Japanese auto manufacturer Honda launched the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car Sunday in Tochigi, Japan, and said its first customers will be in the United States. The four-door sedan, called the FCX Clarity, runs on electricity from a fuel cell battery powered by hydrogen. Steam is its only by-product. ┬á┬á The car boasts a combined (city and highway driving) fuel efficiency of about 72 miles per kg of H2 which, according to Honda's own estimates, is the equivalent of getting about 74 mpg from a gas-powered car.

Unable to persuade Microsoft to reconsider its purchase offer, and unwilling to sell its online search business separately, Yahoo! has agreed a deal in which Google ads will┬áappear alongside Yahoo! search results in the US and Canada.   ┬á Yahoo said the agreement with Google could be worth up to $800 million in additional revenue every year. ┬á┬á "This commercial agreement provides Yahoo!

Sustainability; green building; carbon neutral; carbon footprint; energy audit. The lexicon of the English language grows larger by the day, and few subjects could have provided more new words and phrases recently than the environment.

Barging inUsing barges to carry cargo on inland waterways is one of the better kept secrets in the transport business, CEO Mike Ryan explains to Gary Toushek. After 20 years in the sales and marketing end of the railroad business (Canadian National Railway Company and CSX Corporation) and a few years at a trucking company (McCollisterÔÇÖs Transportation Systems) as senior vice president and general manager, Mike Ryan arrived at American Commercial Lines (ACL) in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 2005, in charge of sales and marketing, and he quickly learned th