Long Term Care Insurance Leader Goes Green, Targeting a Million Gallons of Gasoline Saved Per Year
If Applied by All of America's Insurance Agents, their Approach Could Save Hundreds of Millions of Gallons KIRKLAND, Wash., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Going green can add green to the bottom line. That's the experience of LTC Financial Partners LLC (known in the industry as LTCFP...Agent Orange Linked to Parkinson's, Heart Disease
...he "broad-leaf defoliants" used in Vietnam to destroy vegetation to make enemy activity easier to spot. Between 1962 and 1970, more than 20 million gallons of herbicides were sprayed in the jungles of Vietnam so that American forces could fight more effectively; Agent Orange was the herbicide used most of...Julie Stav Reminds Hispanic Moms to Invest in Their Family's Wellness with Milk!
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...sumption per person is the equivalent of about 1.6 gallons (6.2 liters) of pure ethanol a year, or about 12 u...found to be highest in Europe, where it equals 3.1 gallons (11.9 liters) of ethanol (21.5 units a week). That compares with 2.5 gallons (9.4 liters) a year (18 units a week) in North Ame...Premiere Fibers Unveils New Logo, Names for Innovative Brands
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...nce.htm FACTS AND VISUALS: As they make their way through eight California counties, the cyclists collectively consume 420 gallons of coffee, 6,200 pounds of vegetables and 5,400 Pop Tarts. But they likely end up somewhat lighter, according to event organizers, because a 170-pound...AIDS/LifeCycle 8 to Raise $10+ Million to Fight AIDS
...with HIV/AIDS. FACTS AND VISUALS: As they make their way through eight California counties, the cyclists collectively consume 420 gallons of coffee, 6,200 pounds of vegetables and 5,400 Pop Tarts. But they likely end up somewhat lighter, according to event organizers, because a 170-pound...May 3rd - 9th is 'Drinking Water Week'
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...ng hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water and sand into major shale formations to help natural gas flow up a well, will need millions of gallons of water to complete the process at well sites. Water that returns to the surface, called flowback or produced water, is collected for reuse or dispos...Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought
...roduction in the U.S. is currently about 9 billion gallons and note that experts expect it to increase in the...rn-based bioethanol requires the use of 263 to 784 gallons of water from the farm to the fuel pump. But these...s water requirements can be as high as 861 billion gallons of water from the corn field to the fuel pump in 2...Plankton Power and RTDC announce proposed algae-to-biofuels pilot facility on Cape Cod
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...try industry each year, they estimate this process could create 153 million gallons of biodiesel annually in the U.S. and 593 million gallons worldwide. In addition, they note that removal of fat content from feather ...Researchers achieve major breakthrough with water desalination system
...ough to be transported anywhere in the back of a van, it can generate 6,000 gallons of drinking water per day from the sea or 8,000 to 9,000 gallons per day from brackish groundwater. By Cohen's estimate, that means producin...GEN reports on alternative feedstocks for ethanol production
...al pathway to produce fuel-grade ethanol that it contends can be cost-competitive with gasoline. The process reportedly is able to yield more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry biomass. Also discussed in the GEN article is biofuel research taking place at ICM, Qteros, Synthetic Genomics, Solazyme,...Rice University researchers ask if biofuels will lead to a 'drink or drive'
...eir point, the authors estimated it takes about 50 gallons of water to produce enough irrigated-corn ethanol ...ces and other factors, that number decreases to 23 gallons for Iowa-grown corn and rises to 115 gallons for Texas-grown sorghum. The debate over biofue...UCSB scientists document fate of huge oil slicks from seeps at coal oil point
...und when it struck a reef in the middle of the night. What happened next is considered one of the nation's worst environmental disasters: 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the pristine Alaskan waters, eventually covering 11,000 square miles of ocean. Now, imagine 8 to 80 times the amount of o...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009
...gest roadblock involves difficulty in scaling-up production from the small quantities of bioethanol that can be produced in the lab to the millions of gallons needed for commercial use. Other hurdles: Obtaining sufficient raw materials for commercial-scale production, financing construction costs in the hund...International Products Corp.'s Lab Offers Filter Membrane Compatibility and Studies
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..., S.D. is already using that process to produce ethanol at a rate of 20,000 gallons per year. Ethanol Summit 2009 is a platform for in-depth discussions o...ach to production. The 20-year-old company produces more than 1.54 billion gallons of ethanol annually from 26 production facilities nationwide. POET recentl...Research Reinforces Economic, Environmental Benefits of Corn Cobs as Source for Cellulosic Ethanol
...llulosic ethanol at a rate of approximately 20,000 gallons per year, and plans are on schedule for 25 million gallons per year of commercial production in Emmetsburg,...illion tons would be needed to produce 7.8 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel that our modeling projects t...REG Signs Agreement with Three Biodiesel Plants to Consolidate
...The facilities represent an additional 105 million gallons per year (MGY) of wholly-owned production capacity...ce and Security Act, the RFS calls for 500 million gallons of domestic biodiesel consumption ramping up to 1 billion biodiesel gallons in 2012. "We believe this proposed consol...BlueFire Ethanol To Present at BIO 2009 International Convention
...aster, California. The Lancaster facility will use post-sorted cellulosic wastes diverted from landfills in Southern California to produce 3.9 million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol per year. The company was also awarded $40 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for construction of a second plant in Sout...City of Baltimore to Evaluate New Generation Biofuels for Use in Boiler Applications
...blicensing its technology to qualified licensees. About The City of Baltimore The City of Baltimore consumes approximately 10 million gallons of fuel oil per year within the City and schools. The Baltimore City Department of Public Works Energy Office is implementing energy efficiency and re...Sugarcane Ethanol Industry Eager to Implement U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard
...n December of 2007. The new RFS, which the proposed EPA rules would implement, requires not only greater volumes of renewable fuels (36 billion gallons by 2022) but also that renewable fuels meet a minimum level of reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, ranging from 20% to 60%. However, apparently wit...