A new $40.6 million cogeneration plant at BP Australia Ltd's Bulwer Island refinery would have a greenhouse gas emissions benefit of 90,000 tons a year, Queensland deputy premier Jim Elder said yesterday. Read More

A new partnership aims to help small businesses in the Wales tourism industry get a grip on their water woes. Read More

Maytag Appliances has teamed with three of country music’s brightest singers -- Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, and Jennifer Day -- to spread the word about the energy and water conservation benefits of high-efficiency appliances. The venue: a free, family concert series called Making Music Matter -- A Family Concert for Conservation. Read More

There are those for whom nature, in at least some of its manifestations, is sacred, beyond price. Perhaps nowhere are these conflicts more apparent than in the global climate-change arena. Read More

Spanish energy group Repsol YPF said yesterday it would seek to develop the use of farm waste as a fuel additive along with engineering firm Abengoa and sugar company Azucarera Ebro Agricolas. Read More

Firmaplus, a Malaysia-based waste management and processing firm, is seeking to turn waste, including that discharged by the country's palm oil industry, into a fortune, its chief executive officer said yesterday. Charles Miller said Firmaplus would be the first firm in Asia to use fermentation technology to process organic waste into high protein animal feed and fertilizer. Read More

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. says its new Prius car will be recycled at the end of its useful life, underlining the environmental credentials of the electric/gasoline hybrid vehicle soon to hit Europe's roads. Read More

Canada's Hydrogenics Corp., whose test stations are used by General Motors Corp., the U.S. Army and others to measure fuel cell performance, set terms yesterday on an initial public offering. Read More

Tesco Plc, the British food retailer, yesterday predicted its sales of organic food could reach a billion pounds annually in a few years as customers increasingly get a taste for "green" produce. Read More

Armstrong World Industries, the world's largest manufacturer of acoustical ceilings, has announced a program that allows building owners to recycle their old ceiling tiles rather than dump them in landfills. Read More