Yearly Archives: 2014
Congratulations to Louisville for being in the top 25 cities for most Energy Star certified buildings. Louisville also ranks #3 for mid-size cities behind Columbus OH and San Jose CA. Other Kentucky cities made the top 10 rankings for small cities and include Elizabethtown at #1, Owensboro, London, Bowling Green and Richmond. http://www.energystar.gov/buildings/press-room/top-10-cities-2014/top-25-cities
EPA announced on Wednesday, March 19th, that notifications of substantial risk under section 8(e) of the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) and voluntary for your information (FYI) submissions can be filed electronically. TSCA section 8(e) states ‘‘Any person who manufactures, processes, or distributes in commerce a chemical substance or mixture and who obtains information which reasonably supports […]
Science Daily reported this week that Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are researching the viability of turning plastic shopping bags into diesel fuel using a pyrolysis process. The University team looked into a mixture of distillate fractions to provide the equivalent of ultra-low sulfur diesel, and were able to blend up to […]
On Friday March 28, 2014, the Obama administration released its Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions as part of its Climate Action Plan. Methane accounts for nearly 9 percent of the domestic greenhouse gas emissions and is the second largest greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. The White House said while methane emissions in the United States […]
We told you last week that the USACE and EPA had issued a proposed rule defining key provisions of the Clean Water Act. Click here for that blog entry. The most substantial change in the new rule is the proposed deletion of the existing regulatory provision that defines “waters of the “United States”. Waters in […]