Category: Green Building LEED News
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First Wind Company Criminally Convicted for Bird Deaths
Duke Energy pleaded guilty to killing endangered birds, including eagles, at two Wyoming wind farms.
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Sequester Crimps Army’s Transition to Clean Energy
The Army isn’t able to do efficiency upgrades and is canceling renewable energy projects because of the sequester.
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Two Arrested Protesting Fracking Wastewater Injection Well
Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested today at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally. [caption id=”attachment_313230″…
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World’s First Electric Helicopter Takes Flight
The world’s first two-seat electric helicopter took its initial test flight this week in Germany. The emissions-free VC200 Volocopter hovered over its creators, the E-volo team, in a hangar in the City of Karlsruhe. The “multicopter” has 18 spinning blades and quietly soared to about 72 feet. Following the test flight, the company described the vehicle as having…
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Lawsuit Forces FDA to Finally Enforce Removal of Endocrine Disruptor Triclosan From Soaps
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under a court agreement signed Thursday, will end decades of delay and decide how to protect consumers from triclosan, a suspected endocrine disruptor linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. The FDA first proposed in 1978 to remove triclosan from certain consumer products. But because it…