IHS Buys Regulatory Management Business for $11m
Information and analysis firm IHS has purchased online regulatory compliance business CyberRegs from Citation Technologies for about $11 million. CyberRegs, an online source of current full-text...
View ArticleCBS Gains 2.4 MW with 6 UTC Fuel Cell Systems
CBS Studios will install six PureCell stationary fuel cell systems with a total capacity of 2.4 MW at two production locations in California, according to fuel cell maker UTC Power. The PureCell...
View ArticleDOE Study Confirms LEDs Most ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Lighting
LED lamps have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps and a significantly lower environmental impact than incandescent lighting over the lifetime of the products, according to a...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: EPA WaterSense, WWF Check Your Paper, LEED...
Rain Bird’s SST Weather-Based Smart Irrigation Controller has earned the EPA’s WaterSense label for verified water savings for lawn and garden use. The controller has a weather sensor with a built-in...
View ArticleGlobalData Forecasts Increasingly Volatile Carbon Market
The price of carbon credits traded in regional and national emissions markets worldwide will become increasingly volatile and difficult to accurately forecast through 2015, according to a report by...
View ArticleStorms Shut Down Amazon Cloud Service, Chicago’s Midway Airport
Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram were among the millions of businesses and people without power over the weekend as a series of deadly storms moved across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Lightning in...
View ArticleStarbucks, Utilities Test Behavior-Based Energy Savings Program
The Bonneville Power Administration has partnered with three Northwest public utilities to test the effectiveness of behavior-based energy efficiency programs. The Snohomish County Public Utility...
View ArticleSABMiller Sustainability Report: Water Use Down 5%, CO2 Falls 10%
SABMiller, a brewing company with more than 200 beer brands including Miller Genuine Draft, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Grolsch, reduced its water consumption and carbon emissions per...
View ArticleLime Energy Saves PA County $300k in Energy Costs
Lime Energy has completed a large-scale energy retrofit project expected to save 75 municipality-owned facilities in Allegheny County, Pa., more than $300,000 in annual energy costs. In addition, the...
View ArticleCommunicating Sustainability Commitments, Progress
Lee Broughton of Enterprise Holdings and Becky Vollmer of Fleishman-Hillard discuss best practices in communicating your sustainability commitments and progress, engaging third parties and telling your...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell-BASF Compensation Fund, Navy Biofuel,...
Local subsidiaries of Shell and BASF in Brazil have been ordered to pay $382 million into a compensation fund that would cover costs for about 1,000 workers who allege they were contaminated and...
View ArticleSustainable Practices Make Sense (Even if Customers Don’t Care)
Chipotle is a restaurant chain that does extremely well serving fresh food fast. I was going to call it fast food, but that seems a bit denigrating to what Chipotle offers. Writer Tom Roston went so...
View ArticleEnergy from Waste Boom
There is currently an accelerated development of affordable, clean and secure Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities to help the UK meet its legally binding 2050 climate change targets. The value of the...
View ArticleSears Teams Up With CloudApps to Track Carbon Footprint
Sears Canada will use CloudApps’ sustainability performance management software to capture carbon, energy and waste data from the retailer’s 122 department stores, 48 home stores and 11 outlet...
View ArticleFedEx Express to Purchase 19 Boeing 767s, Improve Fuel Efficiency 30%
FedEx Express has agreed to purchase 19 additional B767-300 aircraft from the Boeing Company. The 767s are about 30 percent more fuel-efficient compared to the MD10s that they will replace, and should...
View ArticleEPA Maintains GHG Thresholds, Focus on Larger Polluters
The EPA will maintain greenhouse gas thresholds that target the nation’s largest emitters, which account for nearly 70 percent of pollution from stationary sources. The final rule will shield smaller...
View ArticleEnergy Star, Google and Facebook will Help to Boost Wireless Power to $15.6bn...
The market for wireless power systems – encompassing mobile devices, consumer electronics, industrial applications, infrastructure devices and electric vehicles – will triple over the next eight years,...
View ArticleConsultants and Software Firms Can’t Help Us, Energy Managers Say
Fewer than 20 percent of energy managers believe consultants, software firms, technology services providers and automation and controls suppliers have strong capabilities to help improve energy...
View ArticleEQT Converts Shale Gas Drilling Rigs to LNG
EQT Corporation has launched a pilot program to begin converting shale gas drilling rigs from diesel to liquefied natural gas. LNG is about 40 percent less expensive than diesel, and emits between 20...
View ArticleAquatech to Supply Fertilizer Plant with Wastewater Recycling
Wastewater recycler Aquatech has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and installation supervision of a concentrated brine treatment plant at the Chinacoal Tuke Fertilizer...
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