News & Events
There’s always a lot happening at FGBC and in the world of green building. Here, we’ve assembled information that will keep you abreast of recent developments in our organization and throughout our industry. We hope you find the news links interesting and helpful, and the event calendar a timely resource to help keep you plugged into other opportunities where you can continue to enhance your knowledge on the subjects of green building and sustainability.
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EPA and Springfield, Illinois, Agree to Address Coal Ash Contamination
[Jan 29, 2025] The EPA and Springfield, Illinois, have agreed on measures to address coal ash contamination at CWLP facilities near Lake Springfield.
Strengthening Energy Grids to Withstand Natural Disasters
[Sep 13, 2024] Strengthening energy grids to withstand natural disasters is crucial as climate change intensifies extreme weather, leading to more frequent and prolonged power outages, and the aging infrastructure struggles to keep pace with rising energy demands.
Advancing Environmental Sustainability: The Crucial Role of Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers in Renewable Energy Manufacturing
[Aug 2, 2024] While renewable energy technologies are key in combating climate change, their manufacturing processes must avoid environmental degradation, highlighting the crucial role of Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTOs) in mitigating pollution in solar, wind, electric vehicle (EV), and hydrogen production.
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Top Technology
Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets
[Apr 19, 2025] Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars.
How thoughts influence what the eyes see
[Apr 19, 2025] A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.
Scientists probe the mystery of Titan's missing deltas
[Apr 18, 2025] New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world.
Top Environment
Unlocking the genetic basis of adaptive evolution: study reveals complex chromosomal rearrangements in a stick insect
[Apr 19, 2025] Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from one part of a chromosome to another, independently in populations of stick insects on different mountains.
Seismology: How wide are faults?
[Apr 18, 2025] Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?
Nonalcoholic beer yeasts evaluated for fermentation activity, flavor profiles
[Apr 18, 2025] Food scientists evaluated 11 commercially available yeast strains to identify their strengths based on chemical analysis and sensory panel opinions. Most of the yeasts that were tested are strains that have been developed or screened to not ferment maltose, the primary sugar created from malted barley in the beer-making process.