Tag: Illinois - Page 3
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Contemplations On Obama's DeSmogBlog "Award," Blogging, And Presidential Politics
DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama
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FutureGen's Plan to Bring CCS to Illinois in Trouble?
Well, that was fast: It was little more than a week ago that we'd heard that a government-industry alliance was getting set to pump $1.76 billion into a so-called "clean coal" power plant in Illinois; now, because of cost issues, the DOE seems to be
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Amtrak: Still in the Red, But There's Green At the End of the Tunnel
Despite numerous challenges, including delays, derailments and 'dinero' (or a lack thereof), Amtrak is enjoying its fifth-straight year of record ridership across the country. The usual suspects are driving people (pun intended) to take the train:
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Southern Illinois To Sequester Wisconsin's C02
Here's a real question: if the FutureGen carbon sequestration project goes to Texas
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Other States to Adopt California's Emissions Standards, Sue Pants Off EPA
The 11 other states that have clutched California's tough emissions standards against their legislative bosoms: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey (whoo hoo!), New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
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Using Sweet-Toothed Bacteria to Produce Hydrogen
Aside from crop-based biofuels, few sectors of renewable energy have attracted as much attention as microbial fuel cells. With companies like LS9 and Amyris leading the way, the idea of engineering bacteria to produce new sources of energy has become
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How Air Pollution May Cause Heart Disease
We've already told you on several occasions (most recently here and here) of the link scientists have discovered between higher emissions and deteriorating cardiovascular health. A new study from researchers at Northwestern University has now shown how
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It's BP Time Again
BP had this summer been telling the City of Chicago that 'they didn't have enough room' to upgrade their nearby refinery's wastewater treatment plant (pictured). Right. Chicago ain't buyin' it either.
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Illinois Ups The Pressure On BP - Looking At Indiana-Issued Air Permit
Yesterday we commented about The Chicago Sun Times taking an editorial position in favor of a BP fuel boycott in the Chicago, Illinois area, offered in response to more liberal wastewater discharge permit conditions, granted by neighboring Indiana to a
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Chicago Gets BP To Reopen Lake Michigan Discharge Permit Discussion
There's a right way to negotiate a refinery wastewater discharge permit limit that affects huge numbers of people around a resource of international prominence. You get all the stakeholders around a table, state the goal, examine the trade-offs, and
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Chicago Still Fighting For Future Of Lake Michigan..And Cheap Gas
We TreeHugger writers are sometimes advised that society 'can't buy its way out of climate change' solely by shopping for green "stuff" and reshaping individual lifestyles. Similarly, the folks are Grist are fond of saying that the prospect of
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That's Some Strong Paper!
Using the same flaky material found in your everyday pencil — graphite — a research team from Northwestern University has developed a new type of superstrong, superthin paper that could be used as a hydrogen storage material in fuel cells, protective
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Restoring Farmland to Wetlands
Perhaps this statement best captures the thrust of a project sponsored by the Wetlands Initiative to restore wetlands in the Midwest: "It's like dialysis for water systems." The 2,600-acre project in Hennepin, Illinois, backed by the Wetlands
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The Next Bright Idea: Aluminum Foil for Lamps
Fluorescent lights may soon be a thing of the past: a team of researchers from the University of Illinois are developing panels of microcavity plasma lamps that could be used for residential and commercial lighting as well as for certain biomedical
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USG Registers New HQ For LEED Gold - For Commercial Interiors
USG Corporation (NYSE:USG) announced that it has registered its new headquarters, 550 W. Adams St., Chicago, Illinois, USA, as LEED for Commercials Interiors (CI) registered space, the U.S. Green Building Council's voluntary rating standard for green
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Down On Eco-Boulevard
To promote its Engineering an Empire series, the History Channel "recently gave select architects in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles seven days to come up with a design for their city 100 years from now, something that "like the marvels of past
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Illinois Man Fined Thousands And Threatened With Felony Prosecution For Using Untaxed Biodiesel
Via Daily Kos Diary, "...David Wetzel, a 79 yr old retired chemist from Decatur IL had been using recycled vegetable oil in his 1985 Volkswagen Golf diesel car for 7 years. This January, " the State of Illinois Dept. of Revenue sent 2 "special agents,"
