Environmental Management

A Senate appropriations bill includes a key provision expected to advance a Montana Coal-and-Biomass-To-Liquids (CBTL) pilot project, which is projected to bring hundreds of new jobs to Montana and create new markets for Montana coal and camelina

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Despite growing awareness of the problem of plastic pollution in the world's oceans, little solid scientific information existed to illustrate the nature and scope of the issue

Picarro, the maker of the world's highest precision and easiest to use gas analyzers, unveiled its new 2000 series analyzer platform to meet the needs of the world's most discriminating scientists

LanzaTech has successfully produced 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD), a key building block used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, using the company's gas fermentation technology. LanzaTech CEO Dr Jennifer Holmgren says the New Zealand clean tech company is the first to demonstrate that this platform chemical can be produced via fermentation from gases

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com ) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, recently received an order for 18 C65 microturbines for one of the world's largest independent oil and natural gas companies

As part of its continuing commitment to enhance the accreditation program for greenhouse gas (GHG) validation and/or verification bodies (V/VBs), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the American Carbon Registry.

The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) today applauded Rothsay Biodiesel, a division of Maple Leaf Foods Inc, for its celebrated success in cutting CO2 emissions at the recent Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest

As a major component of Merichem Company's relaunch as a worldwide technologies-solution partner to the hydrocarbon industries and others, the company also has relaunched its website, www.merichem.com, to provide easy access to a broad range of innovative products and services.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing two rules to ensure that businesses planning to build new, large facilities or make major expansions to existing ones will be able to obtain Clean Air Act permits that address their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions