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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
    • Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between sun and Earth for our atmosphere
      Scientists have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun, likely stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere.
    • Waste could generate up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain
      Researchers have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain. These residues are alternative sources of renewable energy, which are more environmentally friendly and, in the case of solid urban waste, more cost effective.
    • More, better biodiesel
      Higher yields of better-performing biodiesel could be produced using a new method.
    • New process yields high-energy-density, plant-based transportation fuel
      A team of engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel.
    • Intelligent energy management for the home
      In order to save energy, consumers need to be able to obtain up-to-date information at any time about the energy consumption of their appliances, and be able to control them while away from home. Scientists have developed two new applications that help consumers manage their power use.
    • Neighborhood grids promise energy gains
      Researchers are creating technology that will treat neighborhoods like a miniature power grid, sharing energy generated at each house according to need. Allied to a host of other developments, the concept promises huge energy savings.
    • Call made for better metrics for energy savings
      If the world is to make better decisions when it comes to developing new energy sources, it needs to have better methods of measuring progress toward its energy goals.
    • Strategic cooperation sets the scene for geological disposal of nuclear waste in Europe
      A group of eight European radioactive waste management organizations has set up the "Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform" with support from the European Commission. Their vision is that "by 2025, the first geological disposal facilities for spent fuel, high-level waste and other long-lived radioactive waste will be operating safely in Europe." The world's first geological disposal facilities will start operation in Finland, Sweden and France in the period 2020-2025.
    • Photosynthesis: A new source of electrical energy? Biofuel cell works in cactus
      Scientists in France have transformed the chemical energy generated by photosynthesis into electrical energy by developing a novel biofuel cell. The advance offers a new strategy to convert solar energy into electrical energy in an environmentally-friendly and renewable manner. In addition, the biofuel cell could have important medical applications.
    • Habit-learning device will lower energy bills under new clean energy cashback scheme
      Smart control units that learn householders' energy habits and provide immediate feedback on consumption could give home energy savings of up to 20 percent without compromising comfort.