Utility Regulators Refereeing Fierce Boxing Matches Over Rooftop Solar Energy
When California’s utility regulators kept a plan in place to pay rooftop solar owners the retail rate for the electricity that they return to their providers, those refs may have triggered a national...
View ArticleWater Planet, Genesys Partner to Supply RO Membrane Cleaning Chemicals
Genesys International has selected Water Planet, a supplier of membrane-based water treatment products, as the US distributor for its line of reverse osmosis membrane anti-scalant and cleaning...
View ArticleFord Sends Zero Waste to Landfill at NA Headquarter Facilities
Ford’s North American headquarter facilities now send zero waste to landfill. The automarker says the facilities — located in Dearborn, Michigan, Oakville, Ontario, and Santa Fe, Mexico — divert more...
View ArticleTetra Pak Launches 100% Renewable Carton Packaging in US
Sustainable packaging company Tetra Pak says it has produced the first 100 percent renewable Gable Top package in the US: cartons developed from a combination of paperboard and sugar cane derived...
View ArticleHow Smart Cities are Accelerating the Energy Transition
City leaders all over the world have embraced the smart city concept with enthusiasm. They are heralding innovative projects and laying out a vision for how cities can use technology to meet...
View ArticleWith a Focus Increasing Reliability and Decreasing Emissions, Microgrids are...
When the electricity goes out, the lights often turn on inside the minds of innovators. Enter the world of microgrids, which is becoming a harbinger of energy trends as more and more companies and...
View ArticleProduced Water Treatment Technology Combines Separation Equipment, Flocculent...
A pilot project to test produced water treatment technology is underway in the Middle East. Sorbwater Technology, a Norway-based company that has developed a technology to clean oil and other...
View ArticleObama’s Spending Plan Pumps $260M into Water Technology R&D
President Obama’s budget includes almost $260 million to fund a water innovation strategy, which the White House says will boost water sustainability and reduce the price and energy costs of new water...
View ArticleSupreme Court Blocks Clean Power Plan
The US Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major blow to President Obama’s climate change policy by temporarily halting the implementation of the Clean Power Plan while an appeals court considers a...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Largest Recycler Shutters 191 Recycling Centers
California’s largest recycler, rePlanet, has closed more than one-third of its recycling centers throughout the state and laid off about 25 percent of its employees because of falling commodities...
View ArticleVeolia, Partners Create ‘First’ Recycling Loop for Small Appliances
Veolia and its partners have created a recycling loop for small appliances — France’s first complete circular economy for small appliances, the companies say. The e-waste collected by Eco-systèmes is...
View ArticleSiemens BY Selects LLamasoft for Supply Chain Design
Siemens Building Technologies Division has chosen LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru as its standard supply chain modeling platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Siemens BT is a technology partner for...
View ArticleCalifornia Leads on Reducing Methane Emissions from Oil & Gas Operations
California took a big step forward to reduce emissions of potent, heat-trapping methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. Joining states like Wyoming, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, California is...
View ArticleScrapRight Launches Recycling, Compliance Software
ScrapRight Software has launched cloud-based scrap and recycling software for scrap yards and recycling centers that allows them to perform ticketing, gain state and local compliance, and run reports....
View ArticleScientists Say Climate Change Should Propel Nuclear Energy to Prominence
Nuclear energy’s resilience was never more apparent than during the COP21 climate talks in Paris. It was there that a famed environmentalist and the one who has cautioned against the effects of global...
View ArticleDoes the Aircraft Emissions Standard Fall Short?
The first-ever global emissions standard for commercial aircraft — years in the making — moved closer to takeoff this week as the United Nation’s aviation body proposed carbon pollution limits for...
View ArticleBP Chief Urges Global Carbon Price
BP chief executive Bob Dudley this week called on governments to adopt carbon pricing mechanisms to address climate change. “Carbon pricing incentivizes all aspects of the transition to a lower carbon...
View ArticleBest Way to Effect Change in Energy Markets: Markets or Government?
During last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Senator Bernie Sanders remarked that the reason climate change has not become an issue at least among many Republican candidates is that they are...
View ArticleSmart Utility Systems’ Next-Gen Platforms Drive Efficiency, Customer...
Smart Utility Systems, which provides cloud-based software-as-a-service platforms to the energy and utility sector, has launched new platforms that the company says improve efficiency, thus saving time...
View ArticleThe State of Green Business 2016
Last year, in the GreenBiz and Trucost 2015 State of Green Business report, we addressed an elephant in the room. We called it sustainable growth. At the time the trend was alarming. The largest 500...
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