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Alcoa Inks Hydropower Contract
Alcoa reached an agreement with Chelan PUD on Monday, on a new hydropower contract to supply its Wenatchee, Washington aluminum smelter through 2028. The new contract begins when the existing one expires in ...
EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules
Importers and exporters can now visit a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website for information on laws governing the import and export of materials that may pose a risk to human health ...
Efficiency = Economics For HK’s Textile Industry
WWF and a small number of factory owners in Hong Kong and southern China are developing a carbon labeling system to measure how effective factories have been in reducing CO2 emissions, AFP ...
Greenpeace Co-Founder Opposes Former Colleagues On PVC
In an op-ed published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace who is now chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies in Vancouver, disagrees with his former ...
New Jersey Mandates New Regs For Chemical Plants
New Jersey environmental officials have mandated regular reviews for safety upgrades at the 89 most dangerous chemical plants, oil refineries, water treatment plants and industrial facilities in the state, The Associated Press ...
Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal to source $232 million of carbon credits with a market value of about ...
Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines
The Canadian province of Alberta received $25 million less from carbon-emissions fines in the past eight months than it expected, the Edmunton Journal reports. This means large industrial emitters are cutting their ...
Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts
Not too long ago, Norway announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2030. Now, it's becoming apparent that imaginative accounting and donations to environmental projects abroad, rather than meaningful emissions reductions, ...
Involving Stakeholders in Measuring Sustainability Performance
In the remote fjords of east Iceland, a partnership between Alcoa, its electrical supplier Landsvirkjun, and various stakeholder groups helped ensure a new aluminum smelter and related hydroelectric facility would balance the environmental, social, ...
Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), plans to hold a hearing on allegations that the White House intervened to water down new ...
BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports – Emissions Up 10%
BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company's financial and sustainability reporting in a single publication. The combination of financial and sustainability reporting has been ...
ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair
Lawyers for steel giant ArcelorMittal have told Europe's highest court that there's no justification for EU lawmakers to exclude the aluminum and chemical industries from 2003 legislation that capped CO2 emissions ...
(Dis)Orders of Magnitude
Human beings are good at numbers, but only within a small range. Most of us can imagine how big "One Hundred" is, and even have pretty good sense of "One Thousand." But if ...
DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million
DuPont Titanium Technologies says it has cut its energy consumption per pound of product by nearly 30 percent - saving more than $100 million in the process as oil prices hover ...
Cement Plant To Cut Mercury Emissions 75%
Ash Grove Cement near Baker City in Oregon, the largest source of mercury pollution in the state, has reached a voluntary deal with regulators to cut its mercury emissions by 75 ...
NewPage Sweats Out Global Warming Bill
The Global Warming Solutions Act being considered in Maryland would require businesses across the state to cut their average emissions of pollutants that cause global warming by 25 percent by 2020 and ...
Aluminum Industry Struggles To Meet Emissions Targets
The aluminum industry is struggling to meet its own voluntary targets to cut direct greenhouse gas emissions from its production processes by 2010, Reuters reports. One of the International Aluminum Institute's voluntary ...
West Virginia Alloys Will Recycle Energy To Power Silicon Plant
West Virginia Alloys, a subsidiary of Globe Metallurgical, the country's largest silicon producer, has contracted Recycled Energy Development to build an electricity-generation system that captures hot gases coming from silicon furnaces to ...
California Considers Emissions Tax
In what could be a U.S. first, California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District is proposing to charge an annual tax to businesses based on emissions, the Mercury News reports.All ...
Pilot Pen Launches Green Line
Pilot Pen Corporation has unveiled a line of earth-friendly writing instruments dubbed BeGreen. Pilot says that the products, which include ballpoint pens, rolling balls pens and mechanical pencils, will sell for the ...
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