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Winter is around the corner. Save money with Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector E-mail
Thermal Leak Detector
Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector
The Black & Decker Thermal Leak Detector helps you increase the efficiency of your home's insulation by finding weak areas that can lead to higher heating and cooling bills. YouÆll instantly identify problem areas around drafty windows and doors, and uncover hidden leaks and insulation "soft spots" around your home. Check windows, ducts, and walls with the thermal reference light that indicates hot and cold spots. You can even use the detector to diagnose engine misfires or check your refrigerator and freezer settings.

  • Uses infrared sensors to measure surface temperatures
  • Helps homeowners track down power-draining drafts
  • Sold with a 5 step guide to fixing basic energy leaks comes with the thermal leak detector, offering guidance on everything from caulking to weatherproofing windows and doors
  • Plugging leaks can save up to 20-Percent on heating and cooling costs!

Cut Energy Bills and Improve Your Home's Efficiency

Sealing the leaks and improving insulation in your home can help you save as much as 20 percent on your heating and cooling bills. An efficient, greener home will stay cooler in summer and warmer in winter, increasing its resale value.
Cut Energy Bills and Improve Your Home's Efficiency
Check for drafts or leaks around your fireplace, recessed lighting, electrical outlets, along floor molding, or any place that may have improper seals, caulking, or seams that aren't immediately visible. An included booklet gives you tips and instructions on how to seal leaks and improve insulation.
 
Environmental Standards for Operations of Oil and Gas Companies Acting in Russia E-mail
Environmental Standards for Operations of Oil and Gas Companies Acting in Russia , on its Continental Shelf, and within it Exclusive Economic Zone developed by Russian Non-governmental Nature Conservation Organizations. – Moscow , 2005. 8 pages.

Environmental Standards for Operations of Oil and Gas Companies Acting in Russia

Policy of Oil and Gas Company «RussNeft» in the sphere of Industrial Safety, Environmental and Labor Protection

Gazprom Environmental Policy
 
Effluent guidelines for wastewater discharges to surface waters and municipal sewage treatment plants. E-mail

Browse Industries
  • Existing and proposed regulations
  • Fact sheets and supporting documentation
  • Preliminary studies
  • Guidance for specific industrial categories
Planning
  • Information on EPA's current and previous reviews and plans for controlling industrial discharges
Implementation & Compliance
  • Permitting, POTWs
  • Compliance and enforcement
  • For industry-specific documents, see Industries
Treatment Technologies
  • Data sources on pollution prevention and treatment technologies.
Environmental Effects
  • Industry-specific environmental impacts and summaries of benefits, models, and water quality databases.
Data Resources & Tools
  • Industry-specific analyses of discharges using the Toxic Release Inventory and Permit Compliance System databases, economic databases.
Frequent Questions
  • Questions concerning effluent guidelines.
Laws & Regulatory Development
  • Clean Water Act provisions pertaining to effluent guidelines
  • Other requirements affecting effluent guidelines development
Priority Pollutants
  • List of pollutants originally identified by the Agency pursuant to the Clean Water Act.
History
  • Effluent Guidelines Task Force
  • Legal Challenges/Consent Decrees
Analytical Methods
  • EPA published laboratory analytical methods that are used by industries and municipalities to analyze the chemical and biological components of wastewater, drinking water, sediment, and other environmental samples that are required by regulations under the authority of the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act


More Information: Effluent guidelines at EPA.GOV
 
Wastewater Management Publications (EPA OWM Catalog) E-mail
OWM Catalog of Publications

OWM Catalog of Publications [LISTED BY SECTION]


EPA OWM Catalog of Publications
 
Solubilization in Environmental Research E-mail

U.S. National Center For Environmental Research

Digestive Solubilization of Sediment-Sorbed Contaminants: A Comparison of In Vitro and In Vivo Processes
Description:
The goal of the proposed work is to confirm and expand upon early work, and contrast in vitro digestive fluid solubilization with in vivo digestive processes, bioavailability and bioaccumulation. The in vitro technique allows the researchers to answer mechanistic questions by manipulating sediment or digestive fluid characteristics in ways that would not be possible in vivo, but first there is a need to establish that in vitro solubilization provides meaningful information in the context of the whole animal's accumulation of sediment-sorbed contaminants. Included within this objective are contrasts between the novel digestive fluid solubilization approach and more traditional means of measuring bioavailability such as absorption (assimilation) efficiency, uptake clearance rates and steady state body burdens. The researchers then intend to expand the research to examine its generality to multiple species and varied substrate types.
More on Digestive Solubilization of Sediment-Sorbed Contaminants: A Comparison of In Vitro and In Vivo Processes

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Final report on A Comparison of In Vitro and In Vivo Processes
 
Renewable Energy Tools E-mail

State Clean Energy Policy Maps and Data Table

  • http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/state-and-local/state-best-practices.html

    Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)

  • http://www.dsireusa.org

    U.S. EPA Report, “Clean Energy-Environment Guide to Action: Policies, Best Practices, and Action Steps for States”

  • http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/state-and-local/state-best-practices.html

    NREL Renewable Energy Resource Maps

  • http://www.nrel.gov/renewable_resources/

    State Climate and Energy Technical Forum

  • http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-programs/state-and-local/state-forum.html

    Supplemental Environmental Projects Toolkit

  • http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/documents/sep_toolkit.pdf

    HOMER

  • http://www.nrel.gov/homer/

    The Building Life Cycle Cost (BLCC) Programs

  • http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/information/download_blcc.html

    The Clean Air and Climate Protection Software (CACPS)

  • http://www.4cleanair.org/InnovationDetails.asp?innoid=1

    NREL PVWatts

  • http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codes_algs/PVWATTS/

    NREL JEDI Tool

  • http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/filter_detail.asp?itemid=707

    RMI Community Energy Opportunity Finder

  • http://www.energyfinder.org/

    International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP)

  • * http://www.evo-world.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=80
    More information can be found at epa.gov
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    Ohio Clean Power Estimator E-mail
    The Clean Power Estimator, developed by Clean Power Research, is an economic evaluation tool that provides an estimate of the benefits and costs associated with a renewable energy system.
    The Clean Power Estimator helps evaluate the costs of a renewable energy system taking into account the financial incentives currently being offered in Ohio through the Ohio Energy Loan Fund.
     



    ScienceDaily: Renewable Energy News
    Renewable Energy Sources. Read the latest research on renewable sources of energy such as solar energy, wind power, nuclear energy, hydrogen fuel, ethanol, methane and other alternative energy sources.
    ScienceDaily: Renewable Energy News
    • Metal-mining bacteria are green chemists
      Microbes could soon be used to convert metallic wastes into high-value catalysts for generating clean energy, say scientists.
    • Off-the-shelf dyes improve solar cells
      Scientists report success in boosting the ability of zinc oxide solar cells to absorb visible light simply by applying a blended mixture of various off-the-shelf dyes commonly used in food and medical industries -- in a soak-then-dry procedure not unlike that used to color a tee-shirt in a home washing machine.
    • A decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D
      Space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by "Cluster," a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the northern lights and the solar wind. Cluster is a European Space Agency mission, launched in summer 2000. It consists of a unique constellation of four spacecraft flying in formation around Earth, studying the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetosphere.
    • Can the world be powered mainly by solar and wind energy?
      Continuous research and development of alternative energy could soon lead to a new era in human history in which two renewable sources -- solar and wind -- will become Earth's dominant contributor of energy, a Nobel laureate said at a conference.
    • Americans using less energy, more renewables
      Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources. The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There also was a decline in natural gas use and increases in solar, hydro and geothermal power, according to the most recent energy flow charts.
    • Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free
      Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists have now developed a possible solution -- self-dusting solar panels -- based on technology developed for space missions to Mars.
    • Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy
      Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy that could see nuclear reactors with replaceable parts, portable mini-reactors, and ship-borne reactors supplying countries with clean energy, in new research.
    • Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii
      Researchers in Hawaii say that the Leeward side of Hawaiian Islands may be ideal for future ocean-based renewable energy plants based on a technology referred to as Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion.
    • New catalyst of platinum nanoparticles could lead to conk-out free, stable fuel cells
      In the quest for efficient, cost-effective and commercially viable fuel cells, scientists have discovered a catalyst and catalyst-support combination that could make fuel cells more stable, conk-out free, inexpensive and more resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning.
    • New solar energy conversion process could double solar efficiency of solar cells
      A new process that simultaneously combines the light and heat of solar radiation to generate electricity could offer more than double the efficiency of existing solar cell technology, say the engineers who discovered it and proved that it works. The process, called 'photon enhanced thermionic emission," or PETE, could reduce the costs of solar energy production enough for it to compete with oil as an energy source.