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The Air Movement and Control Association uses a state-of-the-art facility to test air handling equipment.
Battles are being waged against the EPA in neighborhoods where industrial pollution leaves the air heavy and foul-smelling.
President Bush calls it the most promising, untapped source of oil in America. But how much oil is there really in the Alaska refuge?
When a Southwest Airlines plane skidded off the runway at Midway Airport, specialists were needed to remove the plane from the intersection.
What if your appliances could sense a power line stress and adjust themselves accordingly? Read about the possibilities.
Global warming has accelerated faster than the talks that are aimed to slow it down.
The latest technology for seniors was unveiled at the White House Conference on Aging.
With oil and other commodities soaring, prices surging out of control was on the minds of all. Thankfully, that is not what happened in 2005.
People are beginning to wonder if the unhealthy air is causing more than just asthma and other respiratory problems.
State energy regulators unveil one of the most comprehensive programs to expand the solar power market.
Two years ago the Chief Engineer Magazine reported on the Maytag plant closing. Today, things are not as bad as had been feared.
The passage of a new state law could force employers to serve jail time if they ignore safety violations on the job.
The EPA will go ahead with plans to test inside some lower Manhattan buildings for World Trade Center dust.
U.S. and Canadian governments are now working on an update to the agreement reached more than three decades ago regarding the Great Lakes.
Earth's magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and towards Siberia.
We may have to get used to high gas and heating costs since tight energy markets are projected through 2006.
Flat screen TVs, cool learning and technology team up to make learning fun for students.
A census of the ocean's marine life shows evidence of a rich diversity along with warnings about alarming declines of many species.
The newest surveillance equipment will not only keep an eye on but will give vandals a good talking to.
An increasing number of power outages means backup plans must take center stage.
Accurately measuring leakage in ductwork can save on energy consumption.
Company revolutionizes lighting by producing a bulb that provides as much light and uses less power.
Community leaders are busy hammering out a plan to rebuild Mississippi's coastline devastated by hurricane Katrina.
Alternative means of powering automobiles are urged such as using ethanol produced from corn, wood chips, stalks, and switch grass.
The laws of nature seem to be working against traditional cooling towers. Read how new technology is quickly tackling this problem.
A once-dead lake, ravanged by acid rain, has become a symbol of nature's ability to heal itself.
New tax credits for 2006 include home improvements and hybrid vehicles.
A boost in energy rates is agreed upon to encourage construction of new generating plants and ease transmission woes.
Biodiesel is becoming one of the biggest opportunities to put farms back on an economic future.
Report outlines suggestions for ensuring a reliable and adequate energy supply in the future for Florida.
Business and science groups are urging Congress to spend millions to recruit and train high-caliber math teachers.
Heavily industrialized areas of Indiana are at increased risk of cancer due to air pollution.
Automaker announces the building of a new hybrid model.
Security window film has become a high priority in protecting today's high-rise buildings.
Operators of the internet highway, major U.S. phone companies, want to give priority treatment to those who will pay to get through the internet faster.
Big Oil left Brooklyn long ago, but the industry's legacy still bubbles beneath the surface.
Preliminary details are revealed to make the redeveloped site as terrorism-proof as possible.
Budget cuts could jeopardize the future of environmental satellites, important tools for forecasting hurricanes and predicting global warming.
Sen. Barack Obama urges the time has come for energy independence.
Michigan has been granted the right to protect the water in the Great Lakes basin.
Flu Wiki offers up-to-date information on bird flu in addition to government and medical groups.
EPA team continues to clean up hazardous chemicals left by Hurricane Katrina.
Efforts to drop a coffee mug from a second-story window are recognized nationally.
Using natural lighting has the potential to cut energy use, reduce peak demand and create a more desireable indoor environment.
What Does Safety Mean To You? was the topic of the annual ASSE Poster contest.
Old Greenwood in Truckee, CA, becomes the only golf facility to receive LEED status.
Keep informed, develop a plan and implement public health programs to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
The new Central Public Library sets an example for sustainable building design.
State task force investigates the uprise of well contaminations.
A Design Guide provides best-practice recommendations for VAV system design.
Do you know what you will buying ten years from now? Battelle might.
Homeland Security Secretary outlines a fix for safeguarding chemical plants from terrorists. But is it enough?
Inside air can be more polluted than outside air. Find out how to protect the air quality inside your home.
It's all about the light of a regular cloudy day in Oregon.
Attitude is everything - even in creating a safe workplace.
High market prices for copper and aluminum are enticiing thieves to steal metal to sell for scrap.
Peoples Energy resolves lawsuits by the city and state.
While Caller ID is an impressive new technology, don't always believe that who caller ID says it is, is truly on the other end of the line.
Despite rules protecting them, the wetlands continue to disappear.
California works to encourage people to install solar panels on their roofs.
Microsoft is focused on security and other areas which could be delaying the newest release of its Windows Operating system.
Wal-Mart is throwing its weight behind organics, forcing competitors to keep up.
As homeowners struggle with high energy bills, they look to "green" buildings for help in solving the problem.
Teens are taking a stand: Do something to combat the effects of global warming.
Families on fixed or modest incomes find themselves cutting back on luxuries to meet today's high gas prices.
Scientists are looking to Japan for clues as to the long-term health effects of the Chernobyl explosion.
Old and outdated pumping systems are replaced by new and more energy efficient ones.
IFMA surveys its members to assess the level of concern and steps taken to prepare for the bird flu threat.
University of Illinois researchers are using the "other end" of the animal to make black gold.
Homeland Security says inspectors at U.S. airports do not have enough training to keep bird flu from entering the country.
Bob Egbert commutes to work like most. Unlike most, he is never stuck in traffic and never spends a penny on gas.
Schools are finding new and inventive ways to develop an interest in vocational education.
Heating and cooling your home has become more affordable thanks in part to a recently enacted energy bill.
Algae can produce more oil than soybeans or canola. Now it is being investigated as an alternative fuel source.
Creosote is being removed from the soil by a new boiling process with hopes of speeding up the cleanup time.
Pollution from power plants and burning forests is making its way from Asia to the Washington state shores.
Check to see if your school is energy efficient by reading through these guidelines.
Capsule returns with dust hoping to yield clues to how the solar system was formed.
Once shunned as a high-sulfer polluter, Illinois coal is enjoying a comeback fueld by the proliferation of cleaner-burning power plants.
Visitors to Denali National PArk and Preserve often are awe-struck by North America's highest mountain, standing majestically in the Alaska interior.
An avian flu pandemic, which would unleash disaster across many areas of the world, requires global, holistic planning by companies.
In an era of accelerating gas prices, experts say vanpooling is a phenomenon whose time has come.
A building's performance is sensitive to the amount of outside air that is brought inside- too little results in poor indoor air quality, and too much results in wasted energy used to condition the excess air.
When Gail Robertson was looking for more space to entertain guests, she began by clearing the weeds from her overgrown back yard rather than scheduling a makeover of the house.
When Kimberly McClain noticed herself struggling to remember simiple details, even what her family had for dinner the night before, she got worried.
The relatively brief history of the automobile echoes with romantic stories of lost causes, underserved failures, great ideas unheeded, righteous hopes dashed, prophets before their tiime, and heroes overwhelmed.
All around are advanced alternative energy projects that testify to the war on oil that's proceeding uietly at laboratories and research centers across the country.
Formally called Mobile Automotive Technology Testbed, or MATT, the bare-bones chassis plays a vital part in the research at Argonne National Laboratory into new ways to power vehicles.
Billions of dollars in expansion plans by North Carolina's largest utilites are frustrating environmentalists, who say the companies and their customers are ignoring key answers to the problem of skyrocketing demand.
At every business level, big or small, Ocupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations apply to the use of, and exposure to, the chemicals and other substances found there.
For about 200 Spring Mills School students, getting their hands dirty has never been so educational.
Over the past few years, a growing number of camps have tapped to the expertise of the Internet startup businesses for e-mail services, online videos and photos to help parents stay in touch with their childern.
Improving their public image and their bottom line, major corporations are moving from using less paper to demanding the paper they use comes from environmentally sustainable sources, and letting stockholders and customers know they are doing it.
...The once crystalline water that made Silver Springs the stat'e first tourist attraction is now clouded by a thick, brownish sludge. The algae, a byproduct of burgeoning nitrate levels, clings to the eelgrass, making it difficult to glimpse sea life in their brilliant turquoise limestone home.
Now biologists and criminalists from around the world are joining forces to develop crime-scene investigation techniques that work under water.
New Orleans is still woefully unprepared for catastrophes 10 months after Hurricane Katrina, and two cities attacked on 9/11 don't meet all guidlines for responding to major disasters, a federal security analysis concluded.
To help reduce energy use, the Department of Energy and its building America partners conduct research to develp advanced building energy systems...
Seven states are aggressively trying to land a billion dollar power plant prototype that's virtually pollution free.
A red flag went up when icty officials in Chanpaign and Urbana heard that an ethanol plant propsed nearby would use about 2 million gallons of water per day.
The buildings in which we work, shop, and educate our childern use about $80 billion worth of electricity and natural gas each year.
Wallace Heidlemark was sentenced to 24 months in prision and was ordered to pay a large fine for asbestos violations.
"Biosecurity" is the buzzword du jour at chicken, turkey and egg operations across the United States.
Designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining buildings involves large amounts of energy, water, and other resources and creates significant amounts of waste.
Illinois students will have to pay $2351 to $2828 more in college loans according to a new report released by the research arm of the Campaign for America's Future.
During lockout/taout, a person authorized by the company places lacks and/or tags on energy-isolating devices before working on that equipment, and only that person can remove those locks and tags.
APS, Solargenix, Inc. and Schott North America, Inc. commemorated the completion of the first solar thermal parabolic trough power plant to be buit in Arizona on Earth Day, April 22, 2006.
Many of people in New Jersey, New york, and Pennsylvania are at risk from a terrorist attack or accident at chemical plants in the Garden State.
The federal Homeland Security Department found that only 40 percent of Illinois' plans can be considered "sufficient."
The mine simulators at Hazard Community and Technical College in eastern Kentucky give students interested in a career in mining or rookies in the industry a taste of underground dangers without risking their lives.
While much of the world fumes over escalating fule prices, a small company in north central Iowa is quietly hoping to make gasoline obsolete as an engine fuel.
By reaching for the moon and Mars, NASA is letting go of aviation reasearch that was the foundation for the nation's journey into space.
Radar technology may soon make devices methods available to detect moisture and mold in walls.
Merwede Shipyards is one of the production companies belonging to IHC Caland N.V.
Technical seminar focusing on air movement and equipment vibration planned for December in Arlington Heights, Illinois
To a child, many things can classify as a disaster.
In Fresno, California, the morgue is full of victims from the heat wave.
The "green streets" are just another part of the environmentally concious Pringle Creek Community Development.
NASCAR officials were pleased with their first test of unleaded fuel and remain on schedule to have the gas in all of its series by 2007.
It's over budget, Paul Pedini says of his Big Dig house, but at least "it doesn't leak."
Illinois' duel with Texas for the world's first new near-zero-emissions coal power plant continues.
Researchers say they have come close to unlocking the secrets of earthquake prediction.
Everyone in the United States has a role to play to make the Clean Air Act a success.
Barbara Kavovit makes tools- just for women.
Five New York City firefighters have traded skyscrapers and subways for pinetrees and canoes.
The Chicagoland Better Heating-Cooling Council (CBHCC) has presented its Jeffrey W. Berg Member Service Award to longtime CBHCC broad member John O'Brien Jr. of GHC Mechanical, Inc.
Growing scientific evidence suggests the most widespread industrial contaminant in drinking water- a solvent used in adhesives, paint, and spot removers- can cause cancer in people.
No new leaks of tritium- a potential carcinogen- have been found in a study of Exelon Corp.'s 11 nuclear plants.
Many motorists seeking to improve their mileage as gas prices soar are examining everything- right down to the air in their tires.
Since gaining favor as an alternative fuel, demand for corn-derived ethanol has made the kerneled crop a hot commodity.
Since 2001, M innesota's utilities have been required to offer customers the green pricing option.
The 1990 Clean Air Act has provisions for fixing the holes, but repairs will take a long time.
The Sundancer solar race car team defended its title at Texas Motor Speedway, as it sought to capture the checkered flag at the 11th annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
ASHRAE is looking for students to select and design an HVAC&R system to turn a distribution building into a biotech research building.
The Air Movement and Control Association International to host Technical Seminar in December
It burns nostrils and stings the throat, this is the stench simmering from the floor of the cavernous trash-to-energy plant in Hartford's Meadows.
the first utility-grade wind farm proposed in Virginia is hailed by its supporters as clean energy that can help stem global warming and rising fuel prices.
The football field stays put, but the big blue scoreboard will move.
Of all the technologies available to maintain pipelines, one of the most critical devices evokes images of a muddy farm animal- the pig.
Clowning is serious business for Terry Ricketts- at least in between the chortles and chuckles he so loves to hear.
Sitting around their steamy University of Vermont conference room, the discussion was both academic and technical, esoteric and political.
The Woodward Dream Cruise started 12 years ago as a one-day chance for classic car owners to show off their stuff.
For decades, the Becks and families like them lived off Electrolux, one of the world's largest makers of home appliances...
"The flash I had was that we no longer look for Russian planes in the sky, but we do look for bad things in luggage," Bereron said.
Jon Spiers had two portable generators ready for Hurricane Katrina, but both failed. His solution was a generator attached to his house that ran on propane.
Reyes head an Oregon State University team that's built a quater -scale model of the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear plant.
Scientists say the oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought.
Mikkel Hansen's guest house is tucked away in the woods on a sand dune. Built on eight posts, it is surrounded by mature trees.
In case you are one of the very few who don't know what Sudoku is, sit back and read up on the newest craze sweeping the nation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program developed a labeling protocol for energy-efficient external power supplies.
An exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art seeks to illustrate how design infuses our lives in much more important and lasting ways.
The is no off-season for the Essex Inn, and that's why the hotel puts a premium on an HVAC system that operates reliably and efficiently.
A trip during a winter sotrm can be a nightmare- be prepared!
One engineering professor responsible for teaching classes about differential equations and electromagnetism has created a popular course that merges his research world with the world of fine art.
Pennsylvania is poised to adopt pollution standards that would require new cars to be cleaner burning a year from now.
Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming.
Waste oil from food joints is just one option for today's vegetable-powered driver.
The first two panoramic TWIN systems in the world have been installed and put into operation in the Main Triangel building in Frankfurt by ThyssenKrupp Aufzuge.
Researcher are studying whether microbes can be manipulated by science to expand the life of coal-bed methane wells in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming.
Xcel Energy said it is committing $3.5 million through 2007 to develop a so-called clean coal plant in Colorado based on integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Technology
BP under scrutiny by federal officials for poor management of America's largest oil field.
Scientists at the University of Tennessee have discovered a new database containing records of dozens of previously undocumented hurricanes- in trees.
Millionaires, doctors, and teachers are feeling the fleeting freedom of weightlessness.
Coal-fired plants are growing in numbers, but so are the questions regarding the pollution they can emmit.
Rapid growth in the wind turbine business has prompted German manufacturer Siemens Ag to build its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Iowa.
The public can now view a Web site showing current information about wild bird sampling for early detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Amid growing consumer interest in renewable fuels, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson announced a voluntary initiative that encourages the nation's businesses to try out ethanol and biodiesel.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps has sevveral exhibits that use sound, lighting, and temperature changes to help visitors experience Marine history.
The U.N. forecasts a dire future for Africa if global temperatures continue to rise.
An energy company celebrated the Statue of Liberty's 120th anniversary by announcing that the statue's torch is now lit with "green" or environmentally friendly power generated by Pennsylvania windmills.
More than 500 new energy drinks launced world wide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why.
Arizona utility regulators approved new rules to ramp up the state's requirements for electricity providers to use power from solar, wind, and other renewable sources.
Reclining against the turnk of a western hemlock tree, arms behind his head, Gordon Hempton listens closely to the quiet symphony of nature.
Initial test results on a segment of pipeline in the Prudhoe Bay oil field indicate that the line is serviceable.
Today, the majority of people lose their jobs not because they messed up or made some costly mistakes at work, but because they didn't understand "workplace politics".
The bio-diesel industry is evolving in many ways, much like computer technology has evolved.
More research into boosting corn yields and improving ethanol production is urgently needed if the nation is to improve its food and energy needs, scientists warned.
An authoritative new U.N. assessment of how Earth's climate is changing- its temperature rising, polar ice melting, oceans expanding- should have "major impact" on the political debate over dealing with global warming.
This session will consist of several case study presentations that examine various energy-efficiency strategies and obstacles.
Lights in the bathrooms of hotels, senior living centers, and nursing homes are frequently left on for extended periods of time for various reasons. This is, however, a waste of energy.
the Brockton Brightfield is the largest solar energy plant in New England, and the largest brownfiled in the nation.
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