As more governments look to civilian nuclear power as a source of clean electricity, tighter controls and other new schemes are needed to help stop would-be cheats or terrorists from exploiting or stealing some of the proliferation-prone technologies and materials for bomb-building.
By the end of 2012, Clean Team had over 100 households as customers and 2, 000 new Clean Team toilets in production.
FORBES: Building a Scalable Business in Ghana: Because Every Family Deserves a Toilet
As new regulations clean up shipping fuels in order to improve air quality in coastal regions, that brightening effect will be reduced, adding to the world's warming in a sort of inadvertent reverse geoengineering.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
FORBES: Detroit's Innovative Survival Plan Is A Model For The World - But Will It Work?
In theory, it would be marvellous if errant Italian politicians or public figures were able to make a clean breast of past sins and promise to turn over a collective new leaf as part of a general clean-up.
President Barack Obama has strongly endorsed natural gas as a clean energy source, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said more natural gas is critical for the city to improve air quality and public health.
Worse, a bankruptcy suit, seen as an important test of new clean-up procedures, was tossed out of court this week.
"I wish (the new rule) could be as clean as possible, " Pistole said.
When it comes to policy, Barnosky suggests that countries look at new and clean energy technologies as the world's petroleum supply draws down.
Khosla has invested in tech companies like Square, as well as clean tech companies and food startups like a new kind of vegetarian meat company.
FORBES: Vinod Khosla: Y Combinator Startups Need Help, Not Hype
For a brief moment, it looked as if the new Congress might see a serious clean-up.
ECONOMIST: A failed campaign to clean up a tarnished legislature
Opportunistic politicians and radical environmental activists have set their sights on our clean, abundant, affordable supply of natural gas as their new bogeyman du jour.
The other says that whether we like it or not, the transition to renewables will take decades, and in the meantime, we need to use technology and new partnerships to make fracking as safe and clean as possible.
As such, advocates are rightly focused on creating new clean energy policies through Congressional action (see the debate on a carbon tax).
FORBES: Reshaping the Department of Energy in Obama's Second Term: Institutional Reform Goals
Market volume was light Wednesday as New York City and surrounding areas continue to work to clean up the mess left by the storm.
FORBES: Stocks Shoot Higher As Data Reinforce Recovery Strength
That's because his mother's South Bronx building is one of thousands of private dwellings patrolled by the New York Police Department under a program known as Operation Clean Halls.
NSX, which has transferred most BSX-listed companies to the National Stock Exchange of Australia, intends to use the BSX's license for a new Sydney-based exchange known as SIM VSE that targets clean-technology, biotech and renewable-energy companies.
Politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have embraced clean coal as fundamental to their energy policy, but even clean coal plants will take five to ten years to have much of an impact on the environment by reducing the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
As we ring in the New Year, people are often inspired to clean up their finances.
As the majority of black and Hispanic job applicants have clean legal records, the new EEOC mandate may harm the very groups it purports to help.
WSJ: James Bovard: Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril
And even staunch adherents of the new constitution see it as just one step on the road to a clean and accountable regime.
But then the Clean Water Act of 1972 stopped cities from using the waterways as open sewers, and now New York enjoys one of the best inshore saltwater angling spots in the country.
Sometimes, however, the attacks came from outside groups, as with TV ads in New York criticizing McCain's voting record on clean air, and telephone banks in Michigan and Virginia that made an issue of the senator's stance on abortion.
As shareholders push the Bank into new areas of global public goods , like spurring clean energy technology, how will the organization contribute?
This vehicle brings together MQB elements that could underpin a future generation of SUVs, such as the front and rear suspensions, the 190-horsepower TDI Clean Diesel engine from the new EA288 family, and a six-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission.
ENGADGET: VW unveils CrossBlue plug-in SUV with iPad mini headrests and 85MPGe efficiency (eyes-on)
As a child, he once laid newspaper down the street to keep his new shoes clean.
The President could get even more aggressive by proposing new clean energy deployment policies that explicitly tie research to market outcomes, such as through a Race to the Top energy program, or the creation of regional energy innovation consortia.
FORBES: Obama Emerges As A Born-Again Climate Hawk. Now What Can He Do?
Just think of what America will be as we transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future.
Citing international data, the Clean Air Network, another local green group, argues that local air is often three times as foul as in New York and London.
ECONOMIST: An encouraging appointment addresses an enduring problem
Indeed, the need to appear squeaky clean has prompted Sandy Weill, Citigroup's chairman, to appoint a long-standing ally as the new head of the company's global corporate and investment bank.
应用推荐