Asia

Japan Urges Industry to Cut Energy Use 15%

Japan Urges Industry to Cut Energy Use 15%The Japanese government is pushing its industrial sector and citizens in certain parts of the country to reduce the amount of energy they use, in ...

May 22, 2012

Puma Earns A, Apple Takes Home D in EIRIS Sustainability Rankings

Puma Earns A, Apple Takes Home D in EIRIS Sustainability RankingsGerman sportswear manufacturer Puma tops EIRIS' Top 10 Global Sustainability Leaders list while Apple earns a D, in a ranking that sees UK and European ...

May 2, 2012

Coke China Plant Shuttered ‘over Chlorine Contamination’

Coke China Plant Shuttered ‘over Chlorine Contamination’Coca-Cola was reportedly forced by regulators to temporarily stop production at a bottling plant in north China, after inspectors allegedly ...

May 1, 2012

Toshiba to Rebuild Thailand Chip Factory Hit By Floods

Toshiba to Rebuild Thailand Chip Factory Hit By FloodsToshiba Corp. said it will build a semiconductor manufacturing factory in Thailand to replace the one inundated by last ...

April 27, 2012

EL Pro All Nippon Group Sets 20% Carbon Reduction Goal

All Nippon Group Sets 20% Carbon Reduction GoalANA Group, Japan's largest airline group, is aiming to cut its carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels. Dubbed ANA Fly Eco ...

March 28, 2012

Johnson Controls Hikes Battery Prices, Cites Environmental Costs

Johnson Controls Hikes Battery Prices, Cites Environmental CostsOn the heels of a Johnson Controls' China battery factory being ordered to suspend production after the Shanghai Environment Production Bureau found that the ...

March 21, 2012

Xerox, Barnes & Noble, Walmart Complicit in Pulping Protected Tree, Greenpeace Says

Xerox, Barnes & Noble, Walmart Complicit in Pulping Protected Tree, Greenpeace SaysXerox, National Geographic, Danone, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and many other companies are using illegal wood pulp from an internationally protected tree species, according to ...

March 2, 2012

For Explosive Growth in Solar Energy Industry, Prices Must Come Down

For Explosive Growth in Solar Energy Industry, Prices Must Come DownI was delighted when someone sent me this Time Science piece on The Coming US-China Solar War because it finally lays ...

February 15, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate Law

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate LawCalifornia's On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks ...

February 6, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CASE Report, Solyndra Probe, Keystone XL, Halliburton

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CASE Report, Solyndra Probe, Keystone XL, HalliburtonThe Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) has found that levying 100-percent import duties on Chinese-made solar cells and modules may cost more than ...

February 1, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement: Deepwater Horizon, Wind Tower Anti-Dumping Claim, Rio+20, Thai Flood Plan

Policy & Enforcement: Deepwater Horizon, Wind Tower Anti-Dumping Claim, Rio+20, Thai Flood PlanThe U.S. Department of Justice has asked a U.S. District Judge to declare BP, Anadarko and Transocean, as Deepwater Horizon owners and operators of vessels or ...

January 23, 2012

EL Pro APP Commits to 18% Cut in Energy, Water by 2015

APP Commits to 18% Cut in Energy, Water by 2015A group of 77 paper businesses including Asia Pulp & Paper have signed an initiative committing themselves to energy-saving and emission-reduction targets set by the ...

January 23, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: World Future Energy Summit, China Carbon Trading, Obama's Jobs Council

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: World Future Energy Summit, China Carbon Trading, Obama’s Jobs CouncilAt the Abu Dhabi opening of World Future Energy Summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out three core goals for 2030 in his launch of ...

January 18, 2012

US Replaces China as Top Clean Energy Investor

US Replaces China as Top Clean Energy InvestorThe United States has regained its place as the world's number one investor in clean energy, reclaiming the top spot from China, according to Bloomberg ...

January 17, 2012

EL Pro Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency Progress

Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency ProgressThe National Resources Defense Council and Beijing-based NGO the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs have said China is making steady progress on ...

January 17, 2012

Wind Towers Are Next Front in Trade War

Wind Towers Are Next Front in Trade WarFour U.S. manufacturers of wind turbine towers have filed a trade complaint against China and Vietnam, opening a new front in an ongoing trade ...

January 3, 2012

WWF Accuses APP Supplier of Clear-Cutting in Tiger Sanctuary

WWF Accuses APP Supplier of Clear-Cutting in Tiger SanctuaryWWF and non-profit coalition Eyes on the Forest have alleged that one of Asia Pulp & Paper’s wood suppliers is clear cutting in a ...

December 14, 2011

Wah Fung Group Announces Efficient Fabric Dyeing Process

Wah Fung Group Announces Efficient Fabric Dyeing ProcessA dyeing process designed by fabric supplier Wah Fung Group can achieve 13 percent carbon savings and over 50 percent water savings in fabric manufacturing when ...

December 1, 2011

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: More EPA Delays, Solar Trade Dispute, Chevron Fined

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: More EPA Delays, Solar Trade Dispute, Chevron Fined The EPA said it will delay proposing the country's first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, the latest setback for the agency that has struggled to ...

November 23, 2011

Analyst: U.S. Tariffs, Solar Price Rises ‘Likely’

Analyst: U.S. Tariffs, Solar Price Rises ‘Likely’As the Chinese solar power industry considers filing a retaliatory trade case against the U.S., IDC research manager in renewable energy Jay Holman said ...

November 23, 2011