Meanwhile, on Wednesday Applied Materials and China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group announced they have agreed to explore projects for accelerating the development and deployment of solar photovoltaic technology.
ACEEE's scorecard draws heavily on data supplied by the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Still, way back in 1979, it revised its objectives to reduce dependence on oil, and its current objectives include energy security, environmental protection, and economic growth.
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It is a pretty wide-ranging set of discreet policies, subsidies, incentives, disincentives and restrictions that is administered by various federal departments and agencies, including the Department of the Interior, the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, OSHA, and even the Internal Revenue Service.
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According to Science Magazine, specific science and technology-based programs in jeopardy include, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and Environmental Protection Agency, to name a few.
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Energy Star is a joint program of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy.
Programs like Energy Star, a joint undertaking of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, have sought to provide such information in the past.
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They also inked a dozen other agreements, some of which merely reaffirmed earlier commitments on nuclear power, environmental protection and cooperation in energy development.
Energy Points uses data from the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, other U.S. federal agencies and local utilities.
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This is despite the fact that there are plenty of tough issues to which the best possible leadership needs to be applied, such as unemployment, economic development, housing, immigration, education, energy, environmental protection, deficit reduction, and so forth.
We can have environmental protection meet our energy needs, and it can be beneficial to small businesses.
The rest include budget cuts in the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, among others.
It has sold hundreds of the new detector units to the military, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and emergency response teams.
Each scientist or engineer is employed or funded by the Federal government and includes members of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.
But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.
They include such domestic energy enthusiasts as former Al Gore aide and secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty, and Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.
The Obama administration has unleashed a massive new regulatory push, with costly new health care regulations, a major expansion by the Environmental Protection Agency that will raise the costs of energy, and a slew of yet unwritten financial services regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform bill.
In contrast, maximizing emerging energy-efficient technologies and water-wise renewable energy sources ( biofuels, wind, and solar in particular) enhance disaster resilience and environmental protection.
Further complicating the picture for all of these rival energy sources is uncertainty about what kind of new carbon regulations might come from Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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So heavy are the current energy demands of our expanding data usage that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pegged servers and data centers as responsible for nearly two percent of total national electricity consumption.
Carol Browner, President Bill Clinton's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm also are possible contenders for the energy secretary post.
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At the event, officials from the Departments of Transportation, Labor, Energy, Education, and Agriculture, as well as from the Office of Personnel Management, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and Corporation for National and Community Service, met with leaders of STEM mentoring organizations and members of the public.
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