21st Century Economy: If it is Good for the Environment, It Can Be Good for...
About 43 percent of Fortune 500 companies have already set targets to reduce carbon pollution, improve energy efficiency and procure more renewable energy, according to CERES, a business group...
View ArticleStandardized OHS Sustainability Reporting
A new guide aims to standardize occupational health and safety sustainability reporting, providing OHS professionals with metrics and best reporting practices.
View ArticleDow Technology Enables Recyclable Flexible Plastic Packaging
Dow Chemical has debuted a new RecycleReady Technology that allows polyethylene-based barrier packaging to be recycled as part of existing grocery store drop-off recycling programs.
View ArticleWhy Cox Is Investing $25 Million in Cleantech Companies and How to Get in on...
Cox Enterprises has pledged to invest $25 million in environmentally sustainable companies and technologies — good news for cleantech startups as well as established companies looking for funding and...
View ArticleInvestments to Advance Nuclear Energy Quietly Move Forward for Carbon-Free...
Nuclear energy will be getting some research funds. It's not much. But it does symbolize that this country is looking to the baseload fuel that is relatively carbon-free.
View ArticleEHS Stakeholder Engagement – A Strategy for Success
“Stakeholder engagement” became a buzzword as the sustainability movement gained visibility and momentum in the 1990s, and today, every sustainability program has stakeholder engagement as a key part...
View ArticleDow, 3M, Target Among Major Companies Advancing Circular Economy Principles
Dow, 3M and Target are among the 25 major companies and organizations that have launched an initiative to promote the circular economy.
View ArticleEPA Moves Forward with Clean Energy Incentive Program
Despite the legal challenges to the Clean Power Plan, the EPA yesterday proposed the details of the Clean Energy Incentive Program, a voluntary component of the agency’s carbon pollution rules....
View ArticleGE, EDF Inaugurate ‘Most Efficient Power Plant in the World’
General Electric and French energy company EDF today began operation of the first ever combined-cycle power plant equipped with GE’s HA turbine, in Bouchain, France.
View ArticleHow Dell Saved $39.5 Million, Cut Carbon Pollution via Telecommuting
Allowing US employees to telecommute has saved Dell $39.5 million and avoided an estimated 25 million kWh of energy and 13,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions since fiscal year 2014. According...
View ArticleSponsored Content: Q&A with a Leader – Digital Lumens
Jessica Morris will be a panelist at the Environmental Leader Conference on June 21-23 in Denver. Her panel, Building Intelligence as Energy Efficiency Driver, will be at 10:25 on June 23. We were able...
View ArticleEnergy Bill with LNG Export Rights to Really Heat Up by Summer’s End
Around the times of both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Americans will hear just how different the parties are in terms of solving problems and creating opportunities. But the two...
View ArticleThe Spark for New Thinking May Be as Simple as Pulling Up Another Chair at...
Companies would do well to hire more engineers with blended civil or environmental engineering and biology backgrounds—especially individuals who consider green infrastructure and seek out...
View Article13 AGs Side with Exxon, Fossil Fuel Companies in Climate Risk Investigations
ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies have found allies in attorneys general from 13 states who have signed an open letter calling for an end to fraud investigations into these companies for their...
View ArticleWill Lego’s $150 Million Sustainable Plastics Challenge Make Biobased the Norm?
Lego is pumping millions of dollars into its quest to find new, sustainable materials for its popular plastic toy bricks. While the company’s goal with this initiative is to build better toys, it may...
View ArticleSponsored Content: Q&A with a Leader – CH2M
CH2M’s EHS information management lead Lucas Wolfenden will be a panelist at the Environmental Leader Conference on June 21-23 in Denver. His panel, The Enterprise Sustainability Journey:...
View ArticleBonuses Paid Coal Executives While Rank-and-File Gets Health Benefits Cut
A federal judge has given Peabody the Okay to do pay its coal executives about $3 million in bonuses to see them through the bankruptcy process. A different federal judge previously rule Alpha could do...
View ArticleCircular Economy and Sustainable Materials Management – Is it Time to End the...
A paradigm shift with respect to how we think about the products and packaging we create, and how we go about managing them when they’re no longer useful, is underway.
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Amici Enterprises, Schneider Electric, Aqua...
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Amici Enterprises: The energy conservation technology company said Derek Chan, former chief operating officer...
View ArticleTransportation Is No. 1 Source of Carbon Emissions. What Can Corporate Fleets...
The transportation sector is now the biggest contributor to US carbon dioxide emissions, beating the power sector, which has long-held that dubious distinction since 1979, according to the US Energy...
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