Waitrose Caves to Greenpeace, Puts Shell Deal On Ice
Waitrose has stalled plans to expand its partnership with Shell, in a victory for Greenpeace, which has been pressing the UK supermarket to abandon the partnership because of the oil company’s plans to...
View ArticleDoD Data Centers to Use Asetek Liquid-Cooling
Asetek has been selected to perform a $2 million project to retrofit a major Department of Defense data center with its direct-to-chip liquid-cooling technology. The product, called RackCDU (short for...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Steel ETS Permits, Quebec Cap-and-Trade, India...
The European Commission may give more free pollution allowances to the steel sector next year to counter the risk that the industry could be driven out of Europe. Though the cost of carbon on the EU...
View ArticleGreen Fleet Roundup: Ford, Westport, VW, Clean Diesel
Ford has unveiled its 2014 Transit van, which it says will achieve an average of 25 percent better fuel economy and haul at least 300 pounds more than today’s E-Series. The new Transit joins the most...
View ArticleHedging Climate Bets: Hurricane Sandy and Climate Adaptation
With environmental issues, crisis often spurs action. Nuclear safety was ramped up after Three Mile Island. Hazardous waste laws were strengthened after Love Canal. And oil transport laws were...
View ArticleThe North Face Sustainability Report: Normalized GHG Drops 1%
The North Face reduced its normalized greenhouse gas emissions by one percent year-on-year, but GHGs increased 1 percent over the company’s baseline year, according to the outdoor brand’s...
View ArticleAudi E-Gas Plant Uses CO2, Renewables to Make Fuel
Audi is building an industrial plant in Werlte, Germany, which will use renewable energy and carbon dioxide to make synthetic methane fuel. The plant will use power-to-gas technology to make so-called...
View ArticleRosebud Mining Facility to Clean Up PA River
A new wastewater treatment plant being built by Rosebud Mining Co. in St. Michael, Penn., is expected to eliminate a major source of acid mine drainage into the Little Conemaugh River. It’s the result...
View ArticleEPA Tightens Soot Pollution Standard
The EPA has toughened its air quality standards for fine particulate matter, or soot, released from automobile exhausts and power plants. The agency set the annual health standard at 12 micrograms per...
View ArticlePuma EP&L: Experts Weigh In
While Puma’s first-ever environmental profit and loss report accurately estimated the social cost of carbon, according to a panel of experts, the company could improve some other areas of its...
View ArticleNASA Flight Facility Reduces Energy Intensity 35%
Ameresco completed the first phase of a $28 million energy savings project with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia’s eastern shore. Read more at Energy...
View ArticleThe Path to Frac Water Reuse
Every water treatment company, mine included, has a basic selling example: a jar of dirty water sits next to a jar of clear water that has gone through the company’s cleaning process. It is the cost of...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: SmartWay, UL Refrigeration, Superior Energy...
Three Goodyear Commercial Tire Systems’ truck tire retread products – the G316 AT Fuel Max, the G572 LHD Fuel Max and the G305 ATS Fuel Max – have achieved verification under the EPA SmartWay Transport...
View ArticleFrackers Use GPS to Save on Compliance
Oil well fracking specialist Endeavor Energy is using the SageQuest GPS system to reduce its environmental compliance risk, the companies have announced. Without GPS fleet tracking most companies have...
View ArticleKKR Green Portfolio Avoids 1.2 Million MT GHGs
Independent car services provider ATU, discount retailer Dollar General, bedding maker Sealy Corp., US Foods and a dozen other companies participating in Kohlberg Kravis & Robert’s Green Portfolio...
View ArticleWoolworth’s Sustainability Report: CO2, Water Intensity Jump 9%, 22%
Australia-based retailer Woolworths’ carbon intensity increased 9 percent year-on-year following last year’s 8 percent decline, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. The company’s...
View ArticleEnvironmental Reporting More than Doubles
The number of S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies managing and reporting performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, according to an analysis...
View ArticleApple, Dell, HP ‘Better at Supply Chain Disclosure’
Apple, Dell and HP do a better job disclosing environmental issues in their supply chains than companies headquartered in Asia including Canon, Panasonic and Samsung, according to a report from...
View ArticleLead Found in Shopping Bags
Vibrant solid-colored shopping bags are at risk for containing high concentrations of lead in violation of state law, according to a report by the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse. The TPCH screened...
View ArticleWalmart Sustainability Strategy Taught to MBA Students
The Walmart Sustainability Case Project, an in-depth analysis of the retailer’s effort to develop and implement goals of creating zero waste, selling sustainable products and using 100 percent...
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