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Japan's CO2 emissions hit record high: official Tokyo (AFP) Nov 12, 2008 
Japan's carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high of 1.37 billion tons in the year to March 2008, well above the target set by the Kyoto Protocol, the environment ministry said Wednesday. The figure, which marked a 2.3 percent rise from the previous fiscal year, was mainly the result of more polluting energy production following the closure of the world's biggest nuclear power plant after ... read moreTroubled GM says it is profitable in China, will continue to invest 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 12, 2008Troubled General Motors said Wednesday that it was making money in China and was continuing its investments in the large Asian market. "We are continuing our investment in China and actually we are very profitable in China," said Henry Wong, a Shanghai-based spokesman for the biggest US auto maker. He told AFP that various investment projects GM had committed itself to in the past were ... more
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ADA-ES Begins Work On DOE Contract For Development Of Clean Coal Technology
Littleton CO (SPX) Nov 13, 2008ADA-ES has announced that it is now under contract and has started work on the Department of Energy (DOE) project that the Company was awarded in July to develop clean coal technology that will capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. ADA-ES will be the prime contractor for a $3.2 million project with the DOE-s National Energy Technology Laboratory. This program is ... more White Vans Go Green 
Agoura Hills CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2008As if the drivers of mini vans and utility vehicles needed any more encouragement to drive fast between jobs, US researchers have designed a new rear spoiler for bluff-backed vehicles that can reduce drag and lift significantly. Writing in the International Journal of Vehicle Design, the team describes how the new spoiler could improve fuel consumption as well as vehicle handling. ... more Walker's World: Business as usual at EU 
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) Nov 12, 2008 Three months ago, with the oil price in the $140-a-barrel stratosphere, Russia sent its troops into Georgia for a prolonged punitive raid and the governments of the West did little beyond some fairly routine mutterings to deplore and condemn the incursion. The European Union, however, in a rare show of decisive unity, suspended the meandering talks on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement ... more  |
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Air New Zealand and Boeing Announce Date Of Biofuels Test Flight
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 13, 2008Air New Zealand and Boeing have announced Dec. 3 as the date for the airline's sustainable biofuels flight from Auckland using a 747-400 jetliner. Conducted in partnership with Rolls-Royce and UOP, a Honeywell company, one of the airplane's four Rolls-Royce RB211 engines will be powered in part using advanced generation biofuels derived from jatropha. Air New Zealand now becomes the first ... more South Dakota: A Leader In Consumer Choice At The Pump 
Sioux Falls SD (SPX) Nov 13, 2008Consumers in South Dakota are reaping the benefits of the blender pump program offered by the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council (SDCUC) and the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). Forty-five stations have filed applications to receive grants to install blender pumps and to date, 34 stations are operational. For years, E10 (10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline) and E85 ... more Italian police find massive illegal waste dump near Naples 
Rome (AFP) Nov 12, 2008Italian police uncovered Wednesday one million cubic metres (35.3 million cubic feet) of illegal waste dumped in a disused quarry near a hospital in the southern city of Naples. "This is a very big and ongoing operation which began this morning," police spokesman Salvatore Vaporieri told AFP. "The waste we have found, which is mainly industrial waste, is considered dangerous," he added. ... more China to boost export tax incentives as it battles crisis 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 12, 2008China said Wednesday it would boost tax incentives for more than a quarter of export products, in the government's latest move to help shield its economy from the global financial crisis. The State Council, or Cabinet, agreed to hike tax rebates on 3,770 export items, or 27.9 percent of all products shipped by China, with effect from December 1, the central government said in a statement on ... more |
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