What the Sequester Means for Environmental Regulation
Since President Obama’s reelection, the Administration has made its intention to pursue a robust environmental regulatory agenda well known. With a host of environmental regulations, including GHG...
View ArticleWastewater Project Saves City $26 Million
Bernardin Lochmueller & Associates’ wetland treatment saved Washington, Ind., $26 million and cut projected annual operating costs by $1.6 million, according to the American Council of Engineering...
View ArticleSoftware Boosts Meridian’s GHG Reporting Productivity 50%
Meridian Energy has adopted a software platform to streamline its greenhouse gas reporting, a technology investment the company says will improve productivity 50 percent by cutting down the time to...
View ArticleEcolab, Ann Taylor Beat GHG Targets, Set New Enviro Goals
Ecolab and the parent company of Ann Taylor and Loft have both set new environmental targets after surpassing earlier carbon-reduction goals. Water and energy technology and services company Ecolab has...
View ArticleFracking Disclosure Site Contains ‘Serious Deficiencies’
There are “serious deficiencies” in the disclosure practices of FracFocus.org, a widely used website that allows companies to voluntarily disclose the chemicals they use in the process of natural gas...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Arch Coal Setback, Texas Water Case, $1bn...
The US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the EPA can revoke Arch Coal‘s permit for its Spruce No. 1 mountaintop mine in West Virginia, the Wall Street Journal reports. The US Army Corps of...
View ArticleMonsanto Investigates Mine Water System Leak
Monsanto is investigating the water treatment system at its phosphate mine in southeast Idaho after a holding pond leak dumped millions of gallons of water and sediment into a neighboring wetland. The...
View ArticleDuPont, Abbott Investors Vote on GMO Resolutions
DuPont shareholders today will vote on a resolution on genetically engineered seeds while Abbott Laboratories’ shareholders Friday will ask the company to remove GMOs from its infant formula and other...
View ArticleUSPS Promotes Buyback Program with Consumer Video, Earth Day Tie-in
The US Postal Service released a consumer video, as a tie-in with Earth Day, demonstrating how to recycle cell phones, MP3 players and tablets through the MaxBack electronics buyback program. The USPS...
View ArticleSurvey: Recycling, Energy-Saving Tech for Asphalt Pavements Increasingly...
About 66.7 million tons of reclaimed asphalt pavement and 1.2 million tons of reclaimed asphalt shingles were collected in the United States during 2011 for use in new pavements, according to a survey...
View ArticleGoogle’s Plan to Procure Renewable Energy
Google committed an additional $600 million investment in its Lenoir, NC data center site, and said its local electricity provider, Duke Energy, has pledged to develop a new program for large companies...
View ArticlePlant Extracts Produce ‘Green’ Nanoparticles
Green tea plants, sunflowers, coffee, fruit and peppers may replace potentially hazardous chemicals normally used in a host of products including textiles and clothing, scientists say. Extracts from...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Firms Upped Recycling 27% in 2012
Apple, Dell, HP and some 2,000 other consumer electronics companies increased the amount of electronics they recycled by about 27 percent last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association....
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: RoHS Testing, Tim Hortons’ First LEED
Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons has opened its first LEED-certified restaurant, in Hamilton, Ontario. Builders reused the site’s old parking surface as granular fill, and diverted 99 percent of...
View ArticleBuilding Info Modeling Adoption Surges
The adoption of building information modeling in North American construction industry has increased from 28 percent in 2007 to 71 percent in 2012, according to research by McGraw Hill. BIM is a digital...
View ArticleUS Ranks No. 1 Using Tax Code To Shape Corporate Sustainability
The US ranks No. 1 among 21 countries most actively using the tax code to influence sustainable corporate activity, reflecting the country’s federal tax incentives for energy efficiency, renewable...
View ArticleSustainability ‘Is A Journey’
Richard Perkins, food, agriculture and land use specialist at WWF UK, explains how sustainability is a journey.
View ArticleRSK Tool Helps Construction Companies Manage Environmental Risk
RSK Business Solutions has launched a web-based tool to help UK-based construction companies mitigate environmental risk, drive legal compliance and enhance their key performance indicator (KPI)...
View ArticleLaserShip Joins EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership
LaserShip has joined the EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership, a program that reduces transportation-related emissions by creating incentives to improve supply chain fuel efficiency. As part of the...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: GMO Bill, Ozone Agreement, Coal Slurry Danger
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced a bill Wednesday to require labeling for foods made with genetically modified organisms, Reuters reported. The bill has 31...
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