Companies Can Bridge Climate Language Gap
The war of words is getting heated as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to launch a key report, detailing global warming predictions, in Stockholm next week. Climate-denying...
View ArticleSustainability Stock Index Firms Beat Overall Market
Ford, General Electric, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Campbell Soup are among the companies listed on a stock index of sustainability leaders launched yesterday by the UN Global Compact that shows a total...
View ArticleNYC Mulls Food Waste Ban
Composting, turning food waste into energy or otherwise recycling it may soon be mandatory for large-scale producers of food waste in New York City, reports Crain’s New York Business. New York City...
View ArticleCathode Ray Tube Recycling Solution Creates New Use for Treated Glass
Metals and electronics recycler Kuusakoski Recycling announced a partnership with solid and industrial waste and recycling services firm Peoria Disposal Company to process cathode ray tube (CRT) glass,...
View ArticleSchneider: Data Center Reference Designs Speed Projects
Schneider Electric announced the public availability of reference designs for data center infrastructure systems. These project planning tools offer documented and validated plans detailing how...
View ArticleKohl’s, Sierra Nevada Win EPA’s WasteWise Awards
Kohl’s, which recycles 83 percent of its waste, is the partner of the year for the EPA’s WasteWise program in the very large business category and Sierra Nevada Brewing won for midsize business. Sears,...
View ArticleIBM Smart City Technology Tapped for India Project
IBM’s smart city technology has been selected by the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) to help cities across India become more sustainable by improving efficiencies in...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: CA Fuel Standards, Loan Guarantee Restart,...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld California transportation fuel standards, which regulate the carbon emitted during production, shipping and use, the New York Times reported. The decision...
View ArticleGeneral Mills’ Shareholders Vote on Post-Consumer Waste Strategies
General Mills’ investors will ask the company to take responsibility for recycling its post-consumer packaging waste at the firm’s annual meeting Sept. 24. At the company meeting in Minneapolis,...
View ArticleCargill Sustainability Report: GHG Intensity Up Year-on-Year
Cargill’s greenhouse gas intensity rose 1 percent during FY 2013, against its 2010 baseline, according to an EL PRO analysis of the company’s last two corporate responsibility reports. In the latest...
View ArticleThe $100 Million Biofuels Scam
The US has charged four men operating E-Biofuels of Middletown, Ind., and two individuals from New Jersey-based Caravan Trading and CIMA Green with defrauding investors and consumers of more than $100...
View ArticleEPA Initiative Aims to Cut Suppliers’ F-GHG Emissions
Korean manufacturer LG Display reduced more than 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent last year, a move that the EPA says illustrates how flat panel display makers are cutting fluorinated...
View ArticleEPA: Softening the Blow for Coal Industry?
Today saw the publication of the EPA’s long-awaited carbon standards for new power plants, and that’s not all: it’s also been confirmed that the Department of Energy will revive a clean energy loan...
View ArticlePower Plant Carbon Emissions Limits Proposed
New large gas-fired power plants would be limited to 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour and new small gas-fired turbines to 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour under the EPA’s...
View ArticleApple, Amazon Among Firms Ignoring SEC Climate Risk Rule
Apple and Amazon are among the nearly 75 percent of US publicly traded companies ignoring a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that they inform investors of climate-related risks, Inside Climate...
View ArticleFarm Group Launches Sustainability Tools for Specialty Crops
A group of farmers, food companies and others — members include Walmart, Del Monte Foods, Campbell Soup, United Fresh Produce Association and Western Growers — today launched measurement tools to...
View ArticleContract Wins: Arby’s, ICF, Harris Utilities, Ryder System, Plum Creek Timber
Powerhouse Dynamics, which developed the eMonitor energy, water and asset management platform, announced that Arby’s Restaurant Group is installing eMonitor systems in all 860 corporate-owned stores...
View ArticleLink Between Sustainability, Business Value Lacking, CEO Study Finds
The majority (63 percent) of CEOs struggle to quantify the business value of sustainability, according to a survey by the UN Global Compact and Accenture. The poll of 1,000 CEOs found the failure to...
View Article4 Challenges Every Sustainability Leader Faces
Regardless of the leadership role we play, there are common challenges every leader faces as we seek to build an organization or guide a team. Dr. Bill Donahue, Linked 2 Leadership If you are leading...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Regs, Debt Ceiling Riders, Total...
California governor Jerry Brown signed the country’s toughest fracking restrictions into law on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports. SB 4, which takes effect in January, requires permitting of...
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