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Label Would Identify Local Food

The European directorate general for agriculture is working on a label to identify “local” products – but the project faces a number of difficulties. It’s unclear how such a label would be regulated,...

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Cargill Quantifies Supply Chain Risks

Cargill has a new assessment tool to help food and beverage customers identify and quantify risks and opportunities in its supply chains. The tool provides the food ingredients company and its...

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The Role Reputation Plays in Sustainability – Part 2

Part 2 of the edition of the DuPont Collaboration Series that takes a closer look at why reputation remains a key focus of sustainability efforts, as well as the means through which companies can...

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Contract Wins: ADB, Versar, Calgon Carbon, Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech, a consulting and construction management firm, has been awarded a $20 million contract, with an option for an additional $3.5 million, with the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company to...

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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chemical Safety, EMD Millipore Fine, GOP Tries...

The House this morning approved the Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, 232-183, largely along party lines, hours before the chamber was due to adjourn for recess. The bill...

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Tom’s Of Maine Taps Potatoes For Packaging

Tom’s of Maine is exploring ways to use waste potatoes — produced locally in Maine — as packaging for its products. The company is working with researchers at the University of Maine and the...

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Wurth Meets Safety Data Compliance in 80 Countries with SAP

Wurth Group has signed a customer contract with German-based SAP to use SAP’s software to support product compliance, including safety data sheets, across operations globally. In taking this step, the...

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INEOS Bio Produces Cellulosic Ethanol at Commercial Scale

INEOS Bio’s Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Fla., is now producing cellulosic ethanol at commercial scale with the first ethanol shipments to be released this month. It is the first...

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Google Fellows Slam Inhofe Fundraiser

Google is facing renewed criticism for its decision to make strange bedfellows in the form of climate change denying Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK). Seventeen researchers, who all visited the company as Google...

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Shipowners Face Impending Ballast Water Management Regulations

Shipowners face a string of impending ballast water regulations that will require a number of expensive upgrades and training, according to a legal briefing prepared by insurer UK P&I Club. Once...

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Sustainability Board Launches First Sector Standards, for Healthcare

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has released its first set of provisional, industry-specific standards, targeting the healthcare sector. SASB’s provisional standards are available for six...

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Campbell Soup’s Plum Organics, Method Among First Benefit Corporations in...

Campbell Soup Company brand Plum Organics, Ecover’s US home goods company Method and fair trade food business Alter Eco were among the first  17 companies to register as benefit corporations since...

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Sustainability and Social Metrics

Dr. Peggy Ward, director of sustainability strategies for Kimberly-Clark Corp., discusses the importance of addressing social metrics with NAEM.

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Green Fleet Roundup: Tesla, MetLife, Freightliner, LG Chem

Tesla Motors will work on penetrating China’s auto market with its all-electric Model S sedan, strengthened by its success in the US and in Europe, reports the San Jose Mercury News. It will open its...

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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chemical Safety, Nuclear ‘Mafia’, Fry’s...

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration failed to implement changes the board has urged for years, for safety improvements to...

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E-Waste Can Absorb Toxic Heavy Metals In Water

Researchers in Hong Kong have discovered that ground-up circuit boards can be used to absorb toxic heavy metals found in water, Chemical & Engineering News reports. Scientist Gordon McKay and his...

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EWSI Launches Carbon Trading Software For E-Waste Industry

E-Waste Systems is rolling out software that can identify and quantify the energy use of electronics to help companies cut energy consumption, comply with e-waste recycling rules and facilitate carbon...

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Innovation Key in Water Treatment Market

  Product differentiation and innovation are key in targeting the $14 billion market for point-of-use and point-of-entry water treatment products in developing nations, some of which will grow at an...

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15 Tips to Build a Successful Clean/Green Tech Incubator

I’ve been helping behind the scenes on a new cleantech incubator recently launched in Vancouver, Canada called the Foresight Cleantech Accelerator. And in the process, I’ve been getting the opportunity...

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Vitter Promises Bill Fix to Protect Prop. 65

Who says Congress is slow: Senators have already reacted to reports that the Lautenberg-Vitter chemical regulation bill threatens California’s Proposition 65 and other state rules. Last week nine...

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