A scientist at the Florida Institute of Technology has come up with a new compound that disinfects and cleans polluted water without producing toxic byproducts. It’s based on ferrate, which is a revved-up form of iron. Through the school’s technology transfer office, chemistry professor Virender K. Sharma has teamed up … [continued]
If you take all the abandoned and classified former industrial sites and dumps across the U.S. and add them together, you get 14 million acres of cheap, available land that could be used as sites for new solar installations and wind farms. Right now the U.S. EPA is pushing forward … [continued]
Talk about green jobs! The California company Microvi Biotech has developed a low cost, low impact, energy efficient system that puts billions of microorganisms to work, cleaning up notorious soil and groundwater pollutants like perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive that is also used to make explosives, matches and flares among … [continued]
The U.S. EPA has launched a program to push to recover brownfields for renewable energy generation. The initiative, called RE-Powering America’s Land (pdf alert), is focusing on solar energy, wind and biomass projects that provide local economic benefits in the form of new jobs. In doing so, RE-Powering pulls together … [continued]
The engineering firm CDM has come up with a more sustainable way to neutralize highly polluted soil. Instead of digging it up and trucking it to landfills, CDM is using a bioremediation process that relies on the cleaning power of bacteria that grow naturally in groundwater on the site, helped … [continued]
Off they go into the wild green yonder: the 97th Air Mobility Wing at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma has just earned the top “Green” rating from the Air Force’s Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health compliance program. [social_buttons] The 97th spent months prepping for its evaluation and earned a … [continued]
