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Environmental Executive Moves: URS, EBI, Wilo, Recology

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. URS Corporation: The construction and environmental engineering firm has named Richard Reis (pictured) as a...

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Sainsbury’s Cut Water Use 50% Since 2005

Sainsbury’s has reduced its operational water use 50 percent relative across its stores, against a 2005-06 baseline, employing a number of measures including recycling, leak detection and rainwater...

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AB InBev Sustainability Report: Waste Down 55% in a Year

Anheuser-Busch InBev cut the amount of waste it sent to landfills by 54.8 percent year-on-year, from 104,946 metric tons in 2011 to 47,341 in 2012, according to its 2012 Global Citizenship Report. The...

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Hospitals Divert 100m Pounds From Landfill

The Healthier Hospitals Initiative kept more than 100 million pounds of waste out of landfills in its initial year, according to the program’s first progress report. The program’s 370 member hospitals...

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Rennovia Develops Bio-Based Nylon

Rennovia says it has developed a process to make a bio-based nylon material that will cost 20 to 25 percent less to produce and halve greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional petroleum-derived...

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CenterPoint Energy, PG&E, SDG&E Top Smart Grid Maturity Ranking

CenterPoint Energy, PG&E and SDG&E have topped a ranking of smart grid maturity in North America released by GTM Research. The three utilities each scored 4.2 on the average maturity scale, a...

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Lessons from China’s Emerging Sustainable Cities

Take a tour of China’s fast-growing megacities and you’re likely to come away astonished. Those of us who joined Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr.’s historic trade and investment delegation last week were...

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Coke, WaterAid Extend African Water Pipelines

Coca-Cola has partnered with WaterAid to provide safe drinking water to one of the poorest suburbs of Burkina Faso’s capital city, Ouagadougou, in western Africa, and in two rural communities in...

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Green Fleet Roundup: BYD, C40, Modern Transportation, Sainsbury’s, BAE

Modern Transportation has deployed freight service to the Owens Corning roofing plant in Savannah, Ga., using trucks powered solely by 12-liter natural gas-fueled engines. The high volume, dedicated...

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Veolia Predicts Toxic Waste Recycling Revenue Growth

Veolia Environnement expects revenue from its toxic waste recycling business to grow by 10 percent per year over the next four to five years and profit from these activities to grow by 15 percent per...

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Nike, NASA Launch Sustainable Materials Challenge

Nike, along with partners NASA, the US Agency for International Development and the US Department of State, have challenged materials manufacturers and others to create new, sustainable materials....

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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Pesticide Ban, Pebble Mine, Solar Glass Claims

The European Union has voted to impose a two-year ban on neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides linked to bee decline. The decision is a serious defeat for chemical companies, the Guardian says. The...

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Only 1.4% of S&P Companies Have Fully Integrated Reporting

American Electric Power, Clorox, Dow Chemical, Eaton, Ingersoll Rand, Pfizer and Southwest Airlines are the only companies in the S&P 500 — just 1.4 percent of the total — with fully integrated...

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SAP Debuts Carpool App

SAP today launched a cloud-based carpool app that has saved the software company more than $5 million internally in less than two years. TwoGo by SAP can help companies encourage employees to...

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Managing Lighting Costs: Five Often Ignored Tips for Further Energy Savings

Operational processes, regulation compliance, productivity, occupant comfort, sustainability efforts, and architectural aesthetics – the list of commercial facility manger needs is long and difficult...

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GSA Expands Hybrid Fleet ‘Up to 10,000 Vehicles’

The US General Services Administration says it will expand the number of hybrid vehicles in the federal fleet by up to 10,000 vehicles, resulting in the reduction of about 1 million gallons of fuel per...

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Canadian Supermarkets Ban Pig Gestation Cages

Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro, Loblaw, Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobeys and Co-op Atlantic — all eight of Canada’s largest supermarket chains — have pledged to eliminate the use...

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BT Cuts Supply Chain CO2 Footprint

UK communications company BT says it has cut its supply chain carbon dioxide impact by more than 30,000 metric tons over the last year. The company did not say what percentage of total CO2 emissions...

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Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED for Healthcare, ISO 14001, Vapor Intrusion

Group Health Cooperative’s medical office building in Puyallup, Wash., has become the first building in the nation to win LEED for Healthcare certification, USGBC says. The facility achieved Gold and...

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Contract Wins: LiqTech, Ecolab, Clean Air Power, Ceco Environmental

LiqTech has received an order for its silicon carbide membranes for public pool installations in the US valued at $500,000. Provital Solutions, based in Denmark, placed the order. The SiC membranes...

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