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Aqueous Hybrid Ion battery company Aquion files for Chap. 11, targets sale of assets

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In 2007, with support from Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Jay Whitacre began researching low-cost electrochemical approaches to bulk energy storage. In 2008 he produced the first functioning Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) battery. Supported by VC funding, Aquion spun out of CMU in 2009. Pleasant, PA in 2012. Shanbhag, S., Mohamed, A.,

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

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