Sierra Club Urges ‘Timeout’ on Natural Gas Exports
The Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Clean Water Action, and other groups have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to put the brakes on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports until the government...
View ArticleNestlé Sustainability Report: 35% Direct GHG Emissions Reduction Targeted
Nestlé has announced a goal of reducing its direct greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of product by 35 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2015 amid a raft of targets in its latest sustainability...
View ArticleEU Cancels Carbon Auction, Prices Drop
The European Union canceled an auction of carbon permits for the first time, causing prices to drop to their second-lowest close on record. The auction was canceled because bids failed to reach a...
View ArticleFAA Approves Boeing Dreamliner Battery Tests
Boeing has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to test improvements to the 787 Dreamliner’s battery system — the first step in winning FAA approval to resume commercial 787...
View ArticleNREL Uses Data Center to Heat Office
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has debuted its high performance computing (HPC) data center in Golden, Colo. NREL plans to capture the heat generated by the...
View ArticleMettler Toledo, Thermo Fisher Offer Water Testing
Mettler Toledo and Thermo Fisher Scientific have partnered to provide multiparameter water testing. While water analysis typically involves multiple steps, instruments and workflows, and intensive...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: VW, Nissan, Fuel Cell Buses
The first all-electric Volkswagen, e-up! (pictured), debuted at the Annual Press and Investors Conference in Wolfsburg, Germany this week. VW says the new four-seater EV has a 18.7 kWh lithium-ion...
View ArticleChargePoint Unveils 1st of 80-Plus NY Charging Stations
ChargePoint Inc. announced the first of more than 80 electric vehicle charging stations it will install in New York, through a $1 million incentive from the New York State Energy Research and...
View ArticleGRI ‘Among Top CSR’ Instruments
The Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines now rank among the most widely recognized corporate social responsibility instruments among large European companies, according to new research published by...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Drilling, Bee Vote, Enbridge Cleanup,...
Shell must provide a detailed plan addressing safety and operational issues that thwarted its efforts to extract oil in the Arctic Ocean last year if it wants to resume drilling off the coast of...
View ArticleDow Chemical to Offset Olympics CO2
Dow Chemical, which was named the Official Carbon Partner of the XXII Olympic Winter Games, plans to mitigate the carbon footprint of the Sochi 2014 Games using its energy-efficient technologies. Dow...
View ArticleCo-operative Launches Water, Waste Targets
Having achieved an 18 percent reduction in water consumption since 2008, the UK’s Co-operative Group grocery chain has pledged to reduce the water consumption across its operations by 30 percent by...
View ArticleOpposition Grows to San Francisco’s Green Energy Plans
Electricity rates for about 90,000 San Francisco ratepayers could almost double if the San Francisco Board of Supervisors goes forward with a deal for Shell Oil to provide 100 percent renewable energy...
View ArticleE-Cycle Launches Wireless Buyback Portal
Mobile buyback and recycling company e-Cycle has launched an online tool that buys used mobile phones and tablets and pays consumers for their used devices while deleting data and recycling the...
View ArticleHow to Build a Sustainable Agriculture Strategy
A new open-source tool aims to give managers a step-by-step roadmap on how to effectively build and roll out sustainable agriculture sourcing strategies. Sustainable Sourcing of Agricultural Raw...
View ArticleBASF, Owens Corning, TenCate Partner on Thermoplastic Composites
Owens Corning, BASF and TenCate Advanced Composites have agreed to work together to develop thermoplastic composites for the mass production of automobiles in an effort to make vehicles lighter and...
View ArticleExploring the Sustainability ‘Gold Standard’
On February 7, 2013 a group of true sustainability diehards braved the onslaught of Snowmageddon Toronto 2013 to explore ideas of how to define a Gold Standard for business under a vision for...
View ArticleTom’s of Maine Sustainability Report: Zero-Waste-to-Landfill Aim for 2020
Tom’s of Maine is aiming to send zero waste to landfill per ton of product made at its Maine manufacturing site by 2020, according to its newly launched “Goodness Report” web site. The site, a de facto...
View ArticleGNP Chicken Plant Reuses One-Third of Water
GNP Company’s chicken processing plant in Minnesota captures and reuses about one-third of its daily water use using membrane bioreactor technology in its water treatment facility. The MBR technology,...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Loan Program Stalls, ‘Absurd’ BP Claims
The cost to business of participating in the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program and Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program outweigh the benefits, according to a Government...
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