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Cargill Announces Plans for Biodiesel Facility in Kansas City
Cargill and the Missouri Soybean Association have announced plans for a 40-million gallon-per-year biodiesel plant and 30-million-pound food-grade glycerin refinery adjacent to Cargill's existing soybean processing facility in Kansas City. Read More
European Vintners to Sell Surplus Wine as Biofuel
European vehicles will be running on distilled French and Italian wine again this summer as the upcoming season's surplus production from European vineyards is turned into biofuel. Read More
Fetzer Vineyards to Host U.S. Wine Industry's Largest Solar Array
Fetzer Vineyards has announced a collaborative effort to develop the largest solar energy vineyard project in the U.S. Read More
London to Cut Emissions with Radically Green Building Regs
London's new developments will have to generate 20% of their own energy from renewables as the capital radically revises its development plan to cut carbon emissions, Mayor Ken Livingstone has announced. Read More
Harnessing Daylight for Energy Savings
Designing buildings properly and controlling glare and solar heat gain can cut energy bills by more than half. By David Kozlowski Read More
Are renewable energy credits (RECs) and carbon offsets exchanged in totally different markets, with little crossover potential f
ClimateBiz expert Dr. Mark C. Trexler tackles your questions on managing climate risk. Read More
Albertsons Nets 1 Billion Kilowatt Hours
Boise-based Albertsons says it has saved about 1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity since 2000 by continually improving new store designs and aggressively retrofitting old ones. By Linda Anderson Read More
Additives May Save Energy for Cooling Big Buildings
A National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher has come up with a method designed to improve the energy efficiency of water chillers that cool large commercial buildings. Read More
Aggressive Initiatives Save Fuel at UPS Airlines
Rising fuel prices have prompted UPS to accelerate a fuel conservation program that's now saving more than $1 million each month in fuel costs while reducing the airline's impact on the environment. Read More
AMD to Power Austin Campus with 100% Renewable Energy
The microprocessor maker has agreed to purchase green energy derived from renewable resources that will power all AMD Austin operations for the next ten years including the new AMD Austin Campus, which is expected to be operational in 2007. Read More