Plastics Industry: Is Green Becoming the Key Economic Driver?
Discussion on sustainability and the plastics industry from PolyTalk ’11. Moderators: Giles Merritt, Friends of Europe Panellists: Anne-Christine Ayed Executive Vice President Research, Innovation...
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement: Hecla Settles for $263m in Huge Superfund Case
The Hecla Mining Company will pay $263.4 million plus interest to the United States, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the state of Idaho to resolve claims that it released millions of tons of wastes from...
View ArticleAhold to Use EnerNOC Efficiency IT at 630 Stores
Stop & Shop owner Ahold USA is deploying EnerNOC’s EfficiencySMART Insight platform to reduce energy usage and spending across 630 stores. The system will use real-time data from Ahold’s...
View ArticleCombining Your CSR Reports Increases Accountability to All Stakeholders
Two notable trends have emerged in corporate reporting over the past several years: the rapid rise of annual CSR reports and the rapid decline of annual financial reports. What hasn’t been notable is...
View ArticleExecuting Your Sustainability Strategy: Three Critical Steps
So you have completed your corporate sustainability strategy. Now what? Will your company take a collective deep breath and jump into execution? If you are like many other well-meaning companies, you...
View ArticlePolicy & Regulatory Briefing: Ethanol, EIA, Calif. Cap and Trade
An amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to eliminate a 45 cent on the dollar tax break given to ethanol blenders was defeated 40-59 on Tuesday, the Hill reports. More ethanol battles are expected in the...
View ArticleMcGraw-Hill to Build Record-Breaking Solar System in NJ
The McGraw-Hill Companies and NJR Clean Energy Ventures, a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, plan to build the nation’s largest privately-owned, net-metered solar project on the publisher’s East...
View ArticleWornick Foods Cuts Water Use 80% with Cooling System
Wornick Foods, a manufacturer of convenience foods and military rations, says it reduced its water usage by 80 percent and improved the quality of its products using a new water reclamation system. The...
View ArticleWhat’s Hot in HVAC
Energy-efficient heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC) still faces an uphill battle for adoption, but many lower-cost options are making this technology more attractive to companies,...
View ArticlePlastics Industry: The Sustainability Agenda
Another discussion from PolyTalk ’11 on the plastics industries progress on sustainability. Moderator: Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Panellists: Julio Garcia Burgues, Head of Unit, European Commission DG...
View ArticleU.S. Capitol Power Supplier Saves $9.5m on Natural Gas
The facility powering the U.S. Capitol and other key buildings has saved more than $9.5 million on a new 17-month natural gas contract secured through the World Energy Exchange, according to government...
View ArticleRenewable Briefing: AstraZeneca, Bloomberg, UPS, Total, ClearEdge
Industrial solar power company Solar Trust of America breaks ground Friday on the Blythe Solar Power Project, expected to be the largest solar thermal power facility in the world. The Blythe,...
View ArticleSustainable Packaging: Not That There’s Anything Wrong with It
This classic guilt-ridden Seinfeld come-back is what I often want to say when talking to people about sustainable packaging. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with working on reducing packaging...
View ArticleBuilding Owners Expect Energy Price Spike, Target 12% Energy Reduction
Eighty percent of building owners expect double-digit energy price increases over the next year, which has prompted an average energy reduction target of 12 percent, according to Johnson Controls...
View ArticleOpportunities and Risks in Drilling the Marcellus Shale
A recent television commercial features the CEO of a major energy company stating that a key component of America’s energy independence is “right below our feet.” The resource in question is natural...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Demand Response, Aviation Biofuel, Ratings
Ceres and Tellus Institute are working to create a single standard for rating company sustainability performance. They have started a coalition, the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings, whose...
View ArticleEPA Launches Toxicity and Exposure Databases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched two databases that it says will improve decisions about chemical safety, including at the agency itself. The two public sites, the Toxicity...
View ArticleSustainability Software Expands at Operational, Process Level
A broad new range of software is emerging in response to companies’ need for operational and process-level sustainability management, according to a report by AltaTerra. The report, “Enterprise...
View ArticleSolar PV Could Cost Less than Fossil Fuels in 10 Years
The cost of solar photovoltaic systems could become cheaper than even fossil fuels over within the next ten years, according to technology advancement association IEEE. But IEEE said that to achieve...
View ArticleFord Beats Facilities Targets on Water, Efficiency, Waste
Last year Ford beat nearly all its facilities-based environmental targets, with a 5.6 percent improvement in global energy efficiency, and an eight percent reduction in water use, according to its...
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