Building Safety Month – Commemorating a 30-Year Legacy of Leadership When you enter a house or building, most likely you’re not thinking about whether it is properly constructed and safe. Fortunately, your local safety experts think about building safety and fire prevention every day. To help raise awareness of building safety, May is designated as [...]

NEWS from IEEE-USA                 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-4910 Biogas Technology with Potential to Save Thousands of Lives to be Featured at IEEE Green Technologies Conference in Grapevine, Texas WASHINGTON (31 March 2010) – About 1.6 million people — mostly women and children — die each year from indoor air pollution caused [...]

NSPE PRESS RELEASE Release: Immediate Contact: Stacey A. Ober 703-684-2815 National Society of Professional Engineers Announces Partnership with ENERGY STAR® ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 23, 2010) – Members and their clients can now improve the energy efficiency and performance of their facilities and projects, and make a fundamental commitment to protecting the environment, through a new [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 18, 2010 EPA Initiates Hydraulic Fracturing Study Agency seeks input from Science Advisory Board   WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will conduct a comprehensive research study to investigate the potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing may have on water quality and public health. Natural gas [...]

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Ashley Katz Communications Manager, USGBC 202.742.3738 akatz@usgbc.org Follow us on Twitter at @USGBC ICC, ASHRAE, USGBC and IES Announce Nation’s First Set of Model Codes and Standards for Green Building in the U.S. First of its kind collaboration designed to boost critical green building practices across the country March 11, 2010 (Washington, [...]