UPS announced announced Monday that it was deploying 200 new hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) to the streets of Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Long Island, Minneapolis and Louisville. UPS already has 50 HEVs on the road in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix.
The new trucks will feature the same body and will appear identical to the iconic brown truck on the roads today, except for additional labeling identifying the truck as hybrids.
According to UPS senior vice president, Bob Stoffel, commenting on the advantages of hybrid technology said, …

For the month of April, Walmart is highlighting Terracycle’s products made from waste packaging and other trash. Walmart will display 60 Terracycle products next to the original products they were made from as part of Walmart’s “Earth Month” campaign, according to Greenbiz .

The Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday that it will not require power plants, refineries or other large carbon dioxide emitters to obtain permits before January 2011.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator has delayed implementation of new regulations because she faced “strong pressure from state regulators, lawmakers and various industry groups.”

California’s independent budget watchdog, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, predicts job losses in California due to, among other things, the state’s climate change legislation, according to a report today in Reuters.
In 2006, California passed a climate change law that mandates greenhouse gas emissions cutbacks to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

The gold, silver and bronze medallions slung around winning athletes’ necks as they step on to the winners’ podium at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games could well be made from the guts of an old Belgian computer.

The manufacturer of medals for this Olympics is for the first time incorporating token amounts of recycled material into the medals. Medals historically have been made of freshly mines ores.

The innovation – though largely symbolic – was directed by an Olympic organising committee which had vowed to put on the greenest games ever, raising the bar for London in 2012.

Eco-Friendly and Patient Friendly Are Newest Trends in Healthcare.  In this video we are remined that while hospitals make up only four percent of the country’s total building population, they  consume eight percent of the energy.  Here is a solution, a hospital so green it is the platinum standard.

MIT’s Technology Review predicts that the U.S. will surpass Germany as the world’s largest market for solar power.
Growth in the U.S. will likely be spurred on by the decreasing cost of solar panels and installation, and the continuing and increasing federal and state incentives. The federal stimulus package funding, for example, will be felt in 2010 and so will tax credits for solar investment for utilities.
Some experts, however, think that the case for growth of large solar projects in the next few years may be a bit too rosy.

Some think it’s funny; some think it’s the worst Super Bowl commercial of the bunch. It seems funnier the second time around.

After nearly a year of negotiations with the state’s utility companies, Massachusetts officials announced a set of new energy efficiency standards on Friday in what is anticipated to be the most ambitious plan in the nation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an interpretive release on Wednesday in an attempt to offer guidance to public companies regarding the need to  disclose the impact of environmental legislation and regulation on their businesses.

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