Promotions for chelation are combined with warnings about lead-contaminated toys and mercury in coal-plant emissions, fish and dental fillings.
Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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Power shortages have become a major issue in Pakistan, with the government ordering an investigation into a nation-wide power cut on Sunday blamed on a technical fault in a plant in south-western Balochistan province.
He added that GE will continue to invest in India because the company--which began operations here in 1902 by installing a hydropower plant--is in the country for the long-haul.
Lastly, China points to its impressive improvements in energy efficiency and coal-plant cleanliness in recent years, and its increasingly ambitious commitments to invest in renewable energy sources.
The friction in dealing with faraway Chinese factories, once ignored, is now a big consideration in plant-location decisions.
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In Wisconsin, a company called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energy-efficient lights in a once-shuttered plant.
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Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
He was replying to a request for Titan to consider investing in a loss-making Goodyear plant in Amiens, north France.
Both sides are counting on increased production at the Wrangler factory--and another Jeep plant in Toledo--so that every Chrysler worker who wants to stay with the company can do so, without sacrificing pay.
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The In Amenas plant - a joint venture between state-owned oil firm Sonatrach, UK multinational BP and Norway's Statoil - has been operating since 2006 and has a production capacity of nine billion cubic meters per year.
Evolution has arranged financing for methane-capture equipment in Argentina and for a switch by a 120-megawatt power plant in Hungary from coal to biomass fuel.
Investing--whether in startups or in existing businesses, or in securities, or in plant and equipment or acquisitions--is risky enough.
In addition to plant-based diets and strong communities, near-constant moderate physical activity is the norm in these areas.
The same is true of the boom in shale gas in America, the recession in Europe and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan.
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What with all the environmentalists and not-in-my-backyarders, a new plant would take at least five years from groundbreaking to spigot-opening.
The AP1000 from Westinghouse (now owned by Toshiba) is being built in China and America, and the EPR from Areva, a French company resulting from a merger between French and German nuclear-plant-builders, in China, Finland and France.
The shift into pharma gained speed when the company, later renamed Jubilant Life Sciences, acquired a U.S. FDA-approved pill-and-capsule plant in the U.S. in the mid-2000s.
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The company is investing more in liquefied natural gas projects in Asia and increased production at its huge Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar.
Critics complain that no one makes anything in Silicon Valley anymore, a two-decade-long gripe that arcs from Apple s decision to shut down its Fremont, California factory in 1992 through Intel s shuttering of its last Silicon Valley chip-fabrication plant in 2009.
In addition, production will start this year at a newly acquired particle-board plant in Novgorod, Russia.
Last month, Sharp and the Italian utility ENEL agreed to build a solar-power plant in Italy, allowing ENEL to sell large volumes of sun-generated energy.
The utility bought a half-built, 1, 200-megawatt gas-fired plant in Las Vegas from Duke Energy (nyse: DKE - news - people ) and finished it.
Its a 100-square-meter plant, based in a paper-pulp factory near Oslo Fjord and is expected to generate up to four kilowatts of power.
In a conventional fossil-fuel plant that's prohibitively expensive, since the CO2 is mixed in with nitrogen.
If it opens as planned, in 2011, China will have the most high-tech low-emissions coal-fired plant in the world.
In response to the tight supply, Lim recently announced plans to buy a latex-concentrate plant in Thailand and is building another.
Electric cars help fight global warming because they contribute less greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than gasoline-powered cars, even if the electricity is made in a coal-fired power plant.
Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.
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