Standards & Compliance Briefing: GM, Net Zero Energy, Arctic Climate
General Motors’ Rosario Automotive Complex is the first GM plant in the Americas, and the fifth globally, to obtain 50001 certification from the ISO. To obtain the certification, GM Argentina trained...
View ArticleGreen Product Growth Outpaced Others During Recession
A majority of small businesses found sales of green products increased and outpaced traditional alternatives during the recession, a survey from Green America, EcoVentures International and...
View ArticleThe Era of the Hydraulic Hybrid Truck
In heavy stop-and-go delivery and refuse collection routes, drivers are likely to brake hundreds of times each day. The act of braking is now the catalyst for making vehicles go and being...
View ArticleContract Wins: GE, Fuel Tech, Ametek, Leyden, Concurrent Technologies
Sunshine Oilsands has selected GE’s produced water evaporation technology for its steam-assisted gravity drainage West Ells project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The West Ells site will eventually...
View ArticleRGGI Carbon Price Rises 15%
The 20th carbon emissions allowance auction conducted by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) for 9 participating northeastern and mid-Atlantic states was sold out of all 38.7 million...
View ArticleDo Hybrids Save Money? Depends How You Drive
Vehicle window stickers, fuel economy standards and even life cycle studies offer incomplete efficiency estimates for vehicles because they often fail to account for driving conditions, a Carnegie...
View ArticleBeyond Energy Companies: Who are the Big Emitters?
Not surprisingly, the Greenhouse 100 index of the nation’s top greenhouse gas emitters – released yesterday by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – is...
View ArticleAmerican Electric Power Tops US Industrial Polluters Index
American Electric Power, Duke Energy and Southern Company are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the Greenhouse 100 index, a new ranking of US polluters developed by...
View ArticleTrain Operator Installs TTG Energymiser
New Zealand national rail operator KiwiRail is installing TTG Transportation Technology’s Energymiser Driver Advisory System in a bid to cut energy consumption and environmental emissions, while...
View ArticleClean Diesel Cuts Fuel Usage 10.7%
The city of Dublin, Ohio, has reported significant cost savings and emissions reductions following a change to high performance clean diesel (HPCD) in 2012. EcoChem Alternative Fuels supplies the HPCD...
View ArticleBarclays, MSCI Launch ESG Indices
Financial services providers Barclays and MSCI have released three categories of environmental, social & governance (ESG) fixed income indices, which the companies say are the first fixed income...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Fed’s Carbon Cost, Farm Bill, TSCA
The White House has sharply increased the internal cost it places on carbon, a move that could significantly affect future decisions on policy decisions from the Keystone XL pipeline to power plant...
View ArticleSuccessful Sustainability Strategy Leans on Innovation, ‘Gamification’
To survive and prosper in a rapidly shifting business landscape, companies must constantly evolve. One example of this evolution is seen when forward thinking leaders incorporate sustainability into...
View ArticleMarks & Spencer Sustainability Report: Beats Water Goal, Delays Transport Target
Marks & Spencer has beaten its target of a 25 percent cut in water use by 2015, reducing its store, office and warehouse water use by 27 percent, from 67 liters per sq ft in 2006/7 to 49 in...
View ArticleEU Carbon Market Surplus Squeezing Climate Goals
A surplus of Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) carbon permits will require the European Union to cut emissions by an extra 7 percentage points to meet its 2030 climate goals, according to a report by...
View ArticleCash Doesn’t Follow Sustainability Commitments
Large US corporations’ spending on energy, environmental and sustainability initiatives will grow at just 5 percent per year until 2017, from $34.6 billion in 2012 to $43.6 billion in 2017, according...
View ArticleFeel-Good Brands ‘Outperform Stock Market’
A new analysis has joined the ranks of studies suggesting that companies’ environmental efforts boost their bottom line. The evidence is far from conclusive, however. Companies considered so-called...
View ArticleGoogle, Samsung Top Meaningful Brand Index
Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Nestle and Sony are the five most meaningful brands of 2013, according to an index gauging brand strength released by Havas Media Group. Ikea, Dove, Nike, Walmart, Danone,...
View ArticleLow Carbon the Future of Indian Industry
May 2013 saw carbon dioxide crossing the 400 ppm mark in the Earth’s atmosphere and over the last decade we have witnessed a frequency increase in climate change induced natural disasters. The Indian...
View ArticleAquatech High Efficiency Evaporation Treats Oils Sands Produced Water
Water purification technology company Aquatech has launched a high efficiency evaporation process — HEVAP — for treating produced water from oil sands thermal processes such as steam assisted gravity...
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