How Shale Gas Firms Could Cut Water Costs
Shale gas companies could benefit financially and cut water use by collaborating with regulators and sharing infrastructure with other operators working in the same drilling basin, according to a...
View ArticleMost Read Sustainable Business Stories of 2012
At the dawn of a new year, we’ve been looking at different aspects of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed your attention in 2012. Today we look at...
View ArticleNY State Buildings Must Increase Energy Efficiency 20%
Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an Executive Order directing state agencies to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent in seven years. Cuomo also launched Build Smart NY, which will use...
View ArticleCintas Sustainability Report: Energy Use From Laundry Halved
Uniform manufacturer and business-to-business service provider Cintas has halved the amount of energy used in its laundry process, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. Innovations...
View ArticleWake Forest Scientists Working On FIPEL Lighting
Ever walk into a convenience store and notice the bright, flickering, harsh lighting and buzzing noise created by those lights above your head? Everyone knows what I’m referring to – fluorescent bulbs....
View ArticleGreen Fleet Briefing: IBM’s B2B Marketplace, Ford Fusion Energi, Volt Dropped
IBM has launched B2B Marketplace, a project it hopes will allow energy providers, car manufacturers, and charging point owners to share and integrate services on one common IT platform. This will...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Calif. Offsets, CDM Approval for Seeds, EPA...
SCS Global Services has earned accreditation from the California Air Resources Board to provide verification services for carbon offset projects under the state’s new cap-and-trade Program. SCS has...
View ArticleChargePoint, DBT ‘Leaders’ in EV Equipment
ChargePoint (formerly Coulomb Technologies) and DBT lead the electric vehicle supply equipment market, according to a Pike Research report. Pike Pulse Report: Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment says...
View ArticleSeattle Pushes Fossil Fuel Divestment
The city of Seattle will not invest its cash balances in fossil fuel companies and is taking additional steps to divest employee-deferred compensation funds and pressure its pension fund system to pull...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Turns Christmas Cards into FSC Cash
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s has opened Christmas card recycling stations at 500 stores, and is making donations to the Forest Stewardship Council for each card collected. Customers can bring their cards...
View ArticleTown Bans Bottled Water
Concord, Mass. has made illegal the sale of single-serving plastic water bottles under a new law that will fine stores up to $50 for violating the ban. As of January 1, it is unlawful in Concord to...
View ArticleToyota Leads Clean Energy Patent Growth Index
The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a record 798 clean energy patents in the third quarter of 2012, which saw Toyota receive the highest number of clean energy patents for the third consecutive...
View ArticlePower Firms ‘Spending $4.8bn on Water Chemicals in 2013′
Electric utility power generators will spend more than $4.8 billion for water and wastewater treatment chemicals in 2013, according to a report published by the McIlvaine Company. Water and Wastewater...
View ArticleClean Harbors Buys Safety-Kleen
Clean Harbors Inc., a provider of environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America, has acquired Safety-Kleen Inc., a provider of parts cleaning and environmental services and the...
View ArticleReport Questions Styrene Carcinogen Designation
Studies in humans, and particularly workers with high exposure to styrene products, show that the material is not associated with a consistent increase in death from any type of cancer, contradicting...
View ArticleCorporate Sustainability Plans ‘Almost Double Year-on-Year’
In 2012, 64 percent of US companies said they had a sustainability plan in place or were in the midst of drafting one, up from 38 percent in 2011, according to research by hygiene and paper company...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Transocean $1.4bn Fine; Exxon Delay ‘Made...
Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties, admitting its criminal conduct in...
View ArticleStarbucks Sells $1 Reusable Cups
Starbucks began selling $1 reusable cups to customers at all of its North American stores yesterday, in an effort to curb waste. The white plastic cup with the green Starbucks logo looks like the...
View ArticleCoal Plants Drag Heels on Emissions Cuts
Emissions increased or showed little change at seven of the 10 worst mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants in 2011, compared to 2010, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project....
View ArticleApple Patents Wind Energy Storage
Apple plans to develop a wind turbine that generates electricity from stored wind energy. The tech giant has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that proposes electricity...
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