The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. The panel will focus on the agency’s development of a rule that proposes revisions to the lead and copper rule. EPA’s reconsideration of the...
The nonprofit Clean Coalition has released the first of seven modules of its Local CLEAN Program Guide, a free, downloadable policy tool designed to help communities and utilities evaluate, design, and enact the most effective policies for the timely and cost-effective deployment of clean local energy. The first module provides an overview of Clean Local...
In March 2009, EPA released Version 1.0 of the WaterSense Product Certification System to guide its independent, third-party product certification process. Since that time more than 3,500 tank-type toilets, bathroom sink faucets and faucet accessories, showerheads, and flushing urinals have been certified to meet EPA’s criteria for efficiency and performance. As the WaterSense program continues...
Which technology is right for your energy efficient lighting retrofit? LED is the lighting technology everyone’s talking about. LEDs are in our flashlights, our cars — and increasingly — a viable option for energy efficient lighting retrofit projects. But how do you decide if LED lighting is the right technology for your project? Precision-Paragon [P2]...
Green cleaning has certainly come a long way, depending on the marketplace we are discussing. In the institutional and commercial marketplaces, which include offices, schools, public buildings, etc., green cleaning products are now selected over conventional products 35 percent to as high as 50 percent of the time. This not only includes cleaning chemicals made...
Intermittent renewables at high penetrations will bring new challenges for the grid. But how big will they be? And is it true that wind and solar will necessarily need storage or natural gas back-up at high levels? The International Energy Agency (IEA) wanted to know, so it modeled a variety of high-penetration scenarios in eight...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — EnerNOC’s Gregg Dixon compares the competition between on-site renewable energy generation versus reducing energy demand to an MTV celebrity death match. Which is more valuable? In one corner we have on-site renewable energy projects that tend to carry more sex appeal, largely due to the industry’s great job of marketing itself;...
Discovery Channel has a rather curious show called Myth Busters. The show evaluates various myths — from MacGyver tricks to the Apollo 11 Moon landing — by staging them in a controlled setting. You may wonder why this may be relevant to renewable energy. The truth is, this entertainment show has more things in common...
EPA Recycling Water Science