Veolia Achieves Processor Status to Recycle Mercury-Bearing Lamps
Veolia Environmental Services North America, one of the largest waste services companies in the world, announced that its Port Washington, WI, facility achieved approved processor status for the Take...
View ArticleParis Air Show: Boeing, Airbus Debut Fuel-Efficient Jets
The 2013 Paris Air Show opened this week with a flurry of announcements from Boeing and Airbus about their fuel-efficient planes, the Airbus A350 and Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the first commercial jets...
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: CITGO, RJD Green, Pentair, DriveCam
CITGO Petroleum Corporation: The gasoline company named Dr. Nelson P. Martínez (pictured) as president and CEO. Additionally, Martínez had been appointed as chairman and member of the board of...
View ArticleWhat’s More Fun than Oil Drilling? Playing Computer Games.
As oil and gas companies struggle to find skilled workers, two Illinois colleges have launched new training programs in the field of oil and gas drilling — and at least one company, Maersk, has turned...
View ArticlePratt & Whitney Commits to Zero Waste by 2025
Pratt & Whitney says it will have zero waste — 100 percent recycled — in its factories and reduce its greenhouse gases and water consumption 80 percent, compared to 2000 levels, by 2025. The...
View ArticleFinding the Balance between ‘Green’ and ‘Gray’
“We live in a world of polarity — day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance.” –Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elder and Ajq’ij of the Eagle Clan...
View ArticleAlt Fuel Cars Alone Offer ‘No Compelling Climate Advantages’
Alternative fuel vehicles alone can’t control global warming and policymakers should turn their focus to cutting emissions in other energy sectors, a study from University of Michigan’s Energy...
View ArticleHow to Decode Resin Recycling
In the American Society for Testing Materials plastics committee’s work to revise the resin identification code (RIC) standard — ASTM D7611 — it has changed the graphic marking symbol used to identify...
View ArticleWeb Tool Identifies Commercial Building Products Recycling Options
Construction Specialties and Earth911.com have launched a web tool designed to help customers locate facilities that recycle commercial building products. The C/S Recycling Locator, which debuted at...
View ArticleFrito-Lay Builds Public CNG Fueling Stations
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay has opened its first compressed natural gas fueling station in Beloit, Wis., and announced that it will break ground on seven public CNG fueling stations across the US by the end of...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Highest LEED Score, ISO 14001, CarboNZero
The US Green Building Council declared that The Change Initiative’s 4,000 sq m Dubai store has achieved the world’s highest LEED Platinum score. The building scored 107 out of 110 possible points,...
View ArticleLos Angeles Set to Ban Plastic Bags
Los Angeles is set to ban plastic grocery bags, making it the largest US city to prohibit single-use plastic bags at supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience stores and retail chains that sell food such...
View ArticleWendy’s, White Castle Demand Renewable Fuel Standard Repeal
Fast food chains White Castle and Wendy’s today will lobby Capitol Hill to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard on the grounds that fuel produced from soy, corn and other agricultural crops drives up...
View ArticleDeath to Polluters: China’s New Threat
China has given its courts the power to hand down the death penalty in pollution cases. Should US companies be worried? On the one hand, China applies the death penalty with alacrity. Human rights...
View Article3% GHG Reduction ‘Could Save Firms $780 Billion’
If US businesses act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 3 percent annually, they can save up to $190 billion in 2020 alone, or $780 billion over 10 years, according to a report by...
View ArticleUS Tax Code Is ‘Poor GHG Reduction Tool’
Current federal tax provisions have minimal net effect on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a National Research Council report published today. The report found that several existing tax subsidies...
View ArticleMaine Bill Could Create Paint Product Stewardship Recycling Program
The Maine Legislature enacted a bill to create an industry-run collection and recycling program for leftover household paint. If allowed to become law by Governor Paul LePage, the bill (LD 1308) would...
View ArticleEIU: US Needs More Coherent Building Efficiency Codes
Tackling rising energy consumption in US buildings will require a more coordinated and coherent approach to energy efficiency codes and regulation, one that is more focused on retrofits – where most...
View ArticleIntegrated Reporting Making Progress, Needs to Catch Up
Companies have a long way to go before the reality of integrated reporting catches up with the ambition, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey of the current reporting by large companies...
View ArticleSiemens, USEI, POET-DSM Launch Biofuels Projects
US Energy Initiatives Corporation, Siemens and POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels have all launched major biofuels projects. USEI and Promethean Biofuels have signed a biodiesel production agreement whereby...
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