Environmental Management
Top Environmental Services Firms Named
AECOM, AMEC, Arcadis, CH2M Hill, ERM, SAIC and URS lead the US market for environmental services, according to a report from Verdantix.
Green Quadrant ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: EPEAT Registry, ASHRAE 100-2006, UL, WWF
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The EPEAT global environmental rating system for electronics ...
Adidas Carbon Tool Snafu Keeps Data out of Sustainability Report
Adidas missed the chance to include energy, water and carbon metrics in its 2011 sustainability report because of data deviations caused by a new environmental ...
Puma Earns A, Apple Takes Home D in EIRIS Sustainability Rankings
German sportswear manufacturer Puma tops EIRIS' Top 10 Global Sustainability Leaders list while Apple earns a D, in a ranking that sees UK and European ...
1Mt Alberta Carbon Capture Project Hits Buffers
The three major companies involved in a carbon capture initiative in Alberta, Canada have dropped out of the project.
TransAlta Corp., Enbridge Inc. and Capital Power ...
Coca-Cola, Vodafone, Marks & Spencer Win Environmental Reporting Awards
Coca-Cola Enterprises has won the top honor in the CR Reporting Awards 2011, taking home the Best Report award for its corporate responsibility ...
VF Corporation’s Letitia Webster Talks Sustainability
Letitia Webster, director of global corporate sustainability at VF Corporation, delivers the keynote address at the 2012 Social Enterprise Symposium.
Walmart Sustainability Report: Supplier Scorecards to Launch in 100 Categories this Year
Walmart expects to develop supplier scorecards in up to 100 major product categories by the end of this year, in the latest stage of ...
The Sustainability Consortium’s Sustainability Measurement & Reporting System
The Sustainability Consortium is developing a standardized framework for the communication of sustainability-related information throughout the product value chain. Here's a ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Carbon Trust Standard, CEMARS, Net Zero Energy Building, ISO 50001, LEED
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
Samsung Electronics has earned the Carbon Trust Standard ...
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, ...
Client Energy Intensity Drops 8% in 2 Years, Ecova Says
Businesses' energy intensity - measured by kWh per square foot - declined by 8 percent from Q1 2009 to Q3 2011, according to customer ...
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, ...
Dystar Launches Textile Industry Supply Chain Tools
DyStar Textile Services has launched a range of programs designed to help audit and recommend sustainable options for the textile industry supply chain.
DyStar's Sustainable Textile Service ...
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 ...
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, ...
Walmart Accused of Greenwashing
Walmart's heavily-promoted sustainability initiatives have done more to improve the company's image than to help the environment, according to research by the nonprofit Institute for Local ...
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 ...
Six Surprising Sustainability Facts
1. Fuel efficient cars would eliminate North American Oil Imports
If every car in North America got the same fuel ...
Voluntary Carbon Offset Programs Gathering Steam
With the future of an international climate agreement still in flux, governments worldwide are turning to voluntary carbon offsetting markets to engage private sector climate ...
