Home Depot Sued by Calif. Counties over Paint VOC Levels
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the air pollution control agency for Orange County and much of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, filed a lawsuit against The...
View ArticleReport: Sustainability Surveys Eating Up Company Time
Requests for company sustainability data are often redundant and take up considerable time, up to the equivalent of two full-time staff members, according to a report by the National Association for...
View ArticleKimberly-Clark to Cut GHG 5%, Water 25% by 2015
Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, Scott and Huggies, has committed to a 25 percent cut in water use and five percent absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, from a 2010...
View ArticleEPA Publishes Classified Industry Chemical Info
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry. For these...
View ArticleWhat Does Sustainable Design Mean to You?
Here’s video from a AIGA Colorado-hosted SHIFT event – ten speakers take five minutes each to answer the question: “What does sustainable design mean to you?”
View ArticleSolar Briefing: Hershey, Arizona Western, McCormick
Arizona Western College (AWC) in Yuma, Ariz., is the site of a 5 MW solar project expected to meet 100 percent of the college’s daytime electrical demand. The project comprises five one-megawatt sites...
View ArticleFive Winds, PE Int’l Merge; Offer Combined Consulting and IT
Sustainability consulting firms PE International and Five Winds International, which share clients including Kraft and Carnival Cruise Lines, have announced a merger aimed at enabling market...
View ArticleEnzymes: Essential, Biobased Building Blocks for a More Sustainable World
Few consumers check the labels on household products to see where their goods were made, and perhaps even fewer are familiar with how they’re manufactured. If consumers were to take a closer look at...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Exxon Suit, WEEE Fraud, RoHS2, 3E
A federal judge has said that the Sierra Club and Environment Texas can sue for enforcement of federal pollution standards at the nation’s largest oil refinery, Reuters reports. The environmental...
View ArticleIBM Launches Building IT; Cuts Energy Use ‘Up to 40%’
IBM today launched its Intelligent Building Management software, which the IT company estimates can reduce maintenance costs by 10 to 30 percent, and cut energy usage by up to 40 percent. The company...
View ArticleAEP Says EPA Rules Will Raise Businesses’ Rates 10-35%
Proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations would cost AEP $6 billion to $8 billion by the end of the decade and raise electricity prices for its business customers by 10 to 35 percent...
View ArticleFleet Briefing: Consumer Reports Rankings, USPS, Sears, Ford
The Honda Fit, Volkswagen Golf TDI and Ford Escape Hybrid are the most fuel efficient vehicles in their classes, according to Consumer Reports. In its July issue, the non-profit magazine is publishing...
View ArticleAustralia Considers Killing Camels for Carbon Credits
Under Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative, a plan to help combat emissions that was recently submitted to parliament, Adelaide-based company Northwest Carbon has suggested the nation solve its feral...
View ArticleIndustrial Energy Efficiency Presentation From Carbon Trust
Henrietta Stock, a technology acceleration manager at Carbon Trust, discusses Industrial Energy Efficiency.
View ArticleVerizon Cuts Data Center Energy Use with Vigilent IT
Verizon has significantly reduced energy consumption and carbon emissions at 24 of its U.S. data centers through its installation of an energy management system from Vigilent, the telecoms company has...
View ArticleThe Defense Department’s Role As Clean Technology Leader
With consumers once again paying $4.00 for a gallon of gasoline, everyone understands energy independence as a pocketbook issue. But energy independence is also a national security issue. The military...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Kyoto, Pfizer, BPA, RGGI
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend plans to place Bisphenol A (BPA) on a list of substances that may harm the environment, the Detroit Free Press...
View ArticleSeventh Gen, Whole Foods Top Green Brands Ranking
Seventh Generation and Whole Foods have topped survey respondents’ rankings of the greenest U.S. brands, even as consumer appetite for green products expands to include big-ticket items like cars and...
View ArticleMarks & Spencer Over Halfway on Plan A Sustainability Goals
Marks & Spencer has achieved over half of the commitments outlined in its ecological and ethical corporate program, Plan A, according to its How We Do Business Report for 2010/11. The report says...
View ArticleGoogle and Coulomb Install 70 EV Charging Stations
Google has expanded its electric vehicle infrastructure to over 220 charging stations with the addition of 71 faster, Level 2 chargers from Coulomb Technologies. The charging stations will used by...
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