http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/25/texas-instruments-sustainability-report-normalized-emissions-jump-23/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/25/texas-instruments-sustainability-report-normalized-emissions-jump-23/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 14:05:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=77383 Technology firm Texas Instruments’ emissions normalized on a per-chip basis rose 23 percent year-on-year amid a host of other disappointing environmental figures, according to its 2011 corporate sustainability report. TI attributes this to a number of facilities running under capacity – which the company says requires a similar amount of energy to fully loaded operations [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/25/texas-instruments-sustainability-report-normalized-emissions-jump-23/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/mining-industry-to-spend-20bn-on-renewable-energy-and-conservation-by-2020/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/mining-industry-to-spend-20bn-on-renewable-energy-and-conservation-by-2020/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 14:19:46 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76801 Worldwide investment by the mining industry in renewable energy and energy conservation will reach about $8.4 billion by 2016 and nearly $20 billion by 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. And under a more aggressive scenario, in which the global economy expands more rapidly and policy mandates pertaining to climate change are [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/mining-industry-to-spend-20bn-on-renewable-energy-and-conservation-by-2020/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-california-quebec-ets-energy-efficiency-canada-emissions-target/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-california-quebec-ets-energy-efficiency-canada-emissions-target/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:56 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76342 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 11 items. The California Air Resources Board released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to the carbon market in Quebec. The proposal, which has a 45-day public comment period, includes market security measures, guidelines for ensuring that [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-california-quebec-ets-energy-efficiency-canada-emissions-target/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-production-tax-credit-light-bulbs-buffett-on-keystone/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-production-tax-credit-light-bulbs-buffett-on-keystone/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 13:31:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76103 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 11 items. President Barack Obama urged Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit and expand the 30 percent tax credit to investments in clean energy manufacturing, known as the 48C Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit. The remarks came [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-production-tax-credit-light-bulbs-buffett-on-keystone/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/08/microsoft-commits-to-carbon-neutrality-in-fy-2013/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/08/microsoft-commits-to-carbon-neutrality-in-fy-2013/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 07:33:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76032 Microsoft will charge an internal carbon offset fee starting in fiscal year 2012-2013 in its effort to be carbon neutral beginning July 1, according to the company’s blog. The carbon price will be based on market pricing for renewable energy and carbon offsets, and Microsoft will apply it to operations in more than 100 countries. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/08/microsoft-commits-to-carbon-neutrality-in-fy-2013/feed/ 4 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-australia-carbon-tax-japan-nuclear-more-fracking-rules/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-australia-carbon-tax-japan-nuclear-more-fracking-rules/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00:13 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75874 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 12 items. The Australian government’s preliminary list of companies facing a carbon tax included 248 names, much lower than the expected total of 500. Those on the list – primarily power generators, mining companies and heavy industry firms – will [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-australia-carbon-tax-japan-nuclear-more-fracking-rules/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/gucci-parent-ppr-pledges-25-cut-in-co2-water-waste/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/gucci-parent-ppr-pledges-25-cut-in-co2-water-waste/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:15:24 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75332 Luxury and sporting goods group PPR – the company behind Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Puma – has unveiled a raft of sustainability goals. The group has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions, waste and water usage resulting from the production of products and services by 25 percent by 2016, when normalized against [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/gucci-parent-ppr-pledges-25-cut-in-co2-water-waste/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/london-olympics-slash-co2-footprint-by-21/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/london-olympics-slash-co2-footprint-by-21/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75248 The organizers of the 2012 London Olympic Games have cut the event’s projected carbon footprint by over a fifth, through the use of rented seats, tents and crowd barriers, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report. The event’s carbon footprint is now projected to be the equivalent of 315,000 metric tons of CO2, down 21 percent [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/london-olympics-slash-co2-footprint-by-21/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:03:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75113 Here’s the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing, permits and market changes affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Markey Group has opened a £1.1 million ($1.8 million) biomass generator that runs on the wood waste produced from its subsidiary Premiere Kitchens, a supplier of kitchens to public housing projects. The generator features a 2.1 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-chevron-mexico-low-carbon-bill-chemical-safety-board-oil-market-speculation/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-chevron-mexico-low-carbon-bill-chemical-safety-board-oil-market-speculation/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:04:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74845 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. The new Brazilian prosecutor of the case against Chevron Corp and drilling firm Transocean, Celso de Albuquerque Silva, is seeking a suspension of the companies’ operations. Though a similar request in the court was already rejected, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-chevron-mexico-low-carbon-bill-chemical-safety-board-oil-market-speculation/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/20/policy-enforcement-briefing-fracking-controls-china-aviation-plan-cvs-settlement/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/20/policy-enforcement-briefing-fracking-controls-china-aviation-plan-cvs-settlement/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:01:57 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74750 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. The Obama administration has set national standards to control air pollution from gas wells drilled using hydraulic fracturing, but with a delayed implementation to appease the oil and gas industry. The rule will require companies to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/20/policy-enforcement-briefing-fracking-controls-china-aviation-plan-cvs-settlement/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/11/fedex-express-launches-carbon-neutral-shipping/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/11/fedex-express-launches-carbon-neutral-shipping/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:05:44 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73983 FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp., is launching a carbon-neutral shipping program for its most widely used packaging for document shipping. FedEx Express will make an investment in global projects that displace or sequester greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, neutralizing the impacts of the carbon emissions emitted during the shipment of all [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/11/fedex-express-launches-carbon-neutral-shipping/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:55:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73679 The value of the world’s carbon markets declined by 21 percent over the last quarter, despite trading volumes above the historical average, according to analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Global carbon markets fell to €14.2bn ($19.2bn) over Q1 2012, according to Bloomberg. This was 41 percent less than in the same period a year [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/feed/ 10 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-la-feed-in-tariff-solyndra-review-coal-mining-eu-ets-offshore-wind-lawsuit/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-la-feed-in-tariff-solyndra-review-coal-mining-eu-ets-offshore-wind-lawsuit/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:40:23 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73688 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 12 items. Los Angeles City Council approved a measure to allow the Department of Water and Power (DWP) to move forward with a feed-in tariff initiative. The Clean LA Solar program will allow property owners to sell solar [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-la-feed-in-tariff-solyndra-review-coal-mining-eu-ets-offshore-wind-lawsuit/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:57:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73411 Honeywell has begun destroying inventories of certain ozone-depleting refrigerants and selling the resulting emission reduction credits for use in California’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, the company announced. The company said it has destroyed more than 27,000 pounds of CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant with one of the highest ozone-depleting potentials, and it plans to destroy its [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/feed/ 2