Ford Shares Environmental Management Best Practices with Suppliers
Ford has expanded an environmental reporting tool for its suppliers that the automaker says will help them save money and shrink their environmental impact. The program, which highlights Ford’s best...
View Article5 Questions: What Does China’s New Five-Year Plan Mean for Climate Action?
by Geoffrey Henderson, Ranping Song and Paul Joffe China has officially unveiled its 13th Five-Year Plan, which will guide the country’s economic and social development from 2016 through 2020. This...
View ArticleMobile Waste Shredder Turns C&I, C&D, MSW into Fuel
A mobile waste shredder by UNTHA is the first of its kind to shred with a low-power electric drive and, because of its on-board auxiliary power pack, it can be moved around a production facility and...
View ArticleWalmart ‘Failed to Protect Employees from Serious Hazards,’ OSHA Says
Walmart has violated a corporate-wide safety agreement it signed with the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2013, OSHA says. A Walmart spokesperson,...
View ArticleWith Coal Here For A Long While, Carbon Capture is the Best Path Forward
Coal is against the ropes and gasping for air. And the industry’s most viable path forward is to look to technology. And that’s exactly what it is now doing, given that it has garnered bipartisan...
View ArticleBASF Produces Paint Binders Using Biomass
BASF is producing dispersions for interior paints using renewable raw materials. The German chemical company says the paint binders use the “mass balance process,” which uses biomass instead of fossil...
View ArticleExxon Must Allow Climate Change Vote, SEC Says. Should Other Companies be on...
ExxonMobil must allow its shareholders to vote on a climate change resolution, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled. The resolution, which shareholders will vote on in May, would force...
View ArticleFederal Coal Lease Reform Moves Forward
The Obama administration is moving forward with its overhaul of the federal coal program. Yesterday, the US Department of the Interior issued a Notice of Intent to conduct a Programmatic Environmental...
View ArticleWater Utility Software Helps ‘Avoid Another Flint Disaster’
WaterSmart Software has launched a suite of communication and segmentation tools to help water utilities better communicate drinking water quality to their customers. WaterSmart eQuality is designed to...
View ArticleVW Isn’t the Only Car Maker Facing Billions in Emissions Fees
Volkswagen went to court last week over the emissions scandal. The US government is suing the automaker for cheating air pollution tests and VW faces fines that could total as much as $46 billion. But...
View ArticleEcova Expands Operations to Europe
Sustainability and energy management company Ecova is expanding its operations to Europe — the company’s first expansion outside North America — by taking over management of Power Efficiency Limited....
View ArticleMoving from Green Cleaning to Cleaning Sustainability
For those that may have missed it, the $50 billion-plus professional cleaning industry has become one of the “greenest” industries in the U.S. Once viewed as a fad, environmentally preferable “green”...
View ArticleHigh-Efficiency Recirculation Pump for Wastewater Treatment
Industrial manufacturing firm Sulzer has introduced a submersible recirculation pump for water and wastewater applications. The new pump series, ABS XRCP 800 PA, was developed for the pumping and...
View ArticleHow to Manage Carbon Emissions — and Carbon Policy — Across the Value Chain
Carbon pricing, in the form of a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, is used by businesses and governments all over the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions and, according to proponents, grow the...
View ArticleBuilding Information Modeling ‘Becoming the Norm’ in Facilities Management
Facilities managers must get “on board” with building information modeling (BIM) and realize its benefits or else they risk “falling into a ‘death valley of know-how’ in terms of the loss of valuable...
View Article6 Benefits of Becoming a Sustainable Business
Over the past two decades, sustainability has become more than a fad or just a buzz word. Research shows that sustainability has real business benefits when conscientiously integrated into business...
View ArticleAemetis Biofuels Plant to Use LanzaTech Waste-to-Fuel, Edeniq Cellulosic...
Biofuels company Aemetis will use technologies from LanzaTech and Edeniq at its 60 million gallon per year ethanol production facility in Keyes, California. Aemetis said it acquired carbon recycling...
View ArticleStates, Power Companies, Enviros Defend EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Clean Power Plan supporters — including environmental and health organizations, states, power companies and clean energy trade groups — yesterday filed briefs asking the DC Circuit court to uphold the...
View ArticleStates Investigate Exxon, Launch Corporate Climate Fraud Crackdown
Massachusetts will investigate whether ExxonMobil lied to the public and investors about climate change risks to its business, joining New York and California in investigating the oil giant....
View ArticleFortrans’ Tech Deaerates Water without Membrane Filter, Vacuum Pump
Water treatment technology firm Fortrans says it has developed a new way to produce low-cost deaerated, or de-oxygenated, water, which companies can use in lieu of chemical processes at about half the...
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