Word: retrofit
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McCall is unapologetic about TXU's plans--and so far, the regulators are on his side. McCall wonders how anybody could oppose a plan to build 11 new plants--and retrofit old ones--while lowering overall emissions 20% (that's right, 20% below their current level). TXU would also beat by five years emissions-cap guidelines for the second phase of a federal program to reduce nitrogen oxide by 2010. "I'm worried I'm not being an effective communicator here," he says in frustration during an interview at the company's Dallas headquarters. Although it's the state...
...retirement funds, are pressing TXU, whose stock is up about 20% this year, about its aggressive coal strategies. In a letter last May, the two retirement funds, which manage $400 billion in assets, expressed worries about the company "exposing itself to unprecedented compliance costs" should it be forced to retrofit its new coal-fired plants for possible greenhouse-gas limits...
...plan's slow rollout is raising eyebrows. The Clintonites and the American Heart Association seem to trust the companies when they say they need time to renegotiate their beverage contracts with the schools and retrofit their vending machines, but for some people that doesn't wash. "They have to be kidding, no?" asks New York University's Nestle. "Implementation by 2010? Today's kids will be grown up by then. I read this as a ploy to keep the vending machines in the schools at any cost...
...Schendler insulated trailers for the poor before joining Amory Lovins' famed Rocky Mountain Institute. He found a kindred spirit in ASC president and CEO Pat O'Donnell, although the road to environmental enlightenment at ASC hasn't always been smooth. It took four years to persuade the company to retrofit a parking garage with fluorescent light fixtures, a move Schendler calculates rid the atmosphere of 300,000 lbs. of CO2 annually...
...come from a new alliance of public-health experts, urban planners and architects nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That collaboration helped promote New Urbanism, a movement to build "walkable," mixed-use communities in which residences are a short distance from commercial centers. It also spurred efforts to retrofit cities and towns with what some call "complete streets"--thoroughfares that include sidewalks, bike paths and a protective strip of parked cars or vegetation to shield pedestrians from traffic. Reid Ewing, associate professor of urban studies at the University of Maryland, believes we may be seeing the first fruits...