How to Prevent Another Flint Water Crisis
The Flint water crisis, resulting in potentially toxic levels of lead in the city’s water supply, shines a spotlight the devastating environment, health and safety ramifications of bad decision making...
View ArticleFlint Water Crisis Website Now Includes Interactive Map, Chlorine Sampling...
As the Flint water crisis continues, the EPA has released preliminary water quality data about chlorine levels in Flint’s drinking water, as well as an interactive map of sampling results in the...
View ArticleGreen Building Standard User’s Manual Offers Help to Engineers, Architects,...
A newly published user’s manual clarifies the intent and implementation of the building industry’s leading green building standard by explaining its requirements and providing example applications. The...
View ArticleIs Amazon Getting a Sustainability Makeover?
Amazon, which has never published a sustainability report, has recently hired sustainability executives that may change the online retail giant’s strategy — and reputation — according to the Guardian....
View ArticleWhat Plastics Makers are Doing to Increase Packaging Recycling, Recovery
Plastics recycling in the US is at an all-time high, according to two reports released today at the 2016 Plastics Recycling Conference. The 2014 National Postconsumer Non-Bottle Rigid Plastic Recycling...
View ArticleUL Acquires cr360, Creates Environment, Health, Safety Giant
Underwriters Laboratories has acquired environment, health and safety management and sustainability software company cr360 for an undisclosed price. The new business will be named UL EHS...
View ArticleWhy Best Buy Changed its E-Waste Recycling Program
Best Buy this week changed its in-store e-waste recycling program, charging customers $25 for each TV and computer monitor they recycle at its stores, because it is losing money on the program. “Our...
View ArticleVeolia Buys Kurion for $350M, Expands Nuclear Waste Cleanup Biz
Veolia, the Paris-based waste and water giant, has bought Kurion, a nuclear waste cleanup firm based in California, for $350 million. Kurion was involved in stabilizing Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticleImproved Sensor Capabilities Advance Air Quality Monitors
Particles Plus says its latest environmental sensors improve performance and accuracy of the company’s line of air quality monitors. The enhanced sensor for CO2 employs a non-dispersive infrared (NDIR)...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Waste Management: Flush, Take-Back Laws or Something Else?
How to best manage pharmaceutical waste has become a hot-button issue. In September the EPA proposed new Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals, which sets regulations on how...
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon Underestimate Data Centers’ Carbon Footprints
Google and Amazon are among the companies using an obsolete tool to calculate their data center emissions from the electricity they purchase from the power grid, according to Lux Research. The research...
View ArticleFollow These 8 Steps to Craft A Winning Environmental Awards Entry
Awards give validation to the work a company does, both to potential customers, existing clients, and partners, and to others within the organization. But what is the best way to show off your product...
View ArticleMATS Compliance Help for Power Plant Operators
Late last year a federal appeals court upheld the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. To help power plant operators comply with the Mercury and Air...
View ArticleOil Mist Filters for Continuous Operation
Nederman has introduced a new range of oil mist filtration products, called Nederman Filtac, based on its FibreDrain technology, designed for continuous operation. Oil mist and smoke, generated by...
View ArticleMeet the Technologies GE, Statoil Say Will Revolutionize Oil & Gas Water...
The latest technologies poised to reduce water usage in onshore oil and gas production, according to General Electric and Statoil, include a water treatment via a nano-sponge, ice crystals and an...
View ArticleClean Power Plan: Obama’s Team Confident About Pitch to Supreme Court
The Obama administration is asking the US Supreme Court to reject a request by 27 states to initially allow them to put off complying with the Clean Power Plan — a step toward eventually wiping out the...
View ArticleBayer Refuses EPA’s Request to Pull Pesticide in US
Bayer Crop Science says it has refused a request by the EPA to pull its Belt pesticide off the market in the US. The chemical company says the EPA is exaggerating the environmental risk posed by...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Waste Management Victory Goes to Geospatial Technology
Super Bowl 50 victory went to the Denver Broncos last night but the waste management winner was Trimble Geospatial Solutions, which provided the geospatial technology used to clean up illegal dumping...
View ArticleObama Proposes $10-Per-Barrel Oil Tax
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose a $10-per-barrel fee paid by oil companies to fund investments in low-carbon transportation. The oil tax, which would be phased in over five years, is...
View ArticleWhy We’re Seeing the Beginning of a Multi-Billion Dollar Ecosystem Marketplace
A little-noticed announcement by the US Department of Interior in late 2015 reflects an emerging paradigm shift in natural resource conservation — and the role market-based solutions will play as the...
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