Environmental Management

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced recently the creation of the Carbon Capture and Storage Simulation Initiative with an investment of up to $40M from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

About 2,500 leading water experts are convening in Stockholm for the 20th annual World Water Week, which opened this morning with calls for better facilitated efforts addressing escalating global water challenges.

Experts at the World Water Week in Stockholm discussed today means to address water pollution and its effect on ecosystems by finding the source of pollution "upstream."

Whilst millions of commuters, and the traveling public, face travel misery due to the strike by London Underground workers, many of the 6,000+ employees of clients at Avanta's 16 Central and Greater London business centres are avoiding the chaos by commuting 'electronically' to work. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday

American Superconductor Corporation, a global power technologies company, today announced that it has received an initial order for 17 wind turbine electrical control systems from Inox Wind Limited (IWL), part of India's Inox Group of Companies. The electrical control systems will be deployed in 2 megawatt (MW) doubly-fed induction wind turbines licensed from AMSC's wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary under a contract announced in May 2009

The U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest, has awarded the Accord MACTEC 8A JV, an SBA approved Mentor Protégé Joint Venture between Accord Engineering Inc. and MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc., a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract

Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged in federal court, the City of Revere, Mass. will significantly reduce illegal discharges of raw sewage overflows into the environment from its wastewater collection system and separate storm sewer system.

TradeFair Group announced recently that Stuart E. Nance, Vice President, Marketing, Ultra Petroleum Corp., will be delivering the Opening Keynote on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 8:30 - 9:15am, and Thomas L. Price, Vice President Marketing, Business Development, and Facility Planning, El Paso Western Pipelines, will be delivering the Luncheon Keynote, on Tuesday, October 12, 12:15 - 1:45pm, at the LDC Gas Forum Rockies/West

Days before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) kicks off a series of regional hearings across the United States on whether and how to regulate toxic coal ash waste from coal-fired power plants, a major new study identifies 39 additional coal ash dump sites in 21 states that are contaminating drinking water or surface water with arsenic and other heavy metals.