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Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
Technology firm Texas Instruments' emissions normalized on a per-chip basis rose 23 percent year-on-year amid a host of other disappointing environmental figures, according to its ...
Alcoa Sustainability Report: 4.5% Drop in Water Intensity, but Landfilling up 10%
Last year saw aluminum products supplier Alcoa cut its normalized water use by 4.5 percent from 2010 levels, but increase the amount of waste it ...
Accenture: 44% of Senior Execs say Sustainability ‘Critical’ to Business
Forty-four percent of senior executives say that sustainability is critical to their businesses, according to an Accenture report, and that figure rises to 64 ...
San Francisco 49ers Buy Low-CO2 Concrete for New Stadium
Central Concrete, a US Concrete company, will supply about 80,000 cubic yards of its low-CO2 concrete for the new San Francisco 49ers stadium, ...
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.
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Water Tech Market for Food and Drink to ‘Almost Double’ by 2020
The global water technology market in the food and beverage sector is set to almost double in size by 2020 as concerns over water scarcity ...
Submetering Market ‘Will Grow to $1.5B in 2020′
The worldwide market for submetering technology and services totals $771 million and will grow to $1.58 billion in 2020 at a compound ...
Intel Sustainability Report: Tech Giant Commits to 10% GHG Cut
Intel has pledged to reduce its direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on a per-chip basis by 2020 compared to 2010 levels, and announced ...
Sustainable Architectural Coatings ‘Will Grow Market Share’
Consumer awareness, government regulations and the widespread acceptance of energy efficiency standards for buildings are driving the development of ...
Mining Industry ‘to Spend $20bn on Renewable Energy and Conservation by 2020′
Worldwide investment by the mining industry in renewable energy and energy conservation will reach about $8.4 billion by 2016 and nearly $20 billion ...
International Paper Expects to Meet 12 Sustainability Goals by 2020
International Paper has outlined 12 voluntary sustainability goals that it expects to meet by the end of the decade, including a 15 ...
Ericsson Sustainability Report: Direct Carbon Intensity Drops 6%
Direct emissions from telecommunications firm Ericsson's in-house activities totaled around 0.84 Mtonnes during 2011. This corresponds to a six percent reduction in direct emissions intensity ...
Steel Plants Could Provide 20 MW of ‘Green’ Thermal Energy
Steel plants located just outside Sheffield's city center could be connected to the UK city's existing district heating network (pictured) to provide ...
NREL Model Improves Predictions of Shade Effects on Solar PV
Using microinverters instead of typical string inverters can improve solar panels' performance in shade by more than 12 percent, according to a new National Renewable ...
Cafedirect Using Carbon Credits to Fund Green Coffee
Cafedirect - the UK's largest fair trade hot drink supplier - is using the carbon market to fund adaptation projects that, in turn, support the ...
Telecom Industry to Shift More Capital to Energy Efficiency
The telecom service industry will invest more than 61 percent of its capital expenditures into sustainable infrastructure by 2016, representing a ...
Current Wastewater Methods Fail to Protect Public from Frack Water, NRDC Says
Hydraulic fracturing's huge output of polluted wastewater is putting drinking water supplies, rivers, streams, and groundwater at risk, primarily because state and federal regulations have ...
EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ‘Costly’ and ‘Time-Consuming’ for Coal Plants
Compliance with the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) poses "significant challenges" for coal plants, forcing many to retire rather than make the ...
CVS Sustainability Report: Carbon Intensity Drops 3.9%
Pharmacy chain CVS Caremark's absolute CO2 emissions rose 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2011, but when rationalized against the square feet of retail space the ...
Excessive Water Use ‘Threatening Business in Major Economies’
Unsustainable water use is threatening agriculture, other business and populations in China, India and the US, according to a study by risk analysis company Maplecroft....
