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GM CEO to Congress: We Can Meet Fuel-Efficiency Standards

Rick Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors, told lawmakers that GM is committed to meeting new fuel efficiency standards of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, ...

Foreign Pressure Driving China’s “Green Ink” Industry

Market pressure and foreign regulations are driving China toward more eco-friendly printing practices, announced consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. Though regulations against petroleum-based inks on food packaging ...

Alaska Cruise Industry Wants Strict Water-Pollution Rule Abolished

The Alaska cruise industry is having trouble getting traction with legislators to abolish a strict water-pollution rule approved by voters in 2006, Anchorage Daily News reports. The ...

Fed Agencies Settle Global Warming Lawsuit To Tune Of $500M

San Francisco's federal court recently settled a lawsuit in which environmental groups and four U.S. cities accused two govt. agencies, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the country's official export-credit agency, and the ...

Novo Nordisk Cuts CO2 Emissions 9%

Novo Nordisk, a Denmark-based Healthcare company, released its annual report on  financial, social, and environmental performance. The non-financial part of the report, which follows current international ...

MBDC Offers ‘Cradle To Cradle’ Ingredient Certification

McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) has launched Cradle to Cradle Approved Ingredient certification, which assesses the sustainability of product ingredients for human and environmental health, as well as their capacity for being recycled or ...

U.S. Faces Rising Pressure to Act on Climate Change

Not long after President Barack Obama pledged to tackle climate change, the pressure has risen for him to take meaningful action ahead of the climate-change talks scheduled for December in Copenhagen. Stavros Dimas, the ...

Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems Joins Cool Planet Project

Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) business announced it is now participating in the Cool Planet Project and will begin reporting GHG emissions. The company has saved 7.9 million kilowatt hours of energy ...

EPA Raids Corporation Suspected of Illegal E-Waste Dumping

Agents with the EPA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently raided Executive Recycling as part of an investigation into the export and illegal dumping of e-waste abroad, reports The Denver Post. Executive ...

Is It Worth Turning Off Escalators To Save Energy?

There are some 30,000 escalators in this country, most of them running constantly, according to Next American City. While some see that as a waste of energy (enough to power 375,000 homes) others see ...

EU To Propose Climate Tax

The European Union is expected to propose a climate tax on greenhouse gases from 2013-2020. The tax could help raise $200 billion and help poor countries prepare for global warming, Reuters ...

REI Adds Bluesign Standard To Product Design/Sourcing Process

Recreational Equipment Inc. is now a member of bluesign technologies ag, allowing the company to use the bluesign independent standard as part of its product design and sourcing process, CSRwire reports. Bluesign, ...

EDF Calls EPA Nanoscale Reporting Program ‘A Failure’

The voluntary nanomaterials reporting system used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a failure, according to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The EPA launched the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program over ...

Lawyer: First LEED-Related Lawsuit In U.S. Tip Of Iceberg

Lawyers are advising green building proponents to do due diligence and pay attention to contracts in the wake of the first LEED-related lawsuit in the U.S., Daily Commercial News reports. The Captain's ...

NY Power Plant Emissions Regulations Good to Go for March ‘09

New York passed air pollution rules that are stricter than those imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the state's Environmental Board announced. The rules are related to a provision of the federal ...

Iowa Council Suggests Ways To Cut Emissions 90% By 2050

The Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council recently released its final report which suggests two scenarios to cut the state's GHG emissions by up to 90 percent by 2050, the Associated Press reports ...

CA May Force Retailers To Sell More Energy-Efficient Flat-Screen TVs

California state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient LCD and plasma sets starting in 2011. But the consumer electronics industry, which warns of higher prices, is against the new ...

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

EPA Administrator Bans Limits on Greenhouse Gases in Clean Air Act Permits

Out-going EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson recently issued a memorandum setting an agency-wide policy that prohibits controls on CO2 emissions from being included in air permits, coal-fired power plants and other facilities. Johnson ...

UK Shipping Industry May Implement C02 Tax

The UK shipping industry is advocating an emissions trading system for ships that would put a price on maritime carbon emissions, thus speeding up the drive for cleaner shipping technology. About 80 ...

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