DALLAS — An Arkansas nanotechnology company has been awarded $224,997 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a green alternative to fluorescent lighting.

Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication Laboratories LLC (NN-Labs) of Fayetteville is one of seven small businesses to receive a total of  $1.6 million in funding to commercialize green technologies.

NN-Labs was awarded a Phase II SBIR cont

CHICAGO — The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has re-elected John W. Rowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corp., as chairman of its board of directors.  NEI also has re-elected W. Gary Gates, president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District, as vice chairman of the board.

NEI elected two new members and re-elected three members to its board of directors.  Three new members were elected to the board’s executive committee, and three me

DENVER — As part of an initiative to strengthen the company’s board of directors’ leadership and enhance corporate governance, the board of directors of Evergreen Energy Inc., a cleaner coal technology, energy production and environmental solutions company, has added energy and capital markets veteran William H. Walker Jr. to its board of directors as its new non-executive chairman.

Walker, 62, is former president of Howard Weil Inc., a respected energy and capital f

HOUSTON — Planet Resource Recovery Inc. has announced the appointment of Lawrence Clayton Jr. to its advisory board.  Clayton is a private consultant with significant financial and operational energy expertise, having served at high growth energy companies as chief financial officer and senior vice president over the past 20 years. 

Clayton will sit on the Planet Resource Recovery Inc. Advisory Board, advising senior management in financial analysis, deal-structuring,

LUBBOCK, Texas — Global Recycle Energy Inc., formerly Charter Equities, a Texas-based recycling company, has announced that it has redirected its business to focus on the cotton recycling market.

Located in Lubbock, the company’s primary focus is now the accumulation of cotton waste products from cotton growers that it further refines and separates to recapture unusable fibers and then distributes those fibers for sale and use in China.  Those fibers are used in combi

BALTIMORE — Saul Ewing LLP has announced that Randall M. Lutz has joined its Baltimore office as a partner in the Environmental Department and a member of the Energy and Utility Practice Group.

Before entering private practice in 1987, Lutz served in various public positions, including working as the director of the Office of Criminal Enforcement for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, principal counsel and assistant attorney general of the State of Maryland’s Depart

PHILADELPHIA — Officials from Major League Baseball, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Green-e Energy and WindStreet Energy, as well as Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, joined the Philadelphia Phillies April 30 in announcing a major initiative at Citizens Bank Park to aid in the efforts for a cleaner environment.

To offset the carbon footprint created by the team's utility power usag

NEW YORK — The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) today announced a "Green Portfolio" partnership to measure and improve the environmental performance of companies within KKR's U.S. portfolio.  The partnership is the first of its kind between a private equity firm and an environmental organization.

KKR has committed to work with EDF to develop a set of analytic tools by which companies can assess and track improvement

NEW YORK — The GreenLife Organization LLC, a provider of carbon offsets and carbon management services, has announced that Mark LaCroix has been named executive vice president of business development.

He will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive sales program, driving new business through innovative opportunities that build value for clients’ businesses via carbon reduction and other sustainability-based initiatives.

LaCroix brings more than

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Barbara D. Beck, Ph.D., DABT, FATS, a Principal of Gradient Corp., is president-elect of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, the leading international organization for the certification of toxicologists.

Academy Fellows are chosen based on education, professional experience, demonstrated achievement, proven ability and scientific expertise.  Beck is an expert in toxicology and in health risk assessment for environmental chemicals, especially metals and

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — International Energy Inc., a developer of leading-edge technologies for the renewable generation of photosynthetic biofuels, has announced the appointment of Rakesh Shankar, a noted environmental author, energy sector expert, negotiator and diplomat, to the company’s Scientific Advisory Board.

A respected lecturer, published environmental author, former university professor and researcher, Shankar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science (ph

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Miles Electric Vehicles has announced the appointment of Kevin Czinger as president and chief executive officer.

Czinger has served as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann AG, the Webvan Group and Global Signal.  Czinger has also been active at Benchmark Capital and as a senior managing director of Fortress Private Equity Funds.  He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and is a leader in the charter school initiative fo

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NEW YORK — The international law firm Chadbourne & Parke has announced that it has launched a nanotechnologies practice, with a transdisciplinary approach bringing together the expertise of long-established Chadbourne practices.  The strategy reflects the needs of clients developing or directly interested in nanotechnology-based products and services in multiple sectors of the global economy.

Nanotechnology, the science of manipulating and engineering matter at the atom

ATLANTA — Powell Goldstein LLP has announced the launch of its new Sustainability Practice.  The firm-wide group brings together attorneys from all of the firm's locations and centralizes the work they are already doing in this area on behalf of clients.

The Powell Goldstein Sustainability Practice works with clients on diverse issues that often lead to changes in production and consumption — sustaining business while protecting natural resources.  The practice w