Press Releases

“This exciting partnership represents one more step toward abrighter future for our region,” Kaptur said. “Bringing NASA into ournationally-recognized alternative energy initiative will help make theUniversity of Toledo the center for solar energy research in America.”

Congresswoman Kaptur made the announcement at an event held at theincubator, where she was joined by Dr. Lloyd A. Jacobs, president ofthe University of Toledo, and Lucas County Commissioner TinaSkeldon-Wozniak.

Congresswoman Kaptur participated in a signing ceremony on Tuesday to formalize a collaboration agreement among several agencies to develop an intermodal shipping facility in the Toledo area.

The goal is to position Toledo as a strategic partner in the “Atlantic Gateway” project, which seeks to take advantage of the “container revolution” that has reshaped international commerce.

Once again the world condemns the action only with words, leaving the defenders of liberty to their own devices.

Who believes Russia’s stated reason for attacking the sovereignnation of Georgia? Vladimir Putin’s rationale for the attack—ethnicaffinity for separatists in a Georgian region known as South Ossetia—isno more believable than George Bush’s claim of weapons of massdestruction in Iraq.

The common denominator (and perhaps the real reason): oil.

Once again the world watches in horror as Russian tanks trample over freedom, this time in Georgia. As in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1978, Russia has brutally attacked a small neighbor for daring to act independently.

Once again the world condemns the action only with words, leaving the defenders of liberty to their own devices.

A group of three federal agencies has presented a plan for minimizing the impacts of freshwater algal blooms, some of which have harmed the Lake Erie ecosystem.

A copy of the report is available here.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science and Technology Council report, which was mandated by Congress in 2004, also sets forth priorities in dealing with algal blooms.

Standing against a backdrop of a solar panel array at the 180th Fighter Wing, Kaptur said the initiative “to capture the power of the sun from the blue yonder and transmit it back to the base electrical system” represents a pioneering effort to make U.S. military bases energy independent. Current construction efforts will install the first one third of a field array that ultimately will produce one megawatt of power, or half the base energy supply.