U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR program is launching The ENERGY STAR® Higher Education Benchmarking Initiative in July for 2 and 4 -year colleges and universities nationwide to understand how the energy and water performance of their campus …
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Amazon Renaming Seattle KeyArena to Climate Pledge Arena
Amazon bought the naming rights to Seattle’s new 18,100-seat downtown Hockey and women’s NBA arena, which it will call Climate Pledge Arena. It will be the world’s first zero net carbon certified arena and run …
Gas Stoves Negatively Impact Health Study Finds
A report by Rocky Mountain Institute, along with Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club, and Mothers Out Front, found that gas stoves can exacerbate conditions like asthma due to hazardous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and …
Coal Declines Shift Economics of Duluth Superior Shipping Port
The Port of Duluth-Superior, one of the largest shipping ports in the United States, is being impacted by the continuing decline in coal. Still its second largest commodity, 20 million tons of coal delivered to …
New York Retires Last Coal Plant
New York State’s aggressive Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed June 2019, which mandates carbon-free electricity by 2040 and a net-zero carbon economy by 2050, along with the state’s adoption of strict emissions rules and the …
U.S. Less than 25% Coal-Powered
Since 2010, more than 40 percent of the nation’s 530 coal-fired power plants (100GW of capacity) have been or are slated to be retired. Of those remaining in operation, Energy Information Administration data show that, in 2019, they …
Arc for All: Performance Metric Platform Now Free
We live in a world of data- the Arc platform takes that data and turn it into a performance score and a visual graphic. Now, Arc can be used for free. The Arc platform allows users to measure …
Energy Efficiency Makes A Mark on US Economy, Society & Health
Investments in energy efficiency since 1980 have prevented a 60% increase in energy consumption and carbon emissions and are responsible for half of the carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the US power sector since 2005. …
Building Learners: k-12 Students Tackle School’s Eco-footprint
The Center for Green Schools new Building Learners program empowers k-12 students to use their buildings as learning laboratories and master STEM concepts. Students use Arc to collect and analyze data, and they conduct real-world investigations that inform sustainability improvements at …
Wind turbine blade recycler trying to fit the pieces together at Iowa factory
Article originally published by Energy News Wind turbine blades are piled up outside a former Maytag plant in central Iowa where a company hopes to help recycle them into a wide range of products. Global …