Emissions
Emissions includes news stories on devices that produce air pollutants and greenhouse gasses (GHGs), power management solutions that lead to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, sustainability goals for emissions, and organizations that have successfully reduced emissions. Reports on The Clean Air Act, EPA emissions enforcement, fuel economy trends, and air quality standards also are highlighted.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...
Thomas Cook Sustainability Report: Emissions Rise, Energy Use Drops
Thomas Cook Group, whose North American travel agency brands include MyTravel, ABATours and Exotik Tours, increased its scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by ...
Tuna Fleets’ GHGs Lower than Other Fishing Vessels
Tuna products tend to be less energy-intensive than many aquaculture and livestock-derived sources of protein, but catching tuna uses more energy than fishing some other ...
Microsoft Taps CarbonSystems for Global Environmental Reporting
Microsoft has adopted software provider CarbonSystems' cloud-based Environmental Sustainability Platform as its global standard for managing its energy efficiency and environmental performance reporting.
The software giant ...
Efficiency Standards to Save Businesses, Consumers Over $1.1t by 2035, ACEEE Finds
Appliance, equipment, and lighting standards will save businesses and consumers more than $1.1 trillion by 2035, while cutting greenhouse gases and other emissions, according to ...
Henkel Sustainability Report: Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions Drop 9% Year-On-Year
Henkel, the company behind Dial, Purex, Right Guard and other personal care brands, reduced its energy consumption by over nine percent from 2010 to 2011, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Votes on Keystone, Drilling and MACT; Obama Proposes Alt Fuel Tax Breaks for Business
A vote Thursday in the Senate to attach the Keystone XL oil pipeline project to a must-pass transportation bill failed 56 to 42; a vote ...
Fleet Briefing: CNG In A Box, Chevy Volt Hiatus, Coca-Cola BioMethane Fleet, VIA eREV for Verizon
GE and Chesapeake Energy have announced a multi-year collaboration that aims to develop and bring to market compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural ...
Pollution Control Market to Top $9bn by 2017, Report Says
The global air pollution control equipment market should grow significantly once utility, oil and gas companies comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations such as the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shipping Emissions Standstill, City's Feed-In Tariff, China Misses 2011 Target
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has yet to come up with a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from international shipping, after concluding a week ...
Ameresco Wins Texas School ESPC
Energy efficiency and renewable energy company Ameresco Inc. has signed an energy savings performance contract with the McAllen Independent School District in Texas.
Ameresco has begun ...
Best Buy, Veolia, and Others Join National Clean Fleets Partnership
Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia have joined the U.S. Department of Energy's National Clean Fleets Partnership, a public-private partnership that ...
US Retrofits Worth $1tn Savings Over 10 Years, Report Says
U.S. retrofits could yield $1 trillion of energy savings over 10 years, equivalent to savings of about 30 percent of the country's annual electricity ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Offshore Wind, Clean Energy Standard, 10 Coal-Fired Plants to Retire
A planned six-year $180 million Department of Energy initiative is targeting the potential of offshore wind energy. Four offshore wind energy installations will have access ...
Climate Leadership Award Winners Revealed
Twenty companies, including IBM, San Diego Gas & Electric, Port of Los Angeles, SAP and UPS, were named the winners of the inaugural ...
Philips Sustainability Report: Carbon Footprint Falls, Efficiency Rises but Progress Slows
Philips Electronics reduced its operational carbon footprint and increased its energy efficiency - both by 4 percent - between 2010 and 2011, but its water ...
Kaiser Permanente Targets 30% GHG Cut by 2020
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has pledged to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020, compared to its 2008 levels.
Kaiser produced ...
ABB to Supply Onboard DC Grid to Shipowner
Power and automation technology group ABB has won an order from ship owner Myklebusthaug Management to supply the first direct current power grid on board ...
Daimler Trucks Compliant with 2014 GHG Regulations
The EPA has certified Daimler Trucks North America's complete 2013 portfolio of on-highway, vocational and medium duty vehicles as fully compliant with 2014 greenhouse gas ...
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 ...
