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Photo: Flickr, CC Patience, Grasshopper According to Volt Marketing Director Tony DiSalle, General Motors will build 10,000 Volt “extended-range electric vehicles (aka series plug-in hybrids) by the end of 2011, and an additional 30,000 Volts during the 2012 calendar year. That’s not a lot, and they won’t be available in all markets from the start. [...]

Image via Consert Inc Consert Inc, a smart grid software company, is getting some major backing by big companies. Verizon, Qualcomm, Constellation Energy and GE have pulled together $17.7 million to invest in promoting the company’s software. Currently, Consert has software deployed with electric utilities in North Carolina and Texas, but they’re looking to spread. [...]

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, July 1, 2010 (ENS) – Hurricane Alex made landfall Wednesday night in northeastern Mexico as a Category Two storm, hammering residents of the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Photo: Illumitex Brilliant Idea Unless we want to see most of human civilization shut down as soon as the sun sets, we’ll have to keep finding ways to produce artificial light. But how can we do that in a way that uses as little energy as possible and that produces no toxic waste? Illumitex is [...]

CPS Energy said it will be deploying smart grid technology developed by Landis+Gyr to over 1 million customers in the San Antonio, Texas area by 2015. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

HOUSTON, Texas, June 25, 2010 (ENS) – Using a $400 store-bought digital camera, Texas scientists have created an inexpensive device that allows doctors to immediately tell whether or not a patient… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

HOUSTON, Texas, June 23, 2010 (ENS) – More oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead today due to a problem with the containment cap over the leaking pipe…. Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Toshiba is getting ready to expand production of electric car motors to here in the United States by building out its Houston, Texas plant to meet what it feels will be a massive future demand. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Photo via TBO The biggest splash in politics last week, at least ’round the blogoshpere and cable news circuit, was undoubtedly Representative Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) surprise apology to BP. While many conservatives supported his sentiment, many others immediately recognized the political damage it could cause, and rushed to distance themselves from the apology. The whole [...]

HOUSTON, Texas, June 18, 2010 (ENS) – Today BP reiterated its pledge to clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and to pay “all legitimate claims” arising from the spill, even… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.