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EPA has announced a first ever competition among buildings and 14 short listed buildings from all over US will compete with each other in The National Building Competition to reduce their energy use and waste. Isn’t this an innovative challenge and good motivation to earn energy stars and other points and stand out as most energy efficient winner? [...]

Sarah Palin believes that oil is here to stay for the US, and that renewable energy and domestic oil development should go hand-in-hand. “Alternative sources of energy are part of the answer, but only part. There’s no getting around the fact that we still need to ‘drill, baby, drill!’ And if those in D.C. say otherwise, we need to tell [...]

Perhaps to make Earth Day 2009 more significant, carbon dioxide (CO2) was officially categorized as a pollutant by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This overhauls the grand scheme of things through the climate change bill which has already survived the US House of Representatives, and is awaiting an equal approval by the US Senate. The impending [...]

Refrigerators are one of the most common electric appliances used by everybody throughout the world. The refrigerants used in them, like HFCs and HCFCs have a role to play in increasing global warming. In this regard, the electrical appliances company, GE has appealed to the US Environmental Protection Agency through it’s Significant New Alternatives [...]

UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company has publicized its foremost purchase of the latest hydraulic hybrid vehicles (HHV) on the 27th of this month at Atlanta’s Centennial Park. David Abney, chief operating officer, UPS was joined by representatives of the EPA, the Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN) and Navistar (NYSE:NAV) at the news conference. [...]