DuPont’s 6 Corporate Water Stewardship Lessons
Corporate water stewardship efforts must look beyond a company’s fenceline and consider its operations in water-stressed areas, says DuPont’s Bob Reich, global environmental stewardship manager, in a...
View ArticleStates to Feds: Don’t Wreck States’ Chemical Rules with TSCA Reform
As the bill that will reform the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 moves closer to final passage, 12 state attorneys general are urging US lawmakers to protect states’ efforts to regulate toxic...
View ArticleIllinois Retains Top Position in LEED Top 10 List; Utah Makes 1st Appearance
Illinois has retained its top national position in the list of Top 10 States for LEED; a newcomer to the Top 10 list is Utah, while Texas, Washington and Nevada are back on the list after a three-year...
View ArticleWalmart, Coke, Nestle, Pepsi Support Flint Crisis with Water Donations
Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo will add their support to Flint, Michigan, by contributing about 176 truckloads of water to help people affected by the Flint drinking water crisis, including...
View ArticleHow to Better Manage Supply Chain Climate Risks
Supply chains are responsible for up to four times the greenhouse gas emissions of a company’s direct operations and yet half of major companies’ key suppliers don’t provide requested climate data to...
View ArticleMercedes Coupe, SUV Earn Best, Worst Environmental Vehicle Ranking
Mercedes-Benz manufactures the “greenest” and the “meanest” vehicles, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 19th annual environmental ratings for vehicles. This is...
View ArticleWhat Is Environmental Leadership?
What is environmental leadership? The answer would almost certainly vary over time and across audiences, but there are some common themes. In my view, environmental leadership can be described in five...
View ArticleStates, Industry Ask Supreme Court to Block Clean Power Plan
In another attempt to block the Clean Power Plan, 29 states and state agencies are urging the US Supreme Court to stop the carbon emissions rule for power plants from taking effect. The have been...
View ArticleCNG Hoses Feature Market-Leading Certifications, Reduced Delivery Times, Says...
Power management company Eaton has launched the high pressure 35NG hose and low pressure NG-TW hose for compressed natural gas (CNG) applications. Tested by TÜV Rheinland, the hoses are among the first...
View ArticleFood Waste from Golden Corral Restaurants Diverted from Landfill via BioHiTech
BioHiTech America is installing its commercial food waste disposal system at Golden Corral restaurants in 10 franchised locations throughout Florida, in a move the company says will divert food waste...
View ArticleCheap Oil’s Biggest Losers
Crude oil, which closed at about $32 a barrel yesterday, now costs less than a drum to transport it. A video from The Independent says the drums cost about $99 each — three times as expensive as the...
View ArticleAddressing Climate Change At Origin
The adoption of The Paris Climate Agreement marks a pivotal moment in the history of addressing climate change. For the first time ever, 195 countries adopted a universal deal that places the world on...
View ArticleWaste Treatment Tech Produces Renewable Energy, Commercial Products
Livestock waste treatment technology provider Bion Environmental Technologies says it has modified its technology platform to enable the capture of ammonia and its conversion into commercial products,...
View ArticleEnvironmental Leader Q&A Podcast: How Did the Environment Fare in Congress...
Most people consider Congress to be hopelessly deadlocked. However, things do get done. At the end of last year, according Elizabeth Noll, a huge spending agreement was reached — and it contained a...
View ArticleCarbon Capture: First Waste-to-Energy CCS, CO2 Solutions Project Results
In carbon capture and storage news, Aker Solutions has announced a first-of-its-kind project to capture CO2 emissions from a waste-to-energy plant in Norway and CO2 Solutions has released the verified...
View ArticleWaters New ProteinWorks Digest Kits Address Challenges of Protein Bioanalysis
Waters Corporation has a new line of Waters ProteinWorks Digest Kits that simplify, accelerate and standardize the LC-MS quantification of proteins via the surrogate peptide approach. The company says...
View ArticleExxonMobile Steps Up Biodiesel Research with REG Agreement
ExxonMobil announced an agreement with Renewable Energy Group to study the production of biodiesel by fermenting renewable cellulosic sugars from non-food sources such as agricultural waste. Through...
View ArticleWhy Most Companies Don’t Link ESG Performance to Executive Pay
Linking executive pay to corporate environmental, social and governance performance isn’t a new idea but it’s been slow to gain traction. Some 75 percent of large US companies don’t explicitly link...
View ArticleThe State of EHS in 2016
Most environmental, health and safety professionals feel their department is understaffed and say it won’t be growing in 2016, according to Triumvirate Environmental’s first annual State of EH&S...
View ArticleWastewater Recycling Process Can Reduce Disposal Costs 98%
A vacuum distillation system by H2O GmbH has reduced the amount of wastewater produced and saved more than €100,000 ($108,280) annually for thermofin, a German metalworking company. Bernd Löffler,...
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