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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...

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Wind’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)...

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GHG 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...

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PPG 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...

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Shutdown 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...

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Facebook 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...

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EPA 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...

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12 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...

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Aftershock 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...

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Maersk 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...

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Kroger’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...

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Smart 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...

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Environmental 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...

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Ford 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...

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Pfizer 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...

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Valvoline 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,...

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Garnier 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...

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GHG 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...

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Unilever 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...

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24 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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