Cemex Launches Water Management Policy
Cemex has implemented a corporate water policy that it says outlines its global water management strategy and acts as a framework for the development of local water conservation and efficiency...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: RFS, EPA Bee Suit, McCarthy in China
The American Petroleum institute and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers filed a court brief on Monday accusing the EPA of ignoring a series of legal deadlines for the Renewable Fuel...
View ArticlePraxair Starts Up CO2 Purification Facility
Praxair has fired up its carbon dioxide purification facility at the Honeywell Resins & Chemicals site in Hopewell, Va. Under a long-term agreement, Praxair will purchase CO2 from Honeywell Resins...
View ArticleHow to Grow Packaging From Cotton Waste
A team of scientists with the Agricultural Research Service has developed agricultural waste blends that can be combined with fungi to literally grow custom packaging material. The biodegradable...
View ArticleSiemens Awarded Ballast Water Technology Patent
The US Patent Office has awarded Siemens Water Technologies a patent for a system and method to control biofouling of filters used as a first stage of treating ballast water in its SeaCure Ballast...
View Article5 Steps to a Sustainable Supply Chain
Trusting your partners, treating other businesses how you would wish to be treated and extending participation beyond the first tier of suppliers are just three of the five key steps to building a...
View ArticleJudges Tussle with EPA Air Pollution Rules
Supreme Court justices seem sympathetic to the EPA’s arguments in the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule case, which the court heard yesterday. Most of the eight judges hearing the case voiced some support...
View ArticleMonsanto, Novozymes Form BioAg Alliance
Monsanto and Novozymes have formed a long-term research and development alliance to commercialize microbial products intended to help farmers increase crop yields with less input. The firms say the...
View ArticleUL Sets Sustainability Requirements for Tablets, Wireless Hot Spots
UL Environment has released new sets of sustainability requirements for tablets and wireless hot spots. Both sets of requirements are based on its UL 110 standard, which was UL’s first collaborative...
View ArticleFood Security Raises the Obvious: Can We Feed 9.6 Billion by 2050?
World Population Day 2013 came and went with little fanfare this year. There were no organized efforts to draw attention to the annual United Nations observance, which underscores population issues....
View ArticleHow to Extend the Life of Products
Déjà vu all over again! My last few articles have been concentrating on effective utilization of resources and resource productivity as a driver for manufacturing (including green manufacturing)...
View ArticleInvista, CPI to Develop Gas-Based, Biotech Process
Invista, whose brands include Lycra, Coolmax and Stainmaster, has partnered with the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) to develop new technologies to enable gas-fermentation-based processes for the...
View ArticleNREL Wins SITES Sustainable Landscaping Certification
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s campus won a SITES certification for sustainable landscaping after participating in the Sustainable Sites Initiative’s pilot program. The...
View ArticleHow Firms Can ‘Measure What Matters’
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and the International Institute for Environment and...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Thermal Comfort, Hyundai, Nanoparticles
ASHRAE has published ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2013, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, which combines the 2010 standard and 18 published addenda into a consolidated standard. The core...
View ArticleDesalitech and Toyo Bring Water Treatment Asian Markets
Desalitech and Japan-based Toyo Engineering Corporation have formed a strategic partnership to introduce environmentally responsible and economical water and wastewater treatment systems to Japanese,...
View Article$4M Funding Available to Improve Port Air Quality
The EPA has made available $4 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions from marine and inland water ports. Most of the country’s busiest ports are located...
View ArticleHigg Index 2.0 Adds Web Interface, Improves Environmental Content
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), whose member including Adidas, Burberry, Coca-Cola and Levi’s represent more than a third of the global apparel and footwear market, has launched an updated...
View ArticleMedical RoHS: Get Your Database Ready
Medical device manufacturers will have to manage a huge dataset to comply with incoming RoHS regulations, as well as other rules and standards relative to their industry. Manufacturers of these...
View ArticleCoke Expands Hybrid Fleet
Coca-Cola is converting its 100 newly purchased 2014 Chevrolet Express service vans into fuel-efficient hybrid electric vehicles using XL Hybrids’ powertrain technology. The updated vans will be...
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