NSF International Acquires Bioensaios
NSF International has acquired Bioensaios Analysis and Environmental Consulting Laboratory for an undisclosed price. The Porto Alegre, Brazil-based company will become known as NSF Bioensaios, the...
View ArticleCo-ops: the Future of Sustainable Business?
Cooperatives are often seen as being green-minded, but are they really more sustainable than businesses with more traditional set-ups? The days a of a small hippie-run cooperative grocery store as the...
View ArticleLast Vegas Strip Cleans Up Waste Management Act
MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Las Vegas Sands Corp. are among the Las Vegas resort operators working to cut waste and boost recycling, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Waste...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Ontario Ditches Coal, Wind Farm Guilty in Bird...
Ontario’s last coal-burning power plant is due to close in the next year, and premier Kathleen Wynne plans this week to introduce a bill, the Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act, to ban coal in the...
View ArticleCalifornia Carbon Auction Raises $297 Million
California companies paid about $297 million to release carbon emissions at the state’s most recent cap-and-trade auction, according to data published Friday. The state’s fifth auction on Nov. 19 sold...
View ArticleFinancial Decision Makers Need Climate Information to Manage Risks
Maximizing returns on financial investments depends on understanding and accounting for weather and climate risks, according to a study by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Policy Program. The...
View ArticleCarbon Standards Benefit From Filibuster Ban
Prospects for carbon standards for new and existing power plants are looking stronger after the Senate passed a ban on filibusters for federal judge and executive office appointments. That’s because...
View ArticleFisker Files Bankruptcy, DOE Loses $139M
Fisker Automotive has filed for bankruptcy protection and the Department of Energy sold its loan to a Hong Kong-based investor for $25 million, losing some $139 million in the deal. The DOE will have...
View ArticleClimate Treaty Deal Closer After UN Talks
After two weeks of talks, delegates hammered out a deal Friday that lays the groundwork for a universal legally binding treaty to be adopted by 2015 that will cut greenhouse gas emissions globally....
View ArticleStaples Launches Online Ink and Toner Recycling
Staples has launched an online ink and toner recycling program, an expansion of the existing in-store program, the company says. The online program enables Staples Rewards members to recycle empty ink...
View ArticleEPA Rules Force Lead Smelter Closure
Lead producer Doe Run is closing its lead smelting plant in Herculaneum, Mo. — the last primary lead smelter in the US — because of EPA regulations, Pollution Engineering reports. Primary smelters...
View ArticleNYC Restaurants Divert 2,500 Tons of Food Waste
New York City restaurants have diverted more than 2,500 tons of food waste from landfills in the past six months, the Associated Press reports. The food from 100 restaurants participating in the city’s...
View ArticleGuide Helps Businesses Become More Resource Efficient
LRS Consultancy and UK law firm Burges Salmon have published a guide to give businesses practical guidance on how to become more resource efficient. A Practical Path to Resource Efficiency is aimed at...
View ArticleConsumers Doubt Manufacturers’ Environmental Commitments
Some 61 percent of manufacturers say products’ environmental impacts are more important than the impact to human health while 61 percent of consumers say human heath impacts are more important,...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Rainwater Catchment, EPDs, Canola Oil and...
The American National Standards Institute has approved ARCSA/ASPE/ANSI 63-2013: Rainwater Catchment Systems, which revises a standard originally published in 2007. The standard is designed to help...
View ArticleFlame Retardants Out of California Furniture
Flammability standards for upholstered furniture in California, approved by Gov. Jerry Brown last week, will curb toxic chemicals found in furniture from high chairs to sofas, Brown says. Beginning...
View ArticleFirms Save Time, Money on Sustainability Reporting with Measurabl Software
Measurabl, a software startup for sustainability reporting formerly called GreenBox, is piloting the enterprise version of its software with firms including VMware, Clarion Partners and Gables...
View ArticleOntario Behind Schedule – but Coal Closures Still Impress
Ontario’s near-elimination of coal-fired power plants is an unprecedented achievement in North America – though not one before its time. Former premier Dalton McGuinty promised in his 2003 electoral...
View ArticleFirst Office Building Certified Under LEED v4 Operations and Maintenance
The office building at 1800 K St. in Washington, DC, is the first building in the world to earn certification through the LEED v4 Operations and Maintenance: Existing Building rating system. The...
View ArticleWaste Management Energy Production Rivals Solar Industry
By utilizing various methods for creating energy from refuse, Waste Management generates almost as much energy as the nation’s entire solar industry, The Motley Fool reports. Waste Management generates...
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