Thought the Debate Over Nuclear Waste Was Buried? Not Anymore
Where to stick the spent fuel created from burning nuclear power has long been a sticking point. Now, a private firm has asked federal regulators to store waste from current onsite storage units at...
View ArticleOhio Failed to Protect Customers and Markets – So Federal Regulators Came to...
FirstEnergy and AEP wanted these bailouts to protect their old coal and nuclear plants, which are losing money because they cost more to operate than the money received from power sales. The companies...
View ArticleClosed-Loop System Captures CO2 for Use in Beverage Industry
CO2 Solutions and Mojonnier Limited have teamed up to capture carbon from the beverage bottling processes — thus preventing CO2 emissions — and then supply this CO2 back to the beverage industry for...
View ArticleDespite Clean Power Plan Lawsuit, Local Chambers Say Clean Energy Good for...
Local chambers of commerce say their member businesses are benefiting from clean energy and have released a video series saying as much while the US Chamber of Commerce is fighting the Clean Power Plan...
View ArticleClimate Action 2016 Summit: What Role Will Business Play?
Like COP21 in Paris last December, the Climate Action Summit brings together policy makers and private companies, which will be directly affected by climate policies in the transition to a low-carbon...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Correct Emission Control Technology
This article is sponsored by Anguil Environmental Systems. Increasingly stringent clean air standards and heightened concerns over greenhouse gas emissions are driving technology enhancements in...
View ArticleProducts from Sugar Beet Waste Could Benefit Food, Healthcare, Coatings and...
AkzoNobel and Royal Cosun have formed a partnership to develop products from cellulose waste resulting from sugar beet processing.
View ArticleSchneider Electric Fined $6.8M in Largest-Ever Superfund Cleanup Penalty
Schneider Electric has been hit with a $6.8 million penalty for alleged environmental violations — the largest-ever stipulated penalty for cleanup of a Superfund site and the third largest overall in...
View ArticleColorado High Court Ruling Gives Corporate Customers a Sigh of Relief
Colorado's Supreme Court has struck down the ability of local communities in the state to ban hydraulic fracturing. The ruling will keep electricity rates for corporate customers.
View ArticleExxonMobil, FuelCell Energy Team Up on Low-Cost Carbon Capture
ExxonMobil and FuelCell Energy are working together to advance a carbon capture technology that the companies say could “substantially reduce costs” associated with carbon capture.
View ArticleA Few Things We Know About Solar
One thing is clear, given the continuing decline in solar energy costs, particularly with generous extension of the Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) in the December 2015 omnibus spending bill;...
View ArticleNYC Business to Cut Waste 50% by June
Thirty-one New York City businesses, including ABC Disney, Whole Foods and Anheuser-Busch, have committed to divert at least 50 percent of their waste from landfill and incineration by mid-June.
View ArticleRMI Working with Industries to Drive Paris Climate Deal Implementation
Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Jules Kortenhorst discusses the Paris climate agreement and how RMI is working with all industries to scale up the deployment of renewable energy.
View ArticleDo Chemical Assessment Tools Work?
Leading chemical assessment tools may not provide product manufacturers and retailers with adequate hazard-screening information, according to a study published in the Integrated Environmental...
View ArticleFuel Tool Provides Free Data for Commercial Fleet Planning, Fuel Purchasing
As commercial fleet owners struggle to cut fuel costs and reduce their fleet emissions to comply with stricter air pollution rules, they are faced with a myriad of decisions. These include determining...
View ArticleCompanies are Benefiting from Fracking Boom While Greenies Pine
Hydraulic fracturing now makes up two-thirds of all natural gas production in the United States and half of all oil production here.
View ArticleWhat’s the Latest on AB 32 at the California Air Resources Board?
It seems like a simple question: “What’s happening with AB 32 in California these days”? But the answer to that relatively straightforward question is rather complex, potentially very lengthy,...
View ArticleWill Self-Driving Vehicles Live Up to the Low-Emissions, High-Efficiency Hype?
Autonomous vehicles and other new modes of transport could also save the transportation and logistics industry valuable time and trillions of dollars.
View ArticleEcova Environmental Management Saves Clients $2.1 Billion
Energy and environmental management company Ecova says it has identified $2.1 billion in savings related to energy, water, waste and telecommunications for its commercial and industrial clients since...
View ArticleExclusive: Beverage Giants Team Up with Glass Makers, Recyclers, Waste...
Diageo and New Belgium Brewing, along with the Glass Packaging Institute and the glass processing and recycling industry, have formed a coalition to make glass recycling a successful industry in the US.
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