Pepsi Beats Safe Water Access Goal, Doubles Commitment
PepsiCo has achieved its goal — almost three years early — of partnering to provide access to safe water to 3 million people in developing countries and has doubled its original commitment. The company...
View ArticleMandatory Benchmarking Not Worth the Cost, Study Says
Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino wants large commercial buildings in the city to benchmark their energy usage, but a report studying the effects of benchmarking finds that the costs outweigh the benefits....
View ArticleEPA to Review Flame Retardants
The EPA says it will assess 23 commonly used chemicals, with a specific focus on flame retardant chemicals, to ascertain any potential risks to people’s health and the environment. This effort is part...
View ArticleGreenWizard, International Living Future Institute Label Sustainable Building...
Green building software provider GreenWizard has partnered with environmental NGO the International Living Future Institute to promote a more sustainable and transparent built environment. Under the...
View Article15 Tips for Complying with the Conflict Minerals Provision of the Dodd Frank Act
The Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act came into effect on January 1 this year, and Section 1502 on Conflict Minerals requires compliance from all public companies that are...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuel Fraud, Exxon Spill, DuPont MOU
A US district judge sentenced Jeffrey Gunselman to nearly 16 years in federal prison, $54.9 million in restitution and $175,000 in fines, for defrauding the EPA with a fake biofuel business. Gunselman...
View ArticleAmericans Want Climate Change Preparation, Don’t Want to Pay for It
An overwhelming majority of Americans want to prepare to minimize likely damage caused by global warming-induced sea-level rise and storms, but most citizens want people whose properties and businesses...
View ArticleFacebook’s Green-Roofed ‘Hobbit Hole’ Gets Green Light
Facebook has received approval to build its green-roofed, Frank Gehry-designed second campus in Menlo Park, Calif. The Menlo Park City Council voted last week to allow the social network giant to move...
View ArticleUK Carbon Price a ‘Threat to Business Competitiveness’
Britain’s carbon-emitting businesses will pay more for energy than their European counterparts under the UK’s new carbon price floor, which goes into effect today. The emissions tax, set by the UK...
View ArticleEPA Finalizes Power Plant Pollution Standards
The EPA has finalized pollution limits for new power plants, setting emissions limits for mercury and toxic air pollutants like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium and cyanide. The Mercury and Air...
View ArticleGallup: Americans Want More Energy from Solar, Wind, Natural Gas
A Gallup poll conducted in March found 76 percent of Americans want more domestic energy from solar power, followed by wind (71 percent) and natural gas (65 percent). Only 46 percent of survey...
View ArticleCO2Meter.com Unveils Biogas Meter
CO2Meter.com, a provider of atmospheric gas measurement equipment, has developed a combination carbon dioxide and methane gas level meter for use in the biogas industry. It can measure up to 100...
View Article3m Hectares in Amazon Rainforest Open to Big Oil
Ecuador plans to auction off more than 3 million hectares of Amazonian rainforest to Chinese and other global oil companies, capping a four-nation tour last week to publicize the bidding contracts, The...
View ArticleEcolab Launches Toxic-Chemical Free Industrial Laundry Detergent
Ecolab has introduced an industrial laundry program that it says cleans heavily soiled textiles without using hazardous chemicals and can save industrial laundry customers as much as 3 million gallons...
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Ecodesk, EDF, PwC, LiqTech
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Ecodesk: The open data sustainability reporting platform has hired Nick Murry as chief sustainability officer....
View ArticleStandards & Compliance: ASHRAE 90.1 Overhaul, Utilities’ Water Meter Push
ASHRAE announced that 26 more proposed addenda to ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2010, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, are open for public comment. The 90.1...
View Article6 Reasons Your Sustainability Innovation Is Failing
For the last few weeks, I’ve been participating in Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations, a course by David A. Owens of Vanderbilt University. It’s a Coursera class, which means that it’s free...
View ArticleTorstar Sets Paper Policy, But No Ban on Controversial Fiber
Harlequin romance novels and Toronto Star parent company Torstar has adopted paper procurement principles that it says will eliminate the use of fiber from ancient and endangered forests — but it...
View ArticleP&G Achieves Zero Waste at 45 Sites
Procter & Gamble today announced that 45 of its facilities have achieved zero manufacturing waste to landfill. The consumer goods company has set a goal of sending zero waste to landfills by 2020....
View ArticleAs Demand for Recycled Cathode Ray Tubes Drops, Industry Groups Seek New Uses...
Over the coming years, more than two billion pounds, or a thousand tons, of legacy cathode ray tube (CRT) glass TVs and monitors are expected to enter the recycling stream. With that in mind, the...
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