Category: Green Building LEED News
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Canadian Solar to Power Five Strata Solar Projects in North Carolina
Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world’s largest solar power companies, today announced it was selected by Strata Solar to power five utility scale projects totaling 30 MW. The five North Carolina projects are located in Orange, Lincoln, Union, Rockingham […] — Solar Builder magazine
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Biggest Concerns Still Unanswered in Gov. Kasich’s Collusion With Fracking Industry
By Brian Kunkemoeller Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich reversed his position on fracking public lands in response to public outcry about the events surrounding recently released information about the state’s collusion with the oil and gas industry to conduct a shady pro-fracking PR campaign. Last week, Gov. Kasich announced that he is opposed to drilling in state…
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Study Finds Canned Drinks Expose Fetuses to Potentially Cancerous Chemical
In a new study, researchers believe what men are fed during the fetal stage may leave them more susceptible to prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the U.S., reports TreeHugger. [caption id="attachment_322871" align="alignnone" width="500"] Findings conclude BPA, an estrogenic compound, permanently reprograms a fetus’ stem cells potentially leading…
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Post-Sochi: Environmentalists Call on Olympic Committee to Consider Future Game’s Climate Impacts
A letter was sent to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday from Global Greengrants Fund asking it to change course on how it chooses future Olympic sites and to call on Russian authorities to release imprisoned environmentalists. The request comes as a final report cataloguing the extensive environmental destruction has been released, and as jailed Russian environmental activist,…
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Obama’s Climate Change Agenda Faces Supreme Court Hearing
[caption id="attachment_322883" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] By Vickie Patton Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case challenging EPA’s interpretation that the Clean Air Act permit program requiring new and rebuilt industrial sources to deploy leading pollution control technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Act applies to greenhouse…