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Alcoa Establishes Innovation Center in Russia
NEW YORK- February 21, 2007 -Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has established an Innovation Center of Excellence with leading universities in Russia to work on research and development projects focused on innovative mining, refining and smelting technologies.
Cleantech Fund Endorses New Climate Change Roundtable
New York, NY - February 20th, 2007 "“ Verde Venture Partners (VVP), a New York-based private equity fund established to invest in the cleantech sector, announces its endorsement of Columbia University’s Global Roundtable on Climate Change (GROCC).
Sunset Magazine Features Solar in a Box in 2007 Idea Houses
PORTOLA VALLEY, CA - February 9, 2007 - Ready Solar announces the selection of its Solar in a Box solar energy system, featuring Sunpower solar panels, for powering two of Sunset Magazine's 2007 Idea Houses.
HP's Redesigned Ink, Toner Packaging to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 37 Million Pounds in 2007
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2007--HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that its redesigned print cartridge packaging for North America will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 37 million pounds in 2007 - the equivalent of taking 3,600 cars off the road for one year.(1)
HydroGen Corporation Achieves Mechanical Completion, Initiates Pre-Commissioning of Full-Scale 400kW Demonstration and Acceptance Test Facility
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2007--HydroGen Corporation (OTCBB: HYDG), a manufacturer of multi-megawatt air-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) systems, today announced the mechanical completion of its 400 kilowatt (kW) PAFC Module Demonstration and Acceptance Test Facility, and initiation of pre-commissioning activities. This test facility will be utilized for demonstration and acceptance testing of 400 kW fuel cell modules manufactured in HydroGen's Versailles, PA manufacturing plant.
GMU Teacher's Ingenuity Nets $1 Million Prize
A George Mason University chemistry professor has won a $1 million engineering prize for developing a simple and inexpensive means of filtering arsenic from well water, an advance that is already preventing serious health problems in hundreds of thousands of people in his native Bangladesh and could help millions of others around the world.
ISSUE BRIEF: Carbon Regulation and the Finance Sector
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is the least of Citigroup’s problems.