accessed online.
Ames IA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - You've got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go. Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district's new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus on one of the district's six routes, said he likes the 65-passenger machine powered by an electric motor and a V-8 diesel engine.
Berlin (AFP) Jan 22, 2008 - The world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite was to set sail on Tuesday from Germany to Venezuela, the company behind the project said.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tromsoe, Norway (AFP) Jan 22, 2008 - Global conservation group WWF called on Tuesday for a moratorium on all new oil exploration in the Arctic, insisting that the environmental risks to the sensitive eco system there were too great.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 21, 2008 - Construction work on the world's first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month, the developers said on Monday.
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 21, 2008 - Coal is king in Poland, the European Union's top producer, and Warsaw is poised for a fight to keep burning as much as possible in power stations, feeding its economy despite the pollution.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2008 - The European Commission will on Wednesday unveil detailed plans to slash greenhouse gases by 2020, with the focus on renewable fuels and emissions trading, despite French attempts to push the nuclear option.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 20, 2008 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived Sunday in India from China, looking for movement from New Delhi on tackling climate change while also building on strong trade and investment links.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 20, 2008 - EU plans to make companies pay for the right to pollute have come under fierce fire from governments and industry, warning they could force business and jobs to leave Europe.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 20, 2008 - Japan will provide technological support for developing countries in Africa and Asia to help them fight against climate change and infection diseases, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 19, 2008 - India will put aside differences with Britain over cutting carbon emissions to pursue closer ties in trade, education and counter-terrorism during a state visit by Prime Minister Gordon Brown starting Sunday, officials said.
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2008 - Iraq's Oil Ministry spent $558 million on capital projects in 2007 to improve its struggling oil sector. Or $500 million. Or only $270,000.
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2008 - While Western investors looking at offshore Caspian development tend to concentrate their attention on Azeri and Kazakh offshore fields, Russia is now moving swiftly to develop projects in its own self-defined sector of the Caspian. The initiative for the development comes from the very highest levels of the Russian government, from President Vladimir Putin himself. Russia's move offshore means it is now joining post-Soviet republics Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in developing their claimed national sectors of the Caspian, leaving only Iran, stymied by U.S. trade sanctions barring significant foreign investment in its oil infrastructure, as the sole riverain nation unable to ramp up its offshore production.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008 - International investment and specialized fund and asset management group Babcock and Brown, a leading wind energy developer and operator, announced it has acquired seven Midwestern wind energy projects, under various stages of development, from Gamesa Energy USA and Navitas Energy, a subsidiary of Gamesa.
