April 2009
With the New EPA, New Day Dawns for Brownfields
Cover StoryBy Steve Dwyer
The site was the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The introduction speech was delivered by Blake Jones, CEO of Namaste Solar, a Boulder, Colo.-based solar electricity company.
In February, Jones had the honor of introducing President Barack Obama as the new commander-in-chief prepared to sign the 2009 Economic Recovery bill. Before the introduction, Jones spoke to the audience about how his solar energy business had suffered mightily in 2008 as the economy went into a …
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By Elizabeth Brewster
Midwest: People
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Profile
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By Elizabeth Brewster
Publisher's Letter
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By Robert Colangelo
Transportation
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Women
Women on the Move
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Aaron Scheff
Brownfield Response Program Manager, Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality
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Count On It
  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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