Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new rules under the Clean Air Act on toxic emissions and in particular, the emission of pollutants by diesel-powered, internal combustion engines Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE) are also known as “compression engines”, are the target of this legislation and they are used very widely across the country to generate electricity, for use in power generation plants, industrial facilities, chemical plants and refineries as well as many manufacturing installations

Many western sewage systems and plants have been in operation for at least 30 years, and some for considerably longer than that This being an area which has not historically received much in the way of attention, probably because this has to be one of the least glamorous operational areas for pumping equipment, and also because government agencies typically control the budgets, allocation of funding for modernization is not high on the list of spending priorities

How many times have you looked inside your jewelry box and saw all the mismatched earrings, broken necklaces, or out of date pieces They sit there inside your box taking up space and collecting dust

Nowadays, with the economy the way it is, every dollar counts You might not realize this, but you may have extra cash that is just sitting there in your home

Your carbon footprint is a measure of how much greenhouse gases you are creating by your activities; for working purposes carbon dioxide is the gas which is measured, however there are other gases and emissions which are created too, it is just that carbon dioxide levels are the most practical variable to focus on