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  • EPA WaterSense for Homes Finalized

    Homes certified under the program will use 20% less water.

  • Making (H2O)Sense

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first WaterSense specification for a commercial building product: urinals.

  • Landfill Gas Provides Usable Energy

    Using a series of wells or blower, flare, or vacuum systems, landfill gas can be extracted and converted into usable energy

  • EPA Names top 20 green-powered schools

    The agency recognizes primary and secondary schools using alternative energy.

  • The Environmental Protection Agency’s Denver Office is a Public Exercise in Best Practices

    Zimmer Gunsul Frasca's design of the Region 8 headquarters is an Ecommercial category winner in the 2009 Evergreen Awards

  • EPA finalizes first greenhouse gas reporting system for U.S.

    Monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions data will be required from large emitters starting Jan. 1, 2010.

  • Kohl's Department Stores Named EPA Green Power Partner of the Year

    Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) will be named Green Power Partner of the Year during the annual Green Power Leadership Awards held Monday, Sept. 14 in Atlanta, Ga.

  • U.S. EPA Joins Government, Industry and Academic Consortium to Develop Next Generation EcoCARs

    EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge today announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has joined the EcoCAR consortium of government, industry and academic leaders who are helping to develop the next generation of automotive engineers who will design and build the environmental...

  • Irish Grasslands May Help Reduce CO2

    IRISH GRASSLANDS are potentially an important "carbon sink", absorbing as much as 11-18 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per hectare per year, according to a report published yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

  • Partnership for Sustainable Communities Unveiled by EPA

    The Partnership for Sustainable Communities recently was unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation.