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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:February 18, 2004

*News and Events Dow Installs a 75-Kilowatt GM Fuel Cell, Earns DOE Kudos Engineers Find Economical Way to Make Hydrogen from Ethanol New Hampshire Slated to Earn Ethanol Exemption; California Wants In Natural-Gas and Hybrid-Electric Cars Top Green List Five Power Companies Commit to Clean Energy, Cap Greenhouse Gases Florida Power & Light Launches Green Power Program Dow Installs a 75-Kilowatt GM Fuel Cell, Earns DOE KudosDow Chemical Company began drawing on a 75-kilowatt fuel cell to help power its Texas Operations site in Freeport, Texas, on February 10th. The fuel cell, manufactured by General Motors Corporation (GM), marks the first concrete step in a Dow-GM fuel cell collaboration first announced in May 2003. Dow produces the hydrogen fuel for the fuel cell as a byproduct of its chemical manufacturing process; currently, Dow either burns the hydrogen in its boilers or sells it to industrial gas companies. Although the new installation is a test that will last four to six months, with more fuel cells to be added this summer, Dow and GM plan to eventually install 35 megawatts of fuel cells. That would meet two percent of the power needs for Dow’s Texas Operations site, which is Dow’s largest […]

UK C02 Emission Cuts Hit Power, Offshore Sector

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Husky Fuels Up New Ethanol Plant in Western Canada

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E-Waste Meeting Ends Without Final Agreement

Author: Environment News Service Provider: SustainableBusiness.com News PORTLAND, Oregon, February 16, 2004 (ENS) – Three years of negotiations by industry, government and environmental stakeholders ended last week without final agreement on how to solve the nation's growing e-waste crisis. Stakeholders had come together in a last-ditch attempt to frame a nation-wide policy to pay for cleaning up the growing crisis of toxic computer and TV wastes. The participants, who have been meeting for over three years as the National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI), failed to reach a consensus financing agreement for a final proposal to Congress. "Industry still has not been able to come up with a financing policy that works," said Ted Smith of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, an environmental group prominent in the debate over solutions to electronics waste. "For three years, IBM and several TV manufacturers have lobbied for a skimpy recycling fee, which would pass on most costs to local governments. Now, late in the game, electronics companies have finally come up with a new vague outline that would allow some companies to take responsibility for their own products rather than charge consumers an extra fee." Local solid waste officials will be swamped by […]