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Wal-Mart Holds Grand Reopening of Store Featuring LED Parking Lot Site Lighting

The Wal-Mart Superstore, the first retail store to feature light-emitting diode (LED) parking lot site lighting, based on specifications developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Retailer Energy Alliance, will reopen on July 15, 2009, in Leavenworth, Kansas. The Superstore will serve as a test site to determine the viability of expanding LED parking [...]

Obama Administration Delivers More than $448 Million for Weatherization Programs in Thirteen States

These funds will weatherize more than 125,000 homes, cutting energy costs for low-income families, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and creating green jobs…

Interior Department To Develop Renewable Energy, Respond to Climate Change

Interior accelerating development of renewable energy on vast public lands and offshore areas “to help power President Obama’s vision for a new energy economy…

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Learn More About Conserving Energy

Energy Conservation Basics: a look at fossil fuels and their impact on global warming. An examination of renewable energy technologies, grid parity, the need for a smart grid, and the carbon trading market.

The Main Renewable Energy technologies: climate change concerns coupled with high oil prices, peak oil and increasing government support are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization.

What to Consider When Purchasing an Appliance: The major appliances in your home — refrigerators, clothes washers, dishwashers — account for a big chunk of your monthly utility bill. In fact, 50% of home energy cost come from your appliances.

Facts on Energy Recent facts and figures on energy use and the consequences resulting in global warming.

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EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps

EIA has released 12 new State Rankings pages that display charts and maps ordered by data value. The rankings cover energy production, consumption, and price, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from electric power plants, as follows:
Total Energy Production
Crude Oil Production
Natural Gas Marketed Production
Coal Production
Total Net Electricity Generation
Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Electric Power Producers
Total Energy [...]

Experts Look For Ways to Save Lake Chad

The Food and Agriculture Organization held a special event Friday to raise awareness and mobilize funds to save Lake Chad, which was once one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes…

U.S. EPA to spend more than $50 Million to address DDT, PCBs off Southern California Coast

Agency selects cleanup remedy for Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected a cleanup strategy for the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund Site, where a large area on the ocean floor off the Palos Verdes peninsula is contaminated with DDT and PCBs.
The site, off the coast of Los Angeles , stretches from [...]

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Utility Solar Assessment Study (pdf)

American utilities can reach 10% solar by 2025 (June 2008)

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