San Francisco Airport Aims to Match Delhi LEED Gold
New Delhi now boasts the first LEED Gold airport terminal in India, as San Francisco aims for the same achievement in the U.S. The Indian Green Building Council recently awarded the LEED Gold...
View ArticleWind’s Share of New Power Down, Coal Up
Wind power provided 26 percent of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. last year, down from 39 percent in 2009, according to figures out today. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)...
View ArticleGHG Regulations Survive Senate Vote
The Senate yesterday rejected efforts to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. A measure sponsored by Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell...
View ArticlePPG Agrees to More Stringent Carcinogen Standards
PPG Industries will be required to clean up a carcinogen at a New Jersey site to levels four times more stringent than state standards, under a settlement reached yesterday with the National Resources...
View ArticleShutdown Looms, As House Rejects EPA’s GHG Finding
The federal government is teetering on the edge of a shutdown today, with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations one of the key points of contention in a lingering...
View ArticleFacebook Data Center Slashes Energy Use
Facebook has unveiled a green data center that it says uses 38 percent less energy to do the same work as its existing facilities, while costing 24 percent less – and the company says it wants other...
View ArticleEPA U-turns on Alabama Smokestack Regulations
Alabama’s plan to alter how pollution emanating from smokestacks is measured has this week been shot down by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a policy U-turn. The state’s “visible emissions...
View Article12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies
Energy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi. Ministers from...
View ArticleAftershock Shuts Factories; Japanese Big Business Slams Government
Nearly a million people are without power and production has stopped at several major companies after northern Japan suffered from a big aftershock yesterday, piling on to companies’ ongoing...
View ArticleMaersk CO2 Down 5%, Report Says
Maersk Line cut its CO2 emissions by 4.6 percent in 2010, but says it still emitted “a considerable amount”. The Danish shipping company emitted 31.6 million tons of CO2 in 2010, down from 33.7 million...
View ArticleKroger’s Top Seafood to be Certified by 2015
Kroger will remove shark, marlin and bluefin tuna from its cases, and will aim to use certified sources for its top 20 wild-caught seafood items by 2015, after reaching an agreement with the World...
View ArticleSmart Customer Service for a Smart Grid World
Despite the many benefits of smart grid technology, the past year has seen its fair share of consumer backlash with some customers viewing smart meters as simply mechanisms that over charge for...
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement Roundup: College Works Painting, MM&A Railway, Grimmel
Here’s a roundup of the latest environmental enforcement stories: College Works Painting, a company operating in Oregon, has agreed to pay a $32,508 penalty for alleged violations of the federal...
View ArticleFord Turns Carpet into Auto Parts
Ford has recycled nearly 4.1 million pounds of carpet into cylinder head covers, the auto maker has announced. The Ford Escape, Fusion, Mustang and F-150 all use EcoLon, a nylon resin made from 100...
View ArticlePfizer Discusses its Strategic Plant Restructuring & Energy Master Plan
Michael Becker, Director, Engineering, Pfizer Manufacturing Germany GmbH talks to Pharmaceutical Processing’s Editor In Chief Mike Auerbach during INTERPHEX 2011 about the company’s SPRING & E-MAP...
View ArticleValvoline Mobilizes Commitment to ‘Green’
When looking for ways to ‘green their business’, leaders search for approaches that work. Unfortunately, cookie cutter solutions aren’t out there. Valvoline, a brand of Ashland Inc. based in Lexington,...
View ArticleGarnier Sponsors Industry-Wide Recycling
L’Oreal brand Garnier is partnering with recycling organization TerraCycle for an initiative to turn cosmetics packaging into playgrounds. Individuals or groups who sign up to participate in...
View ArticleGHG Regs Avoid Ax in 11th Hour Budget Deal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gas emissions appear to have escaped the hatchet in federal budget negotiations. Democrats and Republicans came to a tentative consensus...
View ArticleUnilever Leads Sustainability Rankings
Unilever has topped rankings of the companies most committed to sustainability, in a poll carried out by consultants SustainAbility and researchers GlobeScan The poll asked 559 qualified sustainability...
View Article24 Companies Agree to Publish Fracking Chemicals
BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips and 21 other natural gas companies are participating in a national registry disclosing the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process. The website,...
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