How Walmart, IBM, Change Waste Streams to Profit Streams
If the 5,589 largest publicly traded companies in the US reduced their paper waste by a mere 1 percent, it would save them nearly $1 billion in total, according to the US Chamber of Commerce...
View ArticleEPA May Force VW to Build Electric Cars in US
Volkswagen may have to build electric vehicles in the US to make up for installing illegal defeat devices in about 600,000 diesel engine cars that allowed them to cheat emissions standards. German...
View ArticleHuman Emissions Have Canceled the Next Ice Age. Why We Care
If we condensed Earth’s 4.6-billion year history into one calendar year, humans evolved in the very last hour of December 31 – and the Industrial Revolution and modern age occurred the last two seconds...
View ArticleBioHiTech Mobile App Taps Internet of Things to Improve Waste Management
BioHiTech America has launched a mobile app that the food waste management company says gives users improved accessibility and transparency to food waste creation and disposal. The BioHiTech Cirrus app...
View ArticleOil Well Treatment Increases Production, Reduces Bacteria
Integrated Environmental Technologies has developed an oil well treatment protocol that it says increases oil production and reduces hydrogen sulfide, iron sulfide scales, bacteria and bacterial...
View ArticleHow Big Data Is Changing Chemical Manufacturing
Big data and analytics can make chemical manufacturing more efficient, cutting the cost and time needed to bring a new product to market and improving the industry’s environmental impact, according to...
View Article‘First-of-Kind’ Plant Converts Desalination Wastewater into Freshwater
A commercial water plant located next to a desalination plant in Texas will convert wastewater from the desalination process into fresh drinking water, extracting contaminants and transforming them...
View ArticleDistributed Energy Catching On, Energy Rate Hikes Not as Dire, Survey Says
This article is sponsored by Ecova. Forty-three percent of energy, sustainability, facility and finance professionals are seeking to use energy data to increase financial efficiency and guide budgetary...
View ArticleIthaca College is Shooting for the Sun and Others are Aiming Just as High
Ithaca College said it would add 2.9 megawatts per hour of solar to power roughly 10 percent of its energy needs. The project is getting financed through a 25-year power-purchase agreement whereby the...
View ArticleUsing Sewage to Provide Buildings’ Heating, Cooling
Sewage: it’s the ultimate renewable energy source, says International Wastewater Systems (IWS) founder and CEO Lynn Mueller, who has commercialized a wastewater heat recovery process that captures heat...
View ArticleFord Joins Electronics Supply Chain Coalition, Pledges to Audit High-Risk...
Ford has joined the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition — a nonprofit group of electronics companies working to improve the social, environmental and ethical conditions of their global supply...
View ArticleDespite its High Cost, Energy Storage Sees Light in Domestic and Global Markets
Global energy consumption is on the rise. But the price of modern technologies is falling, and that includes not just those to generate cleaner fuels but also those to harness the electrons of those...
View ArticleSmart Water Network Modeling Software Expands Flushing Capabilities
Smart water technology company Innovyze has released the latest version of its smart water network modeling software. The company says InfoWorks WS V16.0 features new benefits and modeling capabilities...
View ArticleAkzoNobel Issues First Carbon Credits to Ship Owners
AkzoNobel has issued more than 126,000 carbon credits worth more than $500,000 to ship owners under its carbon credits program— the first of its kind within the shipping industry. The program, launched...
View ArticleWhat the Waters of the US Rule Means for Business
A federal appeals court this week ruled it will hear challenges to the Waters of the US Rule, also known as the Clean Water Rule. The water rule, authored by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers,...
View ArticleWater Shortages May Cut Short US Energy Revolution. What’s Needed?
With the shale gas boom reverberating across the United States, the country has found an abundant and cheap energy source — one that is reducing energy costs for corporations while also cutting the...
View ArticleHow the Relationship between the kW and kWh is Changing Utility Operation
The energy industry is in the midst of a grand transition that may de-emphasize the American public’s best understood electricity attribute of energy efficiency (EE), which focuses on reducing the...
View ArticleE-Waste Recycling Law Under Scrutiny
New York’s state-wide e-waste recycling law is costing local governments too much money and “not working as intended,” officials said at a hearing this week on the state’s electronics recycling...
View Article$26 Million Available to Clean Up Diesel Engine Fleets
In its ongoing efforts to reduce emissions from existing diesel engines, the EPA has announced the availability of $26 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects for fleets across the...
View ArticleAre These Technologies Water Desalination Game Changers?
Increasing water scarcity is driving innovations in water production technologies, according to analysis by Frost & Sullivan that finds accelerated movement towards wastewater reuse and advanced...
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