Free Tool Compares EHS, Sustainability Software
SustainIt, a sustainability, environment, health and safety, and risk data consultancy, has launched a new version of GoMarketWise, a free-to-use comparison website that helps EHS professionals chose...
View ArticleWhat Does the Dow-DuPont Merger Mean for Biomaterials?
Chemical giants Dow and DuPont agreed to merge late last year, forming a $130 billion company that will split into three companies focusing on agriculture, material science and specialty products such...
View ArticleEPA Escalates Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Crackdown
The EPA is escalating its efforts to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, and will begin developing regulations to limit these releases from existing oil and gas wells. Next month,...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Net Metering Debate to Really Heat Up Again by Summer
With spring and summer around the corner, it’s going to get hotter in California. It’s not about the weather, which will play into the debate. It’s about a request to revisit the state’s net-metering...
View ArticleSkipping the Age of Edison
As we grapple with transforming our energy infrastructure in response to a changing climate we must solve two important problems; how to provide energy to “low-income” nations developing at a breakneck...
View ArticleHow ARCA Recycling Is Adapting to Changing Recycling Landscape
As recyclers nationwide struggle to adjust to the sharp decline in commodities prices, ARCA Recycling says it’s successfully adapting to trends impacting the recycling of appliances and consumer...
View ArticleAre Emissions-Free Fossil Fuel Power Plants Too Good to be True?
A fossil-fuel power plant that will produce low-cost electricity with zero emissions? It sounds too good to be true. And it is for the forseeable future. Carbon capture and storage technology, which...
View ArticleCommercial-Scale Renewable Jet Fuel Produced Using Honeywell UOP Technology
Honeywell UOP says its technology is being used to produce commercial-scale amounts of renewable jet and diesel fuels. AltAir Paramount is using Honeywell UOP’s renewable jet fuel process technology to...
View ArticleGermany’s Bet on Renewable Energy is an Investment in Digital Disruption
The extraordinary amount of money Germany is spending to transition its market away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy sources is looking increasingly like an investment in the country’s future...
View ArticleFree Comparison Tool for EHS Management Software
Environment, health and safety managers can compare EHS management apps with a free tool from business app company GetApp. The new EHS Management Software Comparison Tool gives companies an easy way to...
View ArticleCalifornia ‘Ready for Recycled Water’
California residents are overwhelmingly supportive of using treated wastewater, or recycled water, in their everyday lives, according to a statewide survey released today by water technology provider...
View ArticleHow Nestlé Waters’ New CSO Balances Resource Management, Consumer Demand
These are tough times to be a chief sustainability officer of a bottled water company in the US, operating in many regions facing water scarcity and drought, making water an increasingly limited — and...
View ArticleCompanies Are Benefiting as Utilities Move from Coal-to-Gas
When Duke Energy broke ground on a new 1,640 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas plant in Citrus County, Florida, it signified a new start — a new beginning for both the utility and the industry in...
View ArticleWater Shortages: Turning Risks into Opportunities
In January of this year, the World Economic Forum released The Global Risks Report 2016, 11th edition. The report garnered some closer attention this year because many of the risks and warnings they...
View ArticleGE Oil Refinery Products Increase Efficiency, Reduce CO2 Emissions
General Electric today launched three products for oil refineries at the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers 2016 Annual Meeting, taking place today and tomorrow in San Francisco. The first...
View ArticleHow GE Manages Its EHS, Sustainability Data
Kris Morico, global leader-environmental programs for General Electric, discusses how the company manages its environment, health and safety, and sustainability data.
View ArticleWhat Companies Need to Know About Reporting Scope 2 Emissions
When companies disclose their emissions to environmental disclosure reporting organization CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) this year, they will need to calculate their scope 2 emissions from...
View ArticleHas Germany’s Energy Transition Come to a Fork in the Road?
Is Germany’s transition to a power sector fueled mostly by renewables and not at all by nuclear energy going as planned? It depends on whom is asked. But the latest such look suggests that it has hit a...
View ArticleObama to Cancel Atlantic Offshore Oil Drilling Plan
The Obama administration is expected to withdraw its proposal to allow oil and gas drilling off the southeastern Atlantic coast. The announcement, expected to be made today by US secretary of the...
View ArticleBLM Takes a Step Forward on Methane from Existing Oil and Gas Operations on...
Earlier this year, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed new standards to address waste of natural gas from oil and gas operations on American public lands. As natural gas is made up of...
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