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Last Updated April 12, 2012

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Sustainability Key to Ammunition Plant's Success

Using green practices to prevent air pollution while repurposing projectile casings, steel, mixed metals, and other waste materials to create large caliber ammunition casings is just another day at the office for employees at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, Pa. Story

Navy Seeks Energy Conservation
Insights During Online Exercise

The Navy's Energy and Environmental Readiness Division, together with the Office of Naval Research, is sponsoring an online exercise that will build on efforts to improve the U.S. Navy's combat capability and energy security, particularly by promoting energy efficiency. Story

Air Force Renews Pollution, Waste Control Goals

Air Force leaders recently refocused their pollution prevention and waste elimination efforts by signing a policy memo that outlines service-wide waste minimization goals that will be reached by 2020. Story

Navy to Launch Energy Conservation Program

Navy Installations Command will transfer the responsibility for payment of utilities from the Public Private Venture housing project to individual residents in an effort to encourage greater energy conservation. Story

Air Force Moves Forward with Green Energy

The Air Force is on target to generate one gigawatt of renewable energy by 2016, and expects to have enough renewable energy to supply 25 percent of all installation electricity use by 2025, Air Force officials said. Story

Dashboard Helps Reduce Fuel Consumption

The Navy's new Energy Dashboard proof-of-concept system is one of several shipboard energy efficiency initiatives that provide sailors with a real-time assessment of energy usage and recommended actions to reduce fuel and electrical power consumption. Story

Army's Green Efforts Prepare to Hit the Road

An Autonomous Platform Demonstrator, or APD, maneuvers over concrete blocks during a Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center tour, in conjunction with groundbreaking for the Ground System Power and Energy Lab. Story

Fort Hood Looks to Sky for Renewable Energy

After a year of planning and construction, Fort Hood, Texas, activated a solar field of nearly 3,000 photovoltaic panels that will generate one million kilowatt-hours/year of renewable energy for 300 homes. Story

Top Five Things Airmen Should
Know About Energy Conservation

In a soon-to-be released video, an Air Force senior leader shared key elements of the service's efforts to change the culture of energy and give Airmen a more personal stake in energy conservation as it relates to national security. Story

Navy’s First Alternative Fueling Station Opens

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii officially opened the first of three Ethanol 85 fueling stations planned for the Navy's fleet of flex-fuel vehicles on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Story

Air Force Launches Pollution Prevention Tools

The Air Force launched a new tool kit March 21 to promote pollution prevention across the service. The tool kit provides new, customizable products for use at installations Air Force-wide in creating local Earth Day campaigns. Story

Army to Invest $7 Billion in Renewable-energy

The Army plans to invest more than $7 billion in renewable-energy sources, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal, and has released a draft request for proposal, or RFP, that could allow multiple projects to begin nationwide. Story

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