Panama Canal Project Won’t Cut Carbon, Study Finds
While larger vessel sizes carrying cargo through an expanded Panama Canal could reduce CO2 emissions as much as 23 percent, other factors such as increased voyage distance and waterborne emissions...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Ontario FIT Ruled Protectionist, Calif....
Ontario’s feed-in tariff program, which pays above-market rates to generators of renewable energy that use Canadian-made equipment, undermines competition because it favors domestic products, a WTO...
View ArticleTen Firms to Watch in 2013
Alternative fuels firm Beta Renewables, carbon fiber recyling company Materials Innovation Technologies and oil exploration firm N-Solv have been named as three of Lux Research’s 10 companies to watch...
View ArticleSustainability ‘at a Tipping Point’ in Canada
Canadian businesses and policymakers are reaching a decisive point in their relationship with the green economy and the accountancy profession will play critical role in ensuring the outcome won’t harm...
View ArticleEdison Mix-Up Skews CARB Auction Demand
California sold all of the carbon permits in its first auction in part due to an administrative error by Edison International that caused the company to bid for twice as many allowances as were for...
View ArticleGlobal Energy Storage Projects Top 700
The total number of energy storage projects worldwide – including announced, funded, under construction, and operating facilities – reached 714 in the last quarter of 2012, according to a new tracker...
View ArticleClearEdge Power Acquires UTC Power
Fuel-cell maker ClearEdge Power of Hillsboro, Oregon, is buying UTC Power for an undisclosed sum. All 380 employees of UTC Power will transition to ClearEdge. Read more at Energy Manager Today.
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: IEEE Smart Grid, Toshiba and ISO 14001, ISO...
Four new updates to IEEE’s wireless communications technologies 802 family of standards are expected to improve the implementation of advanced metering infrastructure and communications network...
View ArticleAGL Sustainability Report: 13% Drop in Electricity CO2 Intensity
The greenhouse gas intensity of Australian energy company AGL’s operated electricity generation assets decreased 13 percent compared to financial year 2011 levels, to 0.31 tCO2e per MWh, according to...
View ArticleSafeway Requires All Cage-Free Eggs to be Certified Humane
Safeway, the second-largest US grocery chain, announced it has become the first major national retailer to require all of its organic and cage-free egg suppliers be “certified humane” by the nonprofit...
View ArticleMost Read Environmental Reporting & Finance Stories of 2012
Every day this week we’re looking at different aspects of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed your attention this year. Today we’re looking at two...
View ArticleMost Read Energy Management Stories of 2012
Every day this week we’re looking at different aspects of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed your attention this year. Today we’re looking at two...
View ArticleLG Signs 50% GHG Reduction Pledge with EPA
LG Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding with the EPA to formalize its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for its US operations 50 percent by 2020, compared with a 2007 baseline,...
View ArticleEPA Chief Jackson Steps Down
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday she would step down from the post after a four-year tenure marked by battles with industry groups opposed to her proposed environmental regulations....
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Illegal Waste Export, E. Coli Limits, EPA 2012...
Executive Recycling, formerly of Englewood, Co., and two of its top executives were convicted of criminal charges for illegal export of hazardous waste, smuggling, obstruction of justice, and wire and...
View ArticleElectro Chemical Activation: Giving Green Cleaning A Jolt
It sounds too good to be true – technology that can produce highly effective, non-toxic cleaners and disinfectants using only tap water, salt, and electricity? For less than a penny per gallon?...
View ArticleCalif. to Auction Fewer Carbon Allowances
California’s next carbon auction, on February 19, will offer 12,924,822 current vintage allowances – a little over half as many as were offered in the last auction in November – with a reserve price...
View ArticlePipeline Detection Systems Flawed, Study Says
The general public and emergency responders identified oil and gas spills far more often than computerized detection systems used by pipeline companies, according to a draft report commissioned by the...
View ArticleKey Stretch of Mississippi Could Shut This Week
Low water levels could shut down commerce on the Mississippi River this week, disrupting shipments worth billions of dollars, according to media reports. American Waterways Operators, an industry trade...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Perciasepe in Top EPA Spot, CARB Car Regs,...
With EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson stepping down in early 2013, the White House said that Robert Perciasepe, the agency’s deputy administrator, will take the top job in an acting capacity if no...
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