Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:May 21, 2003

*News and Events Eighteen Veterans Hospitals Earn the Energy Star Label UPS to Test Fuel-Cell-Powered Delivery Vehicles in Michigan Ethanol Industry Growing as States Consider New MTBE Bans Cal State Hayward to Install One Megawatt of Solar Power U.S. Wind Industry to Grow 25 Percent in 2003 Pennsylvania Launches a $5-Million Clean Energy Initiative*Site NewsInterfaith Coalition on Energy*Energy Connections New York and Connecticut May Face Power Problems this Summer ———————————————————————-NEWS AND EVENTS———————————————————————-Eighteen Veterans Hospitals Earn the Energy Star LabelDOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Energy Star to 18 Veterans Affairs medical centers on May 14th. The winning medical centers were identified and qualified through a joint effort of EPA, DOE’s Federal Energy Management Program, DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The energy-efficient medical centers are located in 16 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington State. See the DOE press release at: [sorry this link is no longer available]The joint EPA/DOE Energy Star program for rating and labeling building energy performance, now in its fourth year, has recognized more than 1,000 U.S. buildings as models of energy […]

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