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California EPA Releases Green Chemistry Initiative
California's EPA recently released the state's landmark Green Chemistry Initiative (PDF), which focuses on encouraging or mandating manufacturers to develop chemicals that are less poisonous and degrade more quickly in the ...
‘Environmental Fugitives’ List Launched By EPA
A new EPA Web site includes photos of fugitives accused of violating environmental laws and evading arrest. The site includes summaries of their alleged environmental violations, and information on each fugitive’s ...
U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report – Big Move To LEED Standards
The U.S. Army released a 2007 Sustainability Report (PDF) and reported that in FY 2007, 301 of new Army military construction projects, or 78 percent of projects, were designed to LEED ...
E-Waste Recycler Refutes Damaging ‘Electronic Wasteland’ Report
Colorado e-waste recycler Executive Recycling markets itself as recycling e-waste in the U.S. in an environmentally correct way, but according to a 60 Minutes investigation, The Electronic Wasteland, the company actually ships some ...
Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact
Goodrich Corp. announced its Tullahoma facility has made improvements to reduce the facility's environmental impact. Some of the improvements include: -- Reducing hazardous waste from 35,000 pounds a year to zero -- Decreasing energy ...
UK Lighting Industry Violates eWaste Laws
Despite an official warning from the government last August, manufacturers and wholesalers of fluorescent lamps in the UK continue to impose a 16p (about 28 cents) per unit charge on customers to cover compliance costs ...
Greenpeace: Less Toxic iPod Nano Rocks
Apple has introduced the new fourth generation iPod nano, which CEO Steve Jobs says is the the "cleanest," and most "toxic-free" iPod that Apple has ever built. The new iPod nano ...
Samsung Criticized for Lack of Recycling Programs
The Electronics TakeBack Coalition has launched a marketing campaign attacking Samsung for not taking environmental responsibility to recycle old electronics that may contain toxic metals, Media Post reports. The campaign aims ...
Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings
In the 8th edition of "Guide to Greener Electronics" published by Greenpeace, only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 50 percent in the organization's rankings of companies based on their ...
Home Depot Says It Will Save $16 Million By Switching To CFLs
Home Depot has announced (PDF) a free in-store, consumer CFL bulb recycling program at all of its 1,973 stores in the U.S. It also announced that it expects to save $16 million ...
Vendors Should Highlight Cost Savings Of Green IT
GreenFactor's recent survey of IT decision makers found that more than 70 percent would either "'probably' or ‘definitely'" increase their preference for a brand's green products if they were convinced ...
Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals
More hospitals are discovering the economic and environmental benefits of greening their operations, Nurse.com reports. Hospitals face fines beginning at $40,000 per day if pharmaceuticals are not recycled n compliance with requirements ...
EPEAT Reports Large Environmental And Financial Benefits
Worldwide sales of EPEAT products have increased 150 percent since 2006, when the EPEAT system was first introduced, and totaled more than 109 million individual units, according to the Green Electronics ...
Lenovo Launches Asset Recovery Service
Lenovo is joining the growing number of companies offering asset recovery services to help cut down on e-waste. Lenovo Asset Recovery Services is designed to help businesses in the U.S. and Canada ...
Dell Recycles 100M+ Pounds Of E-Waste, First With 80 Plus Silver Certification
Dell reported recovery of 102 million pounds of IT equipment from customers during 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006, its largest single-year product recycling volume. Dell also announced that it is ...
Best Buy Expands Electronics Recycling
Best Buy has launched a test of its newest electronics recycling program to in 117 U.S. stores in the Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota areas. Under the program customers may bring in ...
Dow Ordered To Clean Up Neighborhood Downstream From Headquarters
The EPA has ordered Dow Chemical to clean up high levels of dioxin in homes and yards downstream from its world headquarters in Saginaw, Mich., the Chicago Tribune reports. The EPA found dioxin levels in ...
Maersk Reports Emissions Reductions From Vessels
In its Environmental Report 2007, A.P. Moller-Maersk Group says it achieved a decrease in fuel for its container vessels of nine percent, which corresponds to a total reduction in CO2 emissions ...
Boeing Points To Improved Environmental Performance
Boeing says that energy use and carbon dioxide emissions at its major facilities fell 24 percent between 2002 and 2007. In its 2008 Environment Report (PDF), Boeing says that, through the integration of environmental ...
EPA Releases ‘2008 Report On The Environment’
The EPA has released its 2008 Report on the Environment, which the agency says uses scientific indicators to measure and report on overall progress toward protecting the environment and human health. The EPA 2008 ...
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miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
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Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
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Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
"A point of clarification: the Reuters press release referenced herein reports that 20 UPS will purchase..."