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Infographic: Next Generation Fuel Arrives

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Infographic: Next Generation Fuel Arrives

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Today is a big day for clean energy in America. After years of innovation and investment, the first of four new cellulosic ethanol facilities in the U.S. comes online this week — amazing progress in the few short years since the adoption of the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Project Liberty is a $275 million advanced biofuels plant designed to process 770 tons of corn cobs, leaves, husks and stalks every day. Located in Emmetsburg, Iowa, the plant will draw its feedstock from a 30 to 40 mile radius to produce 25 million gallons of fuel per year, using approximately 25% of the available crop residue.

Cellulosic ethanol is a low-emission, sustainable biofuel produced from agricultural waste, like wheat straw, switchgrass and corn husks. Blending that ethanol into our fuel will help to reduce our dependence on foreign oil — and make our air cleaner.

Learn about Project Liberty and the other new cellulosic ethanol plants in our infographic above. You can also watch the livestream of the Project Liberty grand opening.

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Plant Fusion Phood Shake, Vanilla, 31.8 Ounces

by 07ld5ksl Posted on August 9, 2014

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Nestlé doesn’t want you to know how much water it’s bottling from the California desert

by CarolEllington Posted on July 15, 2014

Nestlé doesn’t want you to know how much water it’s bottling from the California desert

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Nestlé may bring smiles to the faces of children across America through cookies and chocolate milk. But when it comes to water, the company starts to look a little less wholesome. Amid California’s historically grim drought, Nestlé is sucking up an undisclosed amount of precious groundwater from a desert area near Palm Springs and carting it off in plastic bottles for its Arrowhead and Pure Life brands.

The Desert Sun reports that because Nestlé’s water plant in Millard Canyon, Calif., is located on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians’ reservation, the company is exempt from reporting things like how much groundwater it’s pumping, or the water levels in its wells.

From The Desert Sun:

The plant … has been drawing water from wells alongside a spring in Millard Canyon for more than a decade. But as California’s drought deepens, some people in the area question how much water the plant is bottling and whether it’s right to sell water for profit in a desert region where springs are rare and underground aquifers have been declining.

“The reason this particular plant is of special concern is precisely because water is so scarce in the basin,” Peter Gleick, who wrote the book on bottled water, told The Desert Sun. “If you had the same bottling plant in a water-rich area, then the amount of water bottled and diverted would be a small fraction of the total water available. But this is a desert ecosystem. Surface water in the desert is exceedingly rare and has a much higher environmental value than the same amount of water somewhere else.”

Nestlé refused to let The Desert Sun in on any of its data, but defended itself via email: “We proudly conduct our business in an environmentally responsible manner that focuses on water and energy conservation,” the company said. “Our sustainable operations are specifically designed and managed to prevent adverse impacts to local area groundwater resources, particularly in light of California’s drought conditions over the past three years.”

Well, we all know that bottled water is widely known to be environmentally responsible and sustainable. Oh, wait, did I just say that? Nestlé, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!


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Little oversight as Nestle taps Morongo reservation water, The Desert Sun
Nestlé is bottling water straight from the heart of California’s drought, Salon

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Just how friendly are your “bee-friendly” plants?

by ConsuelStarling Posted on June 26, 2014

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We don’t want to kill your bee-loving buzz, but if you buy “bee-friendly” plants and seedlings from Home Depot or similar stores, then you could be unwittingly killing the bees that you’re trying to protect.

Friends of the Earth tested 71 garden plants with “bee-friendly” labels purchased from major retailers in the U.S. and Canada and discovered that 36 of them had been treated with bee- and butterfly-killing neonic pesticides.

“Since 51 percent of the plants that were tested contained neonicotinoid residues, the chance of purchasing a plant contaminated with neonicotinoids is high,” states a new report detailing the findings. “Therefore, many home gardens have likely become a source of exposure for bees. For the samples with positive detections, adverse effects on bees and other pollinators consuming nectar and pollen from these plants are possible, ranging from sublethal effects on navigation, fertility, and immune function to pollinator death.”

Déjà vu? You bet. The nonprofit published similar findings last year.

The difference this year is that the some of the large retailers have responded to the findings by pledging to try to end the appalling practice of treating “bee-friendly” plants with bee-killing pesticides. Reuters reports:

Atlanta-based Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, is requiring its suppliers to start [labeling plants treated with neonic pesticides] by the fourth quarter of this year, said Ron Jarvis, the company’s vice president of merchandising/sustainability. Home Depot is also running tests in several states to see if suppliers can eliminate neonics in their plant production without hurting plant health, he said. …

Also on Wednesday, BJ’s Wholesale Club, a warehouse retailer with more than 200 locations along the East Coast, said it was asking all of its vendors to provide plants free of neonics by the end of 2014 or to label such products as requiring “caution around pollinators” like bees.

At least 10 other smaller retailers, with locations in Minnesota, Colorado, Maryland and California, have announced plans to limit or eliminate neonics from plant products.

Here’s a list of retailers that have pledged to sell neonic-free plants.


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Gardeners Beware (2014): Bee-toxic pesticides found in “bee-friendly plants sold at garden centers across the U.S. and Canada, Friends of the Earth
U.S. retailers look to limit pesticides to help honeybees, Reuters

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This company’s gas plants just keep on exploding

by HFOSpencer Posted on April 25, 2014

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Perhaps executives at the Williams energy company have fiery personalities. Or maybe they just don’t care about safety, or about their workers or neighbors.

A huge explosion at one of the company’s gas processing plants in southern Wyoming on Wednesday afternoon triggered the evacuation of all residents of the small nearby town of Opal. The plant, which is connected to six pipelines that help feed fracked natural gas to customers throughout the American West, burned throughout Wednesday night and into Thursday, when its neighbors were allowed to return to their homes.

As extraordinary as the (fortunately injury-free) accident sounds, something similar happened just four weeks ago at a Williams gas processing plant near the Washington-Oregon border. That explosion injured five workers and led to the evacuation of 400 residents.

Less than a year ago, workers were injured when one of the company’s natural gas facilities blew up in Branchburg, N.J. The company’s pipelines have also blown up.

Also last year, a leak of 241 barrels of fluid from a Williams natural gas processing plant in Colorado contaminated a creek with carcinogenic benzene. At least nothing blew up that time.

“Williams is committed to maintaining the highest standards of safety,” the company claims on its website. We’d hate to see what lower standards looked like.


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Opal residents return home after gas plant blast; gas flows diverted, Casper Star-Tribune
Workers injured as blast rocks Washington gas plant, The Associated Press

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Seashore solar comes to Japan

by zB7bB4yB6a Posted on January 25, 2014

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Japan has been thinking creatively about electricity since the Fukushima meltdown nearly three years ago.

Dozens of nuclear power plants remain in the “off” mode while leaders and citizens tussle over whether nuclear power can ever be safe. That has left the gas-and-oil-poor country heavily dependent on expensive fossil fuel imports. So it has been turning to cleaner alternatives, using subsidies to help get tens of thousands of renewable energy projects off the ground. We told you recently that offshore wind turbines are being built near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, part of an effort to turn the contaminated region into a hub for clean energy.

And now, for another Japanese endeavor into safe, low-carbon energy, look again to the sea. Smithsonian Magazine reports:

[In November,] Japan flipped the switch on its largest solar power plant to date, built offshore on reclaimed land jutting into the cerulean waters of Kagoshima Bay. The Kyocera Corporation’s Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant is as potent as it is picturesque, generating enough electricity to power roughly 22,000 homes.

Other densely populated countries, notably in Asia, are also beginning to look seaward. In Singapore, the Norwegian energy consultancy firm DNV recently debuted a solar island concept called SUNdy, which links 4,200 solar panels into a stadium-size hexagonal array that floats on the ocean’s surface.

Projects like these could help crowded coastal countries and metropolises install expansive solar arrays. Not much good for boating or wildlife, though.


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Is Japan’s Offshore Solar Power Plant the Future of Renewable Energy?, Smithsonian Magazine

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Shell Opts Not to Build Plant on Gulf Coast, Citing Costs

by Myrna Posted on December 5, 2013

After two years of research, the company said a plant that would convert natural gas to liquids would have cost more than $20 billion. Originally posted here:  Shell Opts Not to Build Plant on Gulf Coast, Citing Costs ; ;Related ArticlesCiting Cost Concerns, Shell Will Not Build Gulf Coast PlantOPEC, Foreseeing No Glut, Keeps Oil Production Level SteadySolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy Storage ;

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