Sustainability : Buzz

cleveland needs solar power, says plain dealer guest columnist

The Plain Dealer Thursday, August 23, 2012

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abs materials receives grant to advance absorbent glass materials to recycle produced water

New Technology Magazine Thursday, July 12, 2012

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 2012 SBIR IIB Grant of $497,404 to ABSMaterials, Inc., parent company of PWAbsorbents, Inc., to accelerate the commercial capacity to manufacture advanced materials for recycling produced, frac and flowback waters. Read the article here.

Honda takes on new model at East Liberty plant

DAYTON DAILY NEWS, 11/3/09 Thursday, November 05, 2009

Honda's East Liberty, Ohio auto plant has begun mass production of the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour, reports the Dayton Daily News.

Honda is touting the vehicle as "a new type of crossover utility vehicle that combines the premium refinement of the Accord with the versatile characteristics of a sport-utility vehicle, including a highly functional under-floor storage area." Honda has some 14,000 workers in Ohio.

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Natural gas pipeline promises jobs to Ohioans in its path

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/3/09 Thursday, October 08, 2009

To the energy industry, REX is the king of pipelines. For Zanesville's struggling work force, REX is the king of jobs, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The last leg of one of the largest natural-gas pipelines built in 25 years -- stretching 1,679 miles from Colorado to Ohio -- is being laid, welded and buried under fields just east of Zanesville. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Rockies Express, or REX will link the vast but remote stores of fossil fuel buried under the Rocky Mountains with the power-hungry markets of the Midwest and Northeast.

Original source: The Wall Street Journal
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