Is Ford’s New $1.2bn Headquarters the Future of Sustainable Facilities?
Ford yesterday announced plans to transform its 60-plus-year-old Dearborn campus into a high-tech, high-efficiency headquarters. The project will take 10 years to complete and cost upwards of $1.2...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Coal Company Declares Bankruptcy
Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company, filed for US bankruptcy protection today. The company cited “unprecedented” factors for its financial woes, including low coal prices,...
View ArticleHigh Presidential Stakes Causes Coal Rhetoric to Heat Up
The road to an energy policy may be blocked by politics — the presidential race in which the stakes are so high that candidates’ comments are contorted to suit the needs of the would-be officeholders...
View ArticleWould a Federal Law Help Recyclers, Manufacturers’ E-Waste Management?
As companies and waste management officials struggle with what to do about the growing volume of e-waste, Electronic Recyclers International points out one major reason why e-waste recycling and reuse...
View ArticleGroups Sue EPA to Force Airplane Air Pollution Rules
Two environmental groups have sued the EPA to force the agency to set emissions limits for aircraft. The lawsuit, filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of...
View ArticleWhy Water Management Will Take Smart Buildings to the Next Level
Water is increasingly affecting companies’ bottom lines, making water management no longer a choice for environmental managers. An Ecova survey of more than 700 energy, facility, finance and...
View ArticleOne-Two Punches Have Knocked Coal Cold
Just this week, the coal industry got official word of what it already knew: Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest coal company, would declare bankruptcy, while coal production pales to its historical...
View ArticleWant Clean Coal? Try This Idea
Non-thermal plasma is showing great promise in solving the coal plant exhaust dilemma. EPA based test protocol indicated that non-thermal plasma carbon conversion (C2) now is extracting 75% of the...
View ArticleHow to Make Money in Plastics Recycling
These are tough times for plastics recyclers, with plummeting commodity prices hitting recyclers’ bottom lines, forcing some to close up shop. But according to Dave Heglas, senior director of material...
View ArticleGHS Chemical Labeling Deadline Looms. Is Your Company in Compliance?
US companies have until June 1 to update their workplace chemical labels to comply with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). GHS, which was established by the United Nations, aims to standardize the...
View ArticleDow Chemical Launches Sustainable Packaging Technology
Dow Chemical has developed a sustainable packaging technology that the company says can reduce manufacturers’ greenhouse gas emissions. Several manufacturers in Latin American have implemented the...
View ArticleFocus on the Residential Sector and Reduce Carbon Footprint Even More
Environmental Leader recently described legal challenges faced by a business coalition supporting the “Clean Power Plan.” Aside from the Supreme Court’s intervention, the same coalition “is fighting...
View ArticleExxon Calls Climate-Related Subpoenas an Assault on its Legal Rights
ExxonMobil Corp. will fight against a subpoena to try and see exactly what it has known about the effects of climate change, saying that the legal maneuver is an all-out assault on its constitutional...
View ArticleRenewable Portfolio Standards are Responsible for Much of the Green Growth
There’s nothing like a government incentive to grow green energy. And that’s why the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is saying that renewable portfolio standards enacted by at least half the...
View ArticleGreenCentre, Maratek Environmental Team Up on Solvent Recycling Technology
Recycling solvents converts them to pure form so they can be reused — thus sending less waste to landfills — but has its own challenges, such as removing water from solvents. Maratek Environmental and...
View ArticlePilot Project Tests Recycled Oilfield Water for Agricultural Use
A pilot project to test treated oilfield wastewater for potential use in agricultural irrigation is underway in California. Sweetwater Tech Resources’ Wasco, California-based project uses IntelliFlux...
View ArticleApple Strikes Gold with Recycling Efforts
Recycling is paying off for Apple — to the tune of about $43.6 million in gold. According to Apple’s environmental responsibility report, the company recovered 2,204 pounds (a little over a ton) of...
View ArticleExxon Saga Over Climate Change Deepens and Called Political By Critics
Several state attorneys general have worked in tandem with advisors to investigate ExxonMobil Corp. for allegedly covering up what it had known about climate change as far as as the 1970s. Those...
View ArticleGRI Sustainability Reporting Standards Released for Comment
Here’s your chance to give input on the newest version of the Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting standards. In November, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) said it...
View ArticleCan IT Help Companies Achieve ‘Net Positive’ Environmental Impact?
Kaiser Permanente switched to electronic medical records — and reduced transportation greenhouse gas emissions. This, according to the Center for Technology and Sustainability, is just one example of...
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