Airline Industry Favors Global Carbon Offsets
The International Air Transport Association yesterday said the industry prefers a global carbon offsetting system that involves buying carbon credits rather than an industry-wide cap-and-trade system,...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Expands ‘Recycle & Win’ Program
Coca-Cola has invested over $250,000 in the Recycle & Win sustainability initiative which began in Charlotte, NC, in 2009. The program has been expanded into surrounding counties, with Harris...
View ArticleE-Waste Recycling Program in Wisconsin Exceeds Targets
Since Wisconsin launched a program for recycling electronic waste three years ago, the state has collected more than 100 million pounds of e-waste, exceeding targets by several million pounds,...
View ArticleConn. Energy Rules Spark Clash With Green Groups
Energy policies in Connecticut that are designed to promote multiple, competing sources of energy in a bid to drive down energy costs have set the Democratic administration and environmentalists – a...
View ArticleNatural Capital and Its Implications
Worldwide, “natural capital” has emerged as an important topic of debate. At the June 2012 Rio+20 Conference it was agreed that “inclusive green growth” was the pathway to sustainable development....
View ArticlePlastic Recyclers Address Full Wrap Shrink Label Contamination
The Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers, whose members represent more than 90 percent of the processors of postconsumer plastic bottles in the US, Canada and Mexico, have formed a group to...
View ArticleDuPont Launches Refrigerant Buyback Program
DuPont Refrigerants and EOS Climate have partnered to encourage the return of recovered chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants by paying contractors and equipment owners for the ozone-depleting...
View ArticleLogos Technologies Closer to Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Biofuel
Biofuel company Logos Technologies and partner Edeniq have completed more than 1,000 hours of continuous operation at their corn-to-cellulosic migration (CCM) pilot plant in Visalia, Calif., the...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell, BP in Price Probe; Feds ‘Shielded’ Wind...
European Commission antitrust regulators are investigating Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Statoil and price reporting company Platts – a subsidiary of McGraw Hill Financial – over potential oil price...
View ArticleUK Low-Carbon Small Businesses Report Exports Boon
The proportion of UK-based small businesses targeting the growing international market for low-carbon products has doubled in the past two years, according to research by Shell Springboard and UK...
View ArticleMonsanto, State Department Pushed GMO Seeds Abroad, Report Says
A report from watchdog group Food & Water Watch released yesterday accuses the US State Department of partnering with Monsanto and other GMO seed companies to push biotech crops abroad, forcing...
View ArticleCotton Offers Green, Low Cost Way to Clean Oil Spills, Study Finds
Unprocessed raw cotton may be an ecologically friendly, lower cost solution to clean up oil spills, according to a report published in the American Chemical Society journal Industrial & Engineering...
View ArticleVolvo Hybrid Buses Cut Fuel Consumption 75%
Volvo Buses’ plug-in hybrid buses — which the company says reduce fuel consumption by at least 75 percent compared with diesel buses — will hit the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden this month as part of a...
View ArticlePortland Struggles with Trash in Recycling Bins since Decrease in Garbage...
Portland, Ore., city officials are offering citizens upgrades to larger trash containers in order to help them adjust to the every-other-week garbage pick-up that was implemented a year-and-a-half ago....
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows for Solar: Ted Turner, Southern Co.
CNN Television network founder and environmentalist Ted Turner has partnered with Southern Co., the second largest utility company in the US, to build huge solar farms in southwestern states like...
View ArticleTeijin Device Reduces Ships’ NOx Emissions
Teijin Engineering has developed a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) denitration device for midsized ship engines to ensure compliance with the Tier III nitrogen oxides emissions regulation, which...
View ArticleClimate-Change Related Weather Pounds Insurers
The US insurance industry expects climate-change related storms and weather occurrences to worsen — but isn’t doing much to combat global warming, the New York Times reports. Peter Höppe, who heads Geo...
View ArticleContract Wins: Ball, Lockheed Marin, John Deere, Schneider Electric, Xylem,...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the National...
View ArticleGSi, Ecometrica Monitor Global Carbon Changes
Environmental accounting software developer Ecometrica has partnered with Global Surface Intelligence to launch GSi’s global forest monitoring service that the companies say will allow investors and...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Green Packaging?
This question was recently asked of me by an author friend in need of an “industry insider” perspective. He did not realize just how relatively narrow my view point is of an extremely broad industry...
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