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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:February 23, 2005

News and Events DOE Project Leads to New Hydrogen Fueling Station in California DOE Awards $87.5 Million to 12 Vehicle Efficiency Projects EPA Launches Clean Energy Partnerships with 12 States and D.C. Massachusetts Offers $25 Million for Renewable Energy Credits First Hybrid SUV Makes List of Top Twelve Green Vehicles DOE Offers $1 Million to Help Industries Save EnergyEnergy ConnectionsLNG Terminals Move Ahead in the Gulf of Mexico News and Events DOE Project Leads to New Hydrogen Fueling Station in CaliforniaChevronTexaco opened its first hydrogen fueling station in Chino, California, last week, joined by Assistant Secretary of Energy David Garman and representatives of Hyundai-Kia and UTC Fuel Cells. The station is a major part of the DOE’s Hydrogen “Learning Demonstration,” which brings together automobile makers and energy companies to test fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen fueling systems in real-world conditions. Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage SUVs, powered by fuel cells manufactured by UTC Fuel Cells, will operate throughout Southern California and refuel at the ChevronTexaco hydrogen station. The hydrogen is produced on-site from natural gas, but the station will also have the future capability to convert other renewable fuel sources, such as ethanol, into hydrogen for refueling fuel cell vehicles.“On […]

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Could the Monarch Butterfly be on its Last Wings?

Poor weather among reasons insect population down 75 per cent By Mark Hume As she worked in her garden last summer Theresa Fowler noticed that something vital was missing.The species assessment specialist with the Canadian Wildlife Service didn’t find a single monarch butterfly caterpillar. Canada’s national insect, a big, brightly coloured butterfly that each year brings the countryside alive from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley to the East Coast, had all but vanished. Usually the milkweed plants Ms. Fowler nourishes on her property, because they are the only plant on which monarch larvae can live, are crawling with the distinctly marked caterpillars. “There weren’t any last year,” she said. “None.” A report yesterday pointed to an alarming collapse in the monarch butterfly population. Mexico’s Environment Department said that 75 per cent fewer monarch butterflies have appeared in 2005 compared to previous years, blaming cold weather and agricultural practices in Canada and the United States. The dramatic orange and black butterflies that Ms. Fowler usually sees on her property in Shawville, Que., north of Ottawa, and which are found across much of southern Canada, migrate nearly 5,000 kilometres each fall to Mexico. A second, smaller wintering area exists in California. But most […]

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