Deadly Fertilizer Plant Blast Was Criminal. What Does This Mean for Chemical...
A fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas that killed 15 people in 2013 was a criminal act, according to authorities. How will this finding affect the EPA’s Risk Management Program and other chemical...
View ArticleClean Power Plan Arguments Delayed, Full DC Circuit Court Will Hear the Case
In a delay for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit yesterday said the full court will hear oral arguments on the carbon emissions rule on Sept. 27....
View ArticleUtilities are Losing Their Appetite for Coal but It Will Never Go Away
According to the US Energy Information Administration, coal production is expected to decline by nearly 17 percent to 746 million tons compared to the year before. That's 25 percent less than in 2014,...
View ArticleSustainable Printing: Lessons from a Cat
While most of us know that heat loss happens, we don’t really understand the magnitude of it until we get a larger-than-expected bill. The bill is a just a symptom of the problem, while the source...
View Article5 Steps to Ensure the Success of Global EMIS Projects
With shareholders and customers increasingly demanding sustainability and non-financial operational data, large organizations are realizing that such information needs to be easily available,...
View ArticleSmart Leak Detection Minimizes Water Loss During $13.5bn Water Infrastructure...
Smart water loss and leak detection technology company Gutermann helping Miami-Dade County, Florida, keep its non-revenue water to less than 10 percent as its implements a $13.5 billion capital...
View ArticleCarbon Capture Must Prevent 85-90% CO2 Emissions to Meet Climate Goals
Carbon capture and storage can help countries achieve emissions goals outlined in the Paris climate agreement — but first CCS technology must improve so that it captures at least 95 percent of CO2...
View ArticleHow Reprocessing Medical Devices Can Save Millions While Diverting Waste
Medical waste — more than 5.4 tons per year for an average operating room — costs each operating room about $5,243, according to the 2015 Practice Greenhealth Sustainability Benchmark Report. A...
View ArticleIf Nuclear Could Get Subsidies Like Wind and Solar, It Would Keep Providing...
Clean energy supplies as a total of the global electricity generation portfolio have been on the decline for two decades, according to Environmental Progress, which also says that a primary reason for...
View ArticleTexas, Alabama Try to Block Subpoena of Exxon’s Climate Documents
The probe into what Exxon Mobile Corp. knew and when it knew it has run into opposition from two states, Texas and Alabama, which will oppose efforts by the Virgin Islands to obtain early research by...
View ArticleGRI Launches Technology Initiative to Advance Digital Sustainability Reporting
The Global Reporting Initiative has launched a technology initiative that aims to address key challenges in sustainability reporting: the lack of structured data and the lack of demand for digital...
View ArticleEPA’s 2017 Biofuels Proposal Draws Ire from Big Oil, Big Ag, Biofuels Industry
The EPA's 2017 proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volume requirements, announced yesterday, would require refineries to blend 18.8 billion gallons of biofuels into the nation’s gasoline supply next year.
View ArticleCalifornia Grand Jury Indicts Plains All American Pipeline After Huge Spill
A California grand jury has indicted the Plains All American Pipeline Co. after its pipeline near Santa Barbara burst last year and permitted the spilling of 140,000 gallons of crude oil into Pacific...
View ArticleStream Rule to Come: Making Water Safer and Coal Mining More Expensive
Coal exects are saying that the impending stream protection rule due out this summer would be the most expensive coal regulation ever enacted. But the Obama administration says that it is long overdue...
View ArticleBusinesses Show the Way in Fight against Climate Change by Embracing Energy...
At a time when some in Congress have attacked environmental standards as a burden to business, companies are showing that they can—by implementing an internationally recognized energy standard—reduce...
View ArticleBioHiTech Food Waste Digester Cuts Hard Rock Café’s Food Waste Disposal Costs...
The Hard Rock Café in London cut its food waste disposal costs by 56 percent and reduced carbon emissions by 9.7 metric tons since installing BioHiTech’s commercial food waste disposal system.
View ArticleEPA Sets Drinking Water Advisory for Industrial Chemicals
The EPA has advised water utilities to lower the amount of perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic industrial chemical, in drinking water.
View ArticleWhy Levi’s, J&J, Other Major Firms are Using Chemical Footprinting to Manage...
Dozens of major companies including Levi Strauss & Co., Seagate Technology and Johnson & Johnson have participated in a first-of-its-kind effort to publicly benchmark corporate chemical...
View ArticleFederal Regulators Reconsidering How Clean Up of Coal Fields is Paid
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement says that it will reconsider the issue of self-bonding for coal companies in light of the recent wave of bankruptcies.
View ArticleThe Road from Paris Leads to Science-based Targets
Trucost analysis shows that achieving the 2°C under COP21 target means that the retail sector would have to reduce its carbon emissions by an average of 76% by 2050, while the telecommunications sector...
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