Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Carbon Standards, Pipeline Closure, Dyno Nobel...
The EPA has rescheduled two delayed listening sessions on its forthcoming carbon standards for existing power plants. The Boston session has been rescheduled for November 4, and the Philadelphia...
View ArticleDisney Gets an A, Carnival an F for Cruise Line Sewage Treatment
Disney Cruise Line is the most environmentally responsible line, earning an A for sewage treatment and an overall A grade, according to Friends of the Earth’s 2013 Cruise Ship Report Card. Disney is...
View ArticleStaples, HP, Marriott Staff Back Chemical Assessment Principles
Staples, Hewlett-Packard, Marriott, Timberland, Method and Seventh Generation are among the companies whose senior environmental staff have signed onto the Commons Principles for Alternatives...
View ArticleGlobal Treaty to End Commercial Use of Mercury
The commercial use of mercury could end within three decades under a legally binding treaty signed as international law at a gathering last week of nearly 140 government delegations. To date, 92...
View ArticleWhat Is Sustainability?
Senior executives are typically foresighted and clear-headed in matters that are material to their business, yet are not sufficiently informed as to understand how externalities can effect financial...
View ArticleNet-Zero-Energy Buildings Attract ‘Knowledge Workers’
Green building consultant Jerry Yudelson says the business case for investment in net-zero-energy buildings is about more than energy savings. Yudelson, who will address the Sheet Metal and Air...
View Article$181 Million Available to Develop Biorefineries
The US Department of Agriculture has made available $181 million to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels....
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: FedEx Express, GE, GM, Chargepoint, Volvo
FedEx Express has introduced its new 767-300 cargo jet scheduled to begin service this fall. The freighter is approximately 30 percent more fuel efficient and has unit operating costs that are more...
View ArticleClimate Change Investment Totals $359 Billion Worldwide
Global investment in climate change plateaued at $359 billion in 2012, slightly less than the $364 spent the previous year, according to a Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) study. The Global Landscape of...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Wyndham, Carbon Trust Water Standard
Bentley announced that it is the first automaker, and one of the first ten organizations in the world, to achieve the Carbon Trust Water Standard. The company’s Crewe, UK headquarters cut water use by...
View ArticleAir Pollution Hurts Computers, Intel Says
Intel says Asia’s industrial pollution is harming electronics, The Oregonian reports. In addition to shortening human lifespans, air pollution in China and India makes computer failure “multiple” times...
View ArticleEnergy-Related CO2 Emissions Fall to 19-Year Low
US carbon dioxide emissions generated from energy consumption and production fell 3.8 percent in 2012 to 5,290 million metric tons, reaching their lowest level since 1994, according to a report from...
View ArticleFurniture Makers Count Up Formaldehyde Rule Costs
Federal rules on formaldehyde in composite panel could add about $28 million to Ashley Furniture‘s costs, according to CEO Todd Wanek. Speaking at an industry roundtable organized by Furniture Today,...
View ArticleBeverage Companies’ Savings ‘More Than $1M Annually’ Using Wastewater Treatment
California’s Clos du Bois Winery reduced its aeration pump electricity costs and produced a surplus of reusable energy during its field test of Cambrian Innovation’s wastewater treatment system, which...
View ArticleWater Infrastructure Clogged by Cycle of Debt and Rate Hikes
People who work in the water industry aren’t immune to the common household problem of clogged drains. When they happen, they’re an inconvenience for everyone, often reflecting years of buildup that’s...
View ArticleBuilding Owners Find Big Savings in ‘Stray’ Energy
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has a new report, Real Time Energy Management, which validates the substantial savings available by catching stray energy in buildings. According to an NRDC...
View ArticlePartnering to Address Environmental Issues: Success from the Private Sector
Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, discusses environmental management success stories at the MDIBL summit.
View Article‘Misguided’ Water-Risk Management at Largest Firms, CDP Says
A misguided approach to water-related risk management is business as usual at the world’s largest global companies such as BP, Bayer, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Nestle, Walmart and Unilever,...
View ArticleCleantech Future Breeds New Optimism
If you’ve not been paying much attention to cleantech in the last little while, it’s time to sit up and take notice. Because post-Solyndra, cleantech has been quietly gaining momentum. We had the...
View ArticleLargest US Landfill Closes
The largest landfill in the US shut it gates forever yesterday. After 56 years of operation, the Puente Hills Landfill in southeastern Los Angeles County has collected around 130 million tons of waste...
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