Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2023
The proposed rules follow the Agency’s commitment in the draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution to ensure that feedstocks made from plastic waste do not contain impurities and are part of EPA’s overall efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2013
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Southern Company, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are together contributing more than $20 million in research funding to support the SouthEast Atmosphere Study (SAS).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 72 million metric tons of carbon pollution, while saving more than 170 million barrels of oil and $24.9 Ingram Barge Company. Mercury Services, Inc. billion in fuel costs—equivalent to eliminating annual energy use in over six million homes. Halvor Lines, Inc.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Used light bulbs are collected, sorted and processed by specialized companies who recycle their different components (glass, metals, plastics, mercury). —Du Hua, Director of Solvay’s Rare Earths Systems business unit.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Private companies are planning to build more than 30 other plants, capable of producing as much as 200 million cubic meters of natural gas each year—far exceeding China’s current natural gas demand. They] will lock in high greenhouse gas emissions, water use and mercury pollution for decades. —Robert B.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Consumer electronics can cause deadly pollution by degrading into hazardous materials (including lead, mercury, and arsenic) when left in landfills. It’s important that Dell, and other companies in consumer electronics, know we want sustainable materials. And climate change isn’t the only problem worth worrying about.
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