Environmental Compliance
Environmental compliance is the adherence to environmental laws, regulations and standards. These stories include environmental enforcement stories on key environmental enforcement news. Also included are stories on the government’s regulatory intervention and proposed government regulation on the environment.
University of Texas Taps Locus’ ePortal for Compliance
The University of Texas at El Paso has selected software company Locus Technologies' ePortal platform to provide an integrated system for monitoring and managing its ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: G8 Summit, Wastewater Treatment, Electricity Capacity Prices
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
President Obama and G8 Summit world leaders ...
The Many Moving Pieces of California’s Cap and Trade Program
The calendar says May 2012, so what does that mean for California's attempts to implement a first-in-the-nation, economy-wide Cap and Trade Program? ...
Going Beyond Compliance: Best-in-Class Environmental Performance
Join Environmental Leader on Wednesday, May 23rd, 8am Pacific/11am Eastern for a webinar discussing how to reach beyond environment, health and safety regulations ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: LA Feed-in-Tariff, Solyndra Review, Coal Mining, EU ETS, Offshore Wind Lawsuit
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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Registrations, EPA Delays, BPA in Packaging
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 13 items.
The EPA approved the first applications for ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Blocks Activists; BP Funds, Iran, Great Lakes Wind
Shell has won an injunction, issued by a federal district court in Alaska, expanding the scope of an earlier restraining order that blocked Greenpeace activists ...
LGR Introduces New Industrial Emissions Analyzer
Los Gatos Research says its new analyzer is the first to enable comprehensive monitoring of industrial combustion processes for greenhouse gas emissions compliance. Specifically, ...
Adidas, General Mills Drop Off ‘Most Ethical’ List; Kellogg’s, Hasbro, Alcoa Join
Starbucks, Patagonia and General Electric are among the 23 companies that have been named for six years running to Ethisphere's Most Ethical Companies list, ...
Coke Wastewater Straining City Resources, Officials Claim
Wastewater from a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Northampton, Mass., is becoming costly for public facilities to treat, leading the city to investigate revisions to treatment ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: International Water Stewardship, Federal GHG Reporting, ZigBee, LEED, Greenroads
The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) released the first draft of its International Water Stewardship Standard at the World Water Forum in ...
AECOM Launches Costing Software for Remediation Projects
Aecom has released the newest version of its Remedial Action Cost Engineering and Requirements, or Racer, software - a cost-estimating program developed for environmental ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety Rules, Ohio Fracking Law
Coal-reliant Poland vetoed a European Union roadmap for cutting the bloc's carbon emissions by 80 percent by mid-century. All 26 other EU countries supported the ...
Fracking Industry May Lack Will to Avoid Environmental Impacts, Report Finds
The natural gas industry is technologically capable of tapping shale gas resources, but some companies may have trouble managing the environmental and social risks involved, ...
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: Keystone XL, Australia Carbon Tax, EU ETS Permit Supply, U.S. GHG Report
The White House backed TransCanada Corp.'s bid to build a major portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline - a $2.3 billion section called Gulf ...
Aerodynamics, CARB Standards Drive Transportation Product Launches
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) trailer fuel efficiency mandates which require 5 percent and above fuel efficiency gains were a focus of products launched ...
ExxonMobil Fined $4.4m for Under-Reporting Carbon Emissions
ExxonMobil was fined £2.8 million ($4.4 million) after failing to report carbon emissions from a Scottish chemical plant, it has emerged.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency ...
Wastewater Snowmaking Gets Legal OK
Ski resort Arizona Snowbowl has avoided legal censure for its reuse of human wastewater to make snow.
The resort, located 14 miles outside Flagstaff, Ariz., is ...
California’s Climate Change Laboratory: AB 32
"It is one of the happy accidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens ...
