Bosch, Mitsubishi, GS Yuasa to Develop Li-ion Batteries
Bosch, Mitsubishi and GS Yuasa have agreed to work together to develop lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries. The companies plan to use advanced cell management and progress in electrochemistry and materials...
View ArticleBarrett Capital Bankrolls Co-op City Lighting Retrofit
After conducting an independent audit, Barrett Capital Corporation financed $2 million of a $3 million lighting retrofit at Co-op City, in the Bronx, NY. Co-op City is a cooperative housing development...
View ArticleCreative Convincing for Corporate Change: Tips from a Life-Sciences...
One of the biggest challenges sustainability champions face is how to convince executive leadership — and rank-and-file employees — to embrace company-wide changes for the benefit of both environmental...
View ArticleeRecyclingCorps Sets Device Collection Record
eRecyclingCorps, a wireless device trade-in provider that partners with Sprint, Verizon, TELUS and other major wireless carriers, says it exceeded 1.1 million trade-in devices in May, setting a new...
View ArticleFirstCarbon Solutions, CDP Expand Partnership
Environmental software firm FirstCarbon Solutions and CDP have expanded their partnership to increase services that measure supply chain carbon management and extend sustainability scoring to CDP’s...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: WindMade Debut, GHS, Prop.65, EPD
WindMade has launched the first global consumer label for products made with wind energy. The WindMade Product Label can be applied to all products using a minimum 75 percent renewable energy, with...
View ArticleClearSign Burner Technology Sets NOx Abatement Record
Air pollution control technology company ClearSign Combustion says it has measured and documented a further 40 percent reduction in emissions of nitrous oxides (NOx), now down to 3 parts per million...
View ArticleUK Clothing Industry Signs Green Commitment
Tesco, Marks & Spencer and the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are among the High Street retailers, charities, recyclers and other major players in the clothing...
View ArticleMillerCoors’ Brewery Goes Landfill-Free
MillerCoors’ Golden brewery is now landfill free, eliminating an average of 135 tons of waste monthly that was previously sent to landfill, the company says. In addition to the Golden, Colo. facility,...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Judge Smog Rule
Not all of today’s big policy news comes out of President Obama’s climate speech. The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, a major plank of Obama’s first-term...
View ArticleObama’s Climate Plan Sets Power Plant Emissions Limits
President Barack Obama’s climate plan will restrict carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants and boost investment in renewable energy, according to White House documents. The climate...
View ArticleEU Reaches Car Emissions Deal
The European Union reached a compromise deal late Monday that, if ratified, will slash carbon emissions from all new cars beginning in 2020. The deal would ensure all new cars manufactured in 2020 and...
View ArticleConstellation Customers Cut CO2 Emissions
Constellation’s commercial and industrial customers have reduced their CO2 emissions by about 75,432 metric tons (or 166,299,142 lbs.) over the past two years through the energy company’s Efficiency...
View ArticleEmpire State Building Exceeds Energy Efficiency Savings
The energy efficiency program at the Empire State Building has exceeded guaranteed energy savings for the second year in a row, saving $2.3 million, according to the team that developed the energy...
View ArticleCleantech by Any Other Name…
How relevant is the term cleantech today? Has it had its day in the sun? It’s a heretical question for someone who’s spent much of the last 10 years of his career furthering the cleantech meme...
View ArticleDreamliner Woes Continue With Brake Issues
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had to make an emergency landing on Sunday because of a brake system problem, which marks the third time this month that a Dreamliner airplane has run into problems, AFP...
View ArticleFedEx Fleet Adds 1,900 Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
FedEx Express has added 1,900 fuel-efficient vehicles to its fleet. The company says the new vehicles move it closer toward its goal to improve the fuel efficiency of its vehicle fleet 30 percent by...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Keystone Study, Ethanol Decision, Chemical...
The heavy bitumen crude that the Keystone XL pipeline would carry is no more likely to cause pipeline leaks than other crude oils, according to a National Research Council report released yesterday,...
View ArticleMIT Creates ‘Plug-and-Play’ CO2 Scrubber for Existing Power Plants
MIT researchers have invented a “plug-and-play” carbon dioxide scrubbing system that they say could be added relatively easily to any existing power plant, and uses less power than existing systems....
View ArticleHoneywell’s Low-Global-Warming Refrigerant ‘Safe for Use in Cars’
Honeywell says a study — and automakers including General Motors, Ford and Toyota — concluded that its low-global-warming-potential air conditioning system is safe for use in cars. The study by...
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