San Francisco to be Focus of Fuel Cell Vehicles Using Hydrogen
San Francisco will try to triple its zero emissions vehicles by 2025. That would equal to 15 percent of the cars on the road there, including fuel cell vehicles.
View ArticleEmerging Technologies Provide Opportunity To Recycle & Prevent Food Waste
On-site food waste diversion technology is being utilized by many commercial facilities including food service companies, restaurants, grocery stores and corporations not only because the environmental...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer to Buy EHS Leader Enablon for $284 Million
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has made a binding offer to acquire Enablon, a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety and sustainability software, for €250 million ($284 million).
View ArticleCorporate Renewable Energy Purchasing Gets a Boost
Six global companies have joined RE100 with commitments to 100 percent renewable energy across their operations, coinciding with a government-led Corporate Sourcing of Renewables campaign that launched...
View ArticleWhy Leading Global Companies Are Using a New Food Waste Standard to Reduce Waste
Food loss and waste costs businesses billions of dollars each year and it generates about 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for the carbon footprint of food produced and not...
View ArticleStill No Deal Between Hawaii Utility and Florida’s NextEra. Local Pressure...
Hawaiian regulators have not yet given their approval to the proposed utility merger there between Hawaiian Electric Utilities and NextEra Energy. But the two entities may still talking as if the deal...
View ArticleCollaborating to Balance Risk with the Pace of Innovation
For more than four decades, World Environment Day has symbolized the need for global action to protect our planet. At UPS, we are constantly working on ways to operate in a more sustainable manner and...
View ArticleArmy Tests Self-Powered Wastewater Treatment System
The US Army will pilot a self-powered wastewater treatment system made by Cambrian Innovation that produces clean water and energy to power the system.
View ArticleToyota’s New HQ Targets LEED Platinum, Houses 7.7MW Solar System
When Toyota moves into its new $1 billion North American headquarters next year, the automaker will shrink its carbon footprint thanks to a 7.7-megawatt solar array. Upon completion, Toyota’s Plano...
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Nest, Nissan, Edison, WegoWise, Apana
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders.
View ArticleTVA’s Watts Bar Unit 2 Begins Initial Operations Making it the First Nuclear...
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar nuclear Unit 2 generated electricity onto its power grid for the first time on Friday, June 3 -- notable because this is the first nuclear plant start up in...
View ArticleOil Transport: Will the Latest Rail Accident Cause the Next President to Look...
Oil companies have had a string of bad news lately. The latest such event is a rail accident that caused a crude oil explosion along Oregon's scenic Columbia river.
View Article3 Key Energy Policies that can Help Us Turn the Corner on Climate
At Environmental Defense Fund, we have analyzed what it would take to turn the corner by 2020, and zeroed in on a few key actions that will halt the rise in global emissions and make them start to go...
View ArticleSeawater Carbon Capture Process Produces Fuel Stock
A method to extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater has been patented by the US Naval Research Laboratory.
View ArticleHow Companies Can Create ‘Net Positive’ Products, Services and Environmental...
The Net Positive Project, a coalition of companies that aim to go beyond reducing their negative sustainability impacts to contribute in a “net positive” way to society, the environment and the global...
View ArticleBREEAM Green Building Rating System Arrives in US
BREEAM, the leading UK green-building rating system, has crossed the pond and is looking to take on its US counterpart LEED.
View ArticleTexas May Now Be Better Known for its Big Wind and Solar
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT for short, says that natural gas will comprise about half of the electric generation in the state -- as it will in many states across the country --...
View ArticleNew York State Moves to Block Plastic Bag Fees
The New York State Senate voted yesterday to block plastic bag fees, such as the 5-cent fee on disposal shopping bags approved last month by the New York City Council. The bill (S7336), sponsored by...
View ArticleDesigning Plastic Packaging to Increase Recycling
A new design guideline aims to increase plastics recycling by detailing steps for packaging and design engineers to consider when making products or containers. The Association of Plastic Recyclers...
View ArticleChemical Safety Rules Pass Congress. What’s Next for Manufacturers?
Now that the new chemical safety rules have passed both the US House and Senate, what can companies expect?
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