Category: Green Building LEED News
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Misuse of Antibiotics Fuels Fatal ‘Superbug’ Crisis
The drugs people have relied on for more than 70 years to fight bacterial infections, from everyday cuts to potentially deadly pneumonia, are becoming powerless due mainly to misuse. [caption id="attachment_324584" align="alignnone" width="500"] The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than half the antibiotics used in the U.S. are prescribed unnecessarily…
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Surprise! House Passes Building Energy Efficiency Bill
The companion bill to the widely lauded Shaheen-Portman bill in the Senate, they will hopefully be reconciled and passed.
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Iowa Edges Toward 30% Wind
Last year, Iowa got 27% of electricity from wind and that’s without the gigawatt project under construction.
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It’s Official: U.S. Solar Industry Had Record-Shattering Year in 2013
What would Alexandre Edmond Becquerel be thinking now? In 1839, at the age of just 19, Becquerel built the world’s first photovoltaic panel, later inspiring the imaginations of millions of people worldwide, including legendary scientist Albert Einstein. Still, it took another 115 years before Bell Labs invented the first modern silicon solar cell. By comparison,…
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Groups Call for Additional Records Related to Kasich Administration’s Plan to Promote Fracking
Troubled by recent revelations about an internal memo drafted in 2012 in which the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) outlined a plan to promote fracking in state parks, Food & Water Watch along with other groups sent a request today to Gov. John Kasich and the ODNR to release of additional records related to promoting…