The Green Gap: Where’s the Green In Your Data Center?
“Green” is a widely recognized, liberally utilized term to connote environmental responsibility, including its application to buildings for qualities like energy efficiency and low carbon footprint....
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement: China Halts ConocoPhillips Operations
The Chinese government yesterday ordered ConocoPhillips to stop operations at several rigs in an area affected by a 336 square mile oil slick, warning that another spill could happen “at any time,”...
View ArticleCompliance & Standards Briefing: Leaks, Labeling and Laundry
Officials in Maine plan to announce on Friday that Chevron will pay a large settlement for more than 140,000 gallons of oil that has been seeping from storage tanks from the 1940s to the 1980s into the...
View ArticleRenewables Briefing: Redskins, Marines, Air Products, U.S. Foodservice, Hiram...
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $105 million loan guarantee to support the development of the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic...
View ArticleAEP Shelves Major Carbon Capture Project
American Electric Power has shelved plans to build one of the nation’s first carbon capture and storage facilities, terminating a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. In a...
View ArticleKenmore, Rheem, LG to Display New Energy Star Seal
Electrolux, Sears Kenmore, LG and Samsung are a few of the brands that have earned a new Energy Star label designating the most energy-efficient products in each category. The Most Efficient pilot...
View ArticleEPA Proposes New Secondary Standards For NOx, SOx
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed secondary air quality standards to protect the environment from nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. The agency is proposing both to retain the...
View ArticlePanel Talks Venture Capital and Sustainability
Highlights from a panel discussion exploring new investment criteria for developing energy and energy-related technologies, new materials, green jobs, etc., at the 40th Wharton Global Alumni Forum...
View ArticleWater Use Falls at SABMiller, But Steady at MillerCoors
SABMiller cut both its relative water consumption and fossil fuel emissions by three percent and recycled 96 percent of its waste last year, according to the company’s sustainable development report....
View ArticlePolicy & Regulations Briefing: House Passes Water Bill, Plastic’s Future,...
The House on Wednesday passed H.R. 2018, siding with states and their ability to set clean water standards, despite a veto threat from the Obama administration, Bloomberg News said. Today, the Interior...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Sets Goals for Carbon, Water, Waste, Renewables
Johnson & Johnson is targeting a 20 percent cut in facility CO2 emissions by 2020 and a 10 percent cut in water use by 2015, as part of a suite of new goals unveiled yesterday. The environmental...
View ArticleHonda Hits Zero Waste at Ten Plants, On Heels of GM News
Honda has achieved zero waste to landfill status at ten of its 14 plants in North America, with the remaining plants achieving a “virtually zero” level, the car maker has announced. Among all of its 14...
View ArticleLego Drops APP Packaging After Greenpeace Campaign
Lego has bowed to pressure from Greenpeace, reportedly agreeing to drop supplier Asia Pulp and Paper, and the toy company says it will only use packaging material certified by the Forest Stewardship...
View ArticleThe Real-World Application of Corporate Sustainability
Ask ten different experts to define “corporate sustainability” and you are likely to receive ten different answers all based, to a large extent, on their own experiences. Part of the problem in...
View ArticleInformation Accuracy: The Key to Keeping Seafood Sustainability Efforts on Track
Winston Churchill once said, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” That quote seems especially relevant to those of us who have started down this sustainable...
View Article10,000 MW of Renewables Pass Military Muster
Over 10 gigawatts (10,000 MW) of renewable power have cleared a significant hurdle, with the Department of Defense’s finding that 229 such projects will have little or no impact on military missions....
View ArticleWater News: Consol, LG, Hitachi, Siemens
Consol Energy has selected Veolia Water to design, build and operate a mine water treatment system to be located near Mannington, W.Va. Veolia Water will be treating mine water from CONSOL’s...
View ArticleUnited Technologies Discusses Energy Efficient Building Systems
Clas Jacobson, Building Control Systems Specialist at United Technologies, discusses the conditions in Europe that are promoting the development and adoption of highly energy efficient building systems...
View ArticleAir Products’ GHG Rises, NOx and SOx Fall
Air Products’ greenhouse gas intensity rose in 2010, but the company is still on track to meet its 2015 reduction target, according to its 2011 sustainability report The $9 billion-sales producer of...
View ArticleEnvironmental & Energy Executive Moves: Eaton, MWW, 1E, AWWA, UL
Eaton: The powertrain company has appointed Harold Jones as its new leader of the environmental, health and safety group. Jones was general manager of the global EHS function at GE Aviation Systems....
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