http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:59 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69535 NSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through four, defining progressively safer chemicals, one for chemicals of high concern and four for a chemical with low hazard, allowing for hazard reduction and potential substitution, NSF said. The Global [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:50:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69458 California’s On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 14,000 pounds. The regulation requires installation of PM retrofits for heavier trucks beginning January 2012, and replacement of older [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68164 The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on Enbridge’s proposed $5.4 billion Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline for its potential impact on fishing and traditional life on the Pacific Coast. The pipeline would move 525,000 barrels of oil [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/pillow-renovation-helps-hilton-concord-go-green/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/pillow-renovation-helps-hilton-concord-go-green/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:57:07 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67568 The Hilton Concord hotel in the San Francisco Bay Area is incorporating environmentally friendly systems, including such innovations as a low temperature dishwasher and “pillow renovation,” into a refit. The pillow renovation system uses the Pillow Vac system to sterilize and renovate most of its pillows ready for reuse, reducing the number of discarded pillows. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/28/pillow-renovation-helps-hilton-concord-go-green/feed/ 4 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:06:53 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67308 FedEx will provide $1.4 million over two years to EMBARQ – the World Resources Institute’s sustainable transport arm – to provide technical expertise on sustainable transportation projects in cities in Mexico, Brazil and India. This grant is a continuation of FedEx’s collaboration with EMBARQ’s Center for Sustainable Transport in Mexico, which began in February 2010 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/fedex-to-fund-transportation-projects-in-mexico-brazil-india/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-navy-purchases-biofuel-gulf-coast-task-force/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-navy-purchases-biofuel-gulf-coast-task-force/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:55:21 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66340 Durban: The world’s biggest polluters -China, the United States and India - remain firmly against a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions. The nations want to put off a commitment on binding cuts until 2015 – until after the publication of additional scientific review on the effects of climate change and a chance [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/07/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-navy-purchases-biofuel-gulf-coast-task-force/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-eu-aviation-regulation-boiler-mact-clean-air-act/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-eu-aviation-regulation-boiler-mact-clean-air-act/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:25:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66088 Durban: The draft plan for the United Nations Green Climate Fund - a financing system that would deliver $100 billion a year in aid to developing nations to fight climate change – faces an uphill battle after envoys from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Venezuela voiced concerns about the document. According to Bloomberg, governance of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-cop-17-durban-eu-aviation-regulation-boiler-mact-clean-air-act/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/15/airline-sustainability-reports-need-improvement-pwc-says/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/15/airline-sustainability-reports-need-improvement-pwc-says/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:48:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65219 Southwest Airlines, UPS, Delta, Air France KLM, Iberia, LAN Airlines and Lufthansa produced the best sustainability reports by airlines last year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis. Building Trust in the Air (pdf) rated all seven reports as “good,” meaning they scored 61 to 80 percent of possible points. No reports were “excellent,” which PwC defined [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/15/airline-sustainability-reports-need-improvement-pwc-says/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/software-briefing-atos-pairs-with-sap-greenstone-updates-acco2unt-1es-nightwatchman/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/software-briefing-atos-pairs-with-sap-greenstone-updates-acco2unt-1es-nightwatchman/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:40:03 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65163 International IT services company Atos will use SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management application to manage its sustainability performance, the companies announced at the SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Madrid conference. Atos plans to roll out the sustainability reporting to sites across 42 countries in early 2012, and will offer the SAP service to its customers [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/software-briefing-atos-pairs-with-sap-greenstone-updates-acco2unt-1es-nightwatchman/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/11/fed-agencies-ordered-to-cut-travel-printing-it-20/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/11/fed-agencies-ordered-to-cut-travel-printing-it-20/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:00:44 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65082 President Obama heralded a program that has saved the Commerce Department $1.8 million off its cell phone bills, as he directed agencies to shrink their travel, printing and IT spending by 20 percent by fiscal year 2013. Obama signed an executive order, “Promoting Efficient Spending,” encouraging agencies to limit executive transportation and come up with [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/11/fed-agencies-ordered-to-cut-travel-printing-it-20/feed/ 3