Chemicals
Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutral
NSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action's (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Risk, Solyndra, MATS, Clean Air Act, China Diesel Emissions
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Car Standards, Dam Removal, Gulf Lease Sale, Biorefinery Help
The California Air Resources Board has unanimously approved new emissions standards for cars and light trucks, for model years 2017 to 2025. The standard cuts ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: IgCC Guide, Builders Challenge, SITES, ZHome, Responsible Jewellery Council
The International Code Council and Delmar have released a support publication for the construction industry referencing the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC). The ...
Clorox Puts Ingredient Lists in the Palm of Consumers’ Hands
Clorox has launched a smartphone application to help consumers look up the ingredients of its household and commercial products.
The Clorox Ingredients Inside ...
Kaiser Permanente Switches to PVC- and DEHP-Free IV Bags
Kaiser Permanente announced today that it is converting its IV medical equipment to alternatives free of PVC and DEHP, two industrial chemicals that the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Northern Gateway, EU ETS, USDA, Vermont CEP
The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on ...
Locus, ChemAdvisor Combine Chemical Database and Environmental ePortal
ChemAdvisor's chemical regulatory database will be offered as a module within Locus Technologies' ePortal, the two environmental software companies have announced.
Locus president and CEO ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Chemical Safety Board, New Mexico Waste Pit Rule, ISO 50001
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) reiterated its call for the creation of a national fire code for hazardous waste facilities following a deadly chemical ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Moratorium on Uranium Mining, CDC on Fracking, CSAPR, Lake Tahoe Restoration
The Department of the Interior today is expected to announce a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the ...
Teck American, Dow Were Top Toxics Emitters in 2010
Teck American, Dow Chemical and Incobrasa Industires were the companies that reported generating the largest quantities of toxic chemicals in production-related waste, according ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: VDI 4707, European Parliament, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, e-Stewards, LEED
Four double deck high-speed elevators from ThyssenKrupp Elevator installed in the 492-meter-tall Shanghai World Financial Center have received the VDI 4707 energy efficiency class A rating. ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Drops Kyoto Protocol, Keystone Pipeline, Gulf Lease Sale, MATS
Canada is evoking its legal right to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, indicating that penalties as high as $14 billion for its failure to meet emissions ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Turbine Standards, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Sustainable Wallcoverings
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), agreed to cooperate on the advancement of more efficient permitting for wind ...
Plant to Develop Green Textile Component
Verdezyne has opened a pilot plant to produce adipic acid, a key component in a "green" nylon that could be used in carpets, clothing and ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 50001, LEED, BizNGO Group, CODE REDD
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has been ISO 50001-certified at its largest manufacturing site, in Wakefield, Great Britain. It is the first company in the global food ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Pact Setback, California Tailpipe Rules, Biofuel Support
The world's richest countries have all but given up on a new climate treaty that would take effect this decade ahead of next month's talks in ...
BioAmber, Mitsui to Ramp Up Production of Green Cosmetics Chemicals
Chemical company BioAmber and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co are to build bio-succinic acid and 1, 4 butanediol production facilities aimed at making ingredients for sustainable ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Construction Code, WM Certifications, LEED Airports
The provisions in the new 2012 International Green Construction Code were completed during a final hearing at the International Code Council's meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. The ...
3E Adds CDR Services, GC3 Builds Chemical Data Portal for Retailers
EH&S compliance and information management services provider 3E Company has released a new services suite aimed to assist businesses with disclosure processes and chemical data reporting ...
