Industrial Goods
Heavy Industries Not Likely to Bolt Over Cap and Trade
Heavy industries likely will not pull up shop and head overseas if the U.S. implements a cap and trade system for carbon emissions, as the Obama ...
PPG's Carbon Emissions Fall, Ozone-depleting Emissions Rise
PPG, a global supplier of paints, coatings, chemicals, optical products, specialty materials, glass and fiber glass, reduced nitrogen dioxide emissions by 5 percent and particulate ...
Invista Settles With EPA, Violation Fixes Will Cost $500M
After self-reporting environmental violations at 12 facilities in seven states, Invista will spend up to $500 million to correct the problems, on top of a $1.7 ...
EPA May Classify Carbon Dioxide as a Pollutant
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, a move that may have far-reaching impacts on ...
When Scaling Back Production, Energy Cost Per Unit Spirals Upward Without Careful Planning
Without reducing fixed energy cost, a company that scales back manufacturing and other operations will actually see increased energy costs as a percentage of total expenditures.
A ...
Alcoa Ahead of Schedule on Reducing Emissions
Alcoa, the world's leading producer of aluminum, continues to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its global aluminum production processes, the company announced.
Using their 1990 ...
Foreign Pressure Driving China’s “Green Ink” Industry
Pitney Bowes Reclaims 1 Million+ Pounds of Equipment in 2008
Pitney Bowes says it has recovered nearly 1.1 million pounds of U.S. equipment and parts in 2008 for recycling or remanufacturing.
Pitney ...
Chemical Industry Focuses on Energy Efficiency
Even with a growing recession, the chemical industry is continuing to focus on energy management and efficiency, according to ChemicalProcessing.com. A recent survey by AspenTech of Burlington, Massachusetts finds ...
UL Offers Environmental Claims Verification Service
Underwriters Laboratories, well known for testing product safety, has launched a new unit, UL Environment Inc to verify green claims made by manufacturers.
The company says they will work with manufacturers ...
Absolute Steel Refocuses Marketing Efforts on Green Products
Absolute Steel, a government contractor of steel building materials, has redesigned their marketing campaign in an effort to highlight their green products.
In the past few years, the company has ...
CO2 Cuts in U.S. Steel Industry Surpass Kyoto Protocol
The U.S. Steel industry has reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by about 33 percent since 1990 - an improvement on the 29-percent reduction reported in 2006, according ...
Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories
With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...
CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals
The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College released new Pacific Sustainability Index scores on the environmental and social reporting for the financial, electronics and metals sectors. ...
Corus Denies Plans To Move European Operations To China
Corus Group Ltd., the U.K. unit of India's Tata Steel Ltd., said newspaper reports that it may move operations to China unless European carbon emissions rules are overhauled are false.
The company's spokesman ...
Glass Container Industry Pledges To Use 50% Recycled Glass By 2013
Members of the Glass Packaging Institute have agreed to use at least 50 percent recycled glass in the manufacture of new glass bottles and jars by 2013.
GPI estimates that energy savings ...
Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target
The Aluminum Association is working on an industry wide effort to increase the industry’s recycling rate for used aluminum beverage cans to 75% by 2015. This is the same percentage Alcoa announced as ...
IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%
IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of 3.5 percent energy saving and cut 3.8 percent of its total energy use. ...
EPA Tightens Allowable Lead Levels, First Time In 30 Years
World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report
