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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
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  • Guidance for specific industrial categories
Planning
  • Information on EPA's current and previous reviews and plans for controlling industrial discharges
Implementation & Compliance
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  • 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
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U.S. National Center For Environmental Research

Digestive Solubilization of Sediment-Sorbed Contaminants: A Comparison of In Vitro and In Vivo Processes
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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.
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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
    • Biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity
      Scientists are turning the term "power plant" on its head. A team of researchers has developed a system that taps into photosynthetic processes to produce efficient and inexpensive energy.
    • New tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems
      Consistent appraisals of real estate outfitted with photovoltaic installations are a challenge for the nation's real estate industry, but a new tool addresses that issue.
    • Classifying solar eruptions
      Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). While these are the most common solar events, the sun can also emit streams of very fast protons -- known as solar energetic particle (SEP) events -- and disturbances in the solar wind known as corotating interaction regions (CIRs). All of these can produce a variety of "storms" on Earth that can -- if strong enough -- interfere with short wave radio communications, GPS signals, and Earth's power grid, among other things.
    • New material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
      Research by chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. They have used metal-organic frameworks to capture and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel.
    • Power generation is blowing in the wind
      By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time. Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different shapes (such as turbulence) to the wind profile, a turbine will produce different amounts of power. This variable power can be predicted by looking at atmospheric stability, according to new research.
    • Solar energy: New sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency
      A new sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency.
    • Greenhouses and solar power: Crop testing with a special photovoltaic panel for greenhouses
      A new photovoltaic module allows electricity to be generated without greenhouse crops being affected by over-shading.
    • New research helps predict bat presence at wind energy facilities
      An interactive tool developed by researchers from the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station will help wind energy facility operators make informed decisions on efficient ways to reduce impacts on migratory bats.
    • Weather deserves medal for clean air during 2008 Olympics
      New research suggests that China's impressive feat of cutting Beijing's pollution up to 50 percent for the 2008 Summer Olympics had some help from Mother Nature. Rain just at the beginning and wind during the Olympics likely contributed about half of the effort needed to clean up the skies, scientists found. The results also suggest emission controls need to be more widely implemented than in 2008 if pollution levels are to be reduced permanently.
    • Go to work on a Christmas card: UK's wrapping paper and festive cards could provide energy to send a bus to the moon more than 20 times
      If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind a new scientific study.