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Monday, November 10th, 2008
For the first time in a more than a decade, California plans to reinstate the drought bank. Over 740 million cubic meters of water could change hands next year. In September, the California Department of Water Resources announced the creation of a 2009 Drought Water Bank. The drought water bank ...
Posted in Finance, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Sustainability, Water, Water-Filtration, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, released the nation's first code of ethics for wind-energy companies last week. The code is an effort to resolve an investigation AG Cuomo began in July related to alleged improprieties in the actions of two wind-power companies in soliciting local support for large scale ...
Posted in Electricity, Finance, Green-Chemistry, Industry-News, Start-ups, Sustainability, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, law | No Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Venture capital firms invested a record $1.6 billion in Q3 2008, up 55% from the previous quarter, in U.S. cleantech companies, according to a new analysis by Ernst & Young. A total of $3.3 billion was invested in the first three quarters of 2008, surpassing the figure for the same ...
Posted in Biofuels, Carbon, Energy-Storage, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Solar-Energy, Venture Capital, biomass, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Energy efficiency has enormous promise for most developing economies. The investment yields in energy efficiency over the next two decades will generally be several times higher in the developing world, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Developing countries could invest $90 billion annually over the next 12 ...
Posted in CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, India, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability, Water, law | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Posted in Agriculture, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Lifecycles, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Russia, Sustainability, law | No Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Evergreen Energy is at risk of becoming the clean energy casualty in the current credit crisis.
The clean coal technology company has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it is not in compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standard for minimum share price under Rule 5.5(b)(2) of the ...
Posted in Eco-Efficiency, Finance, Industry-News, Solar-Energy, Start-ups, green-technology, law | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
New York plans to fast-track the approval process for a huge influx of natural gas wells that could bring the state more than $1 billion in annual revenue. The trouble is the wells could put the state's water supplies at risk of contamination.
The surge in energy prices earlier this year ...
Posted in Bioremediation, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Water, law, materials | No Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Nearly 30 million people rode Amtrak trains in the past year, the highest number of passengers to take Amtrak trains in a single year since the National Railroad Passenger Corporation began keeping records in 1971. The spike in oil prices earlier this year triggered an unprecedented rise in ...
Posted in Green-Cars, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, green-technology, law | No Comments »
