Chemicals
BASF Sustainability Report: Beats 2020 Energy Efficiency, GHG Goals
Chemicals giant BASF showed a 2.1 percent increase in energy efficiency from 2010 to 2011, according to the company's 2011 sustainability report.
This means that ...
Dow Aims to Keep Absolute GHGs Below 2006 Levels
Dow Chemical has announced a goal to keep all greenhouse gas emissions below 2006 levels on an absolute basis, marking a shift in reporting practices, ...
Policing Chemicals in the Supply Chain
An Outlook of What to Expect 2010-2013
More sustainable products depend on more sustainable materials coming from a supply chain. The spirit – or ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: All-of-the-Above Energy, Calif. Safer Consumer Products Regs, Deepwater Horizon
At the University of Miami, President Obama gave his first remarks on rising gasoline prices, saying that the U.S. is producing more oil now than ...
Study: Organic Rice Syrup Linked to High-Arsenic Baby Formula
Dartmouth College researchers have found arsenic in commercially available organic brown rice syrups - and the products that contain them. The researchers found ...
Anheuser-Busch Signs MOU for Bio-Refinery Pilot
Anheuser-Busch and Blue Marble Biomaterials have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a bio-refinery pilot at one of the brewer’s North American ...
Lilly Sustainability Report: Scope 1,2 Emissions Fall, Scope 3 Rise
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company achieved a three percent reduction in its Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2010, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, EU ETS, MATS, MACT, 2012 CGP
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, an effort to reduce black carbon, ...
Honda Leads, Mitsubishi Trails in Toxic Interior Rankings
The Honda Civic tops the Ecology Center's rankings of cars with the least toxic interiors, thanks to the company's efforts to reduce PVC, ...
Unilever ‘Green’ Freezers Cut Energy Use 10%
Ben & Jerry's and its parent company, Unilever, are starting the U.S. roll-out of ice cream freezer cabinets that are expected to ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: FY 2013 Budget, ITC Wind Tower Decision, PVC Emissions
President Obama has proposed his FY 2013 budget, whose measures include the cancellation of $4 billion a year in oil and gas tax breaks ...
DuPont, 3M Meet EPA Perfluorinated Chemical Goals
Daikin, DuPont, 3M/Dyneon and Solvay Solexis have met the goals of an EPA-backed program aimed at reducing the emissions from, and use of, long-chain perfluorinated ...
Hydrogen Plant to Save Air Products, ExxonMobil Facilities 15% Energy
Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product.
Hydrogen manufactured ...
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 ...
