http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/10/gao-report-finds-feds-not-always-managing-own-e-waste-responsibly/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/10/gao-report-finds-feds-not-always-managing-own-e-waste-responsibly/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 14:00:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76178 A report, “Electronic Waste: Actions Needed to Provide Assurance That Used Federal Electronics Are Disposed of in an Environmentally Responsible Manner,” released in March from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that federal agencies still have a long way to go in managing their own e-waste responsibly. Interestingly, problems identified in the report are ones [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/10/gao-report-finds-feds-not-always-managing-own-e-waste-responsibly/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/standards-compliance-briefing-leed-energy-star-sfi-erecyclingcorps-ieee/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/standards-compliance-briefing-leed-energy-star-sfi-erecyclingcorps-ieee/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:45:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75159 Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes nine items. Brookfield Canada Office Properties said that its Exchange Tower (pictured) in Toronto has achieved LEED Gold EB:OM certification. Features and practices of the building include sustainable commuting tools, green cleaning and waste management, and sustainable purchasing policies, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/standards-compliance-briefing-leed-energy-star-sfi-erecyclingcorps-ieee/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/standards-compliance-briefing-green-squared-chain-of-custody-suppliers-declaration-of-conformity-weee/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/standards-compliance-briefing-green-squared-chain-of-custody-suppliers-declaration-of-conformity-weee/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:50:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74654 Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes eight items. Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) has certified its first tile manufacturers to the flooring industry’s new Green Squared certification standard. Certifications were awarded to tile manufactured by Crossville Inc., Interceramic Inc., and Metropolitan Ceramics by Ironrock. SCS said [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/standards-compliance-briefing-green-squared-chain-of-custody-suppliers-declaration-of-conformity-weee/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/consumer-electronics-firms-upped-recycling-by-53-in-2011/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/consumer-electronics-firms-upped-recycling-by-53-in-2011/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:30:30 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74362 Members of the consumer electronics industry’s eCycling Leadership Initiative – including Apple, Best Buy, Dell and HP – increased the amount of goods they recycled by 53 percent in 2011, according to trade body The Consumer Electronics Association. In 2011, participants of the eCycling Leadership Initiative recycled 460 million pounds of consumer electronics, up from [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/consumer-electronics-firms-upped-recycling-by-53-in-2011/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/12/hp-staples-offer-free-e-recycling/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/12/hp-staples-offer-free-e-recycling/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:25:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74069 Hewlett-Packard and office products retailer Staples have teamed up to offer free electronics recycling for all brands of office technology at Staples stores nationwide. Small businesses and consumers can drop off used computers, cell phones, MP3 players, fax machines and similar items at any Staples store, regardless of where they were purchased, for HP to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/12/hp-staples-offer-free-e-recycling/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/lg-joins-epas-green-power-partnership-with-100-green-energy-use-at-hq/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/lg-joins-epas-green-power-partnership-with-100-green-energy-use-at-hq/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:20:43 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73508 LG Electronics USA is purchasing more than 1.5 million kWh of green power over the next 18 months in cooperation with the EPA’s Green Power Partnership program, the company said. LG said it will by enough green power products from BlueStar Energy to provide 100 percent of electricity use for its Englewood Cliffs, N.J., headquarters [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/lg-joins-epas-green-power-partnership-with-100-green-energy-use-at-hq/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/27/standards-compliance-briefing-ashrae-guideline-32-cool-planet-e-stewards-greenguard-fsc/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/27/standards-compliance-briefing-ashrae-guideline-32-cool-planet-e-stewards-greenguard-fsc/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:39:10 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72870 ASHRAE’s newly published Guideline 32-2012: Sustainable, High Performance Operation and Maintenance aims to give facility managers guidance on operation and maintenance of buildings to meet low environmental life cycle costs. The $69 publication contains recommendations for three levels of building oversight: senior managers, facility managers and technicians, ASHRAE said. Southern California Edison (SCE) and The [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/27/standards-compliance-briefing-ashrae-guideline-32-cool-planet-e-stewards-greenguard-fsc/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:49:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72556 The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards do not provide adequate protection from harmful deposition-related effects on plants, soil, water and wildlife, levels of NOx and SOx in the air have fallen by more than 50 percent and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-ptc-china-solar-tariffs-chemical-reporting-india-and-ets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-ptc-china-solar-tariffs-chemical-reporting-india-and-ets/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:55:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72285 New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure dropped out of the payroll tax bill and the transportation bill. The new bill also would extend the renewable energy tax credits for biomass, geothermal, landfill gas, hydropower, marine and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-ptc-china-solar-tariffs-chemical-reporting-india-and-ets/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-superfund-sites-oecd-report-on-ghg-tier-3-standards/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-superfund-sites-oecd-report-on-ghg-tier-3-standards/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:00:23 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=71974 President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement was reached. U.S. officials have said that they will consider all possible measures – including a release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) – to prevent oil prices from affecting the economic [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-superfund-sites-oecd-report-on-ghg-tier-3-standards/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/06/standards-compliance-briefing-basel-and-r2-fuel-economy-greenguard-select-leed-b-corp/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/06/standards-compliance-briefing-basel-and-r2-fuel-economy-greenguard-select-leed-b-corp/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:53:31 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=71291 The Basel Action Network’s e-Stewards Certification for electronics recyclers now includes the earlier EPA-developed R2 (Responsible Recycling) practices. E-Stewards certifications already require adherence to the ISO 14001 standard. All three e-Stewards certifying bodies are accredited for R2 and can add R2 to the e-Stewards audits when conducted at the same time, EMT Worldwide said. The Association of Global [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/06/standards-compliance-briefing-basel-and-r2-fuel-economy-greenguard-select-leed-b-corp/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/01/standards-compliance-briefing-smart-grid-roadmap-energy-star-objections-iso-14001-leed/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/01/standards-compliance-briefing-smart-grid-roadmap-energy-star-objections-iso-14001-leed/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:01:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=70935 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finished incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0, a plan for updating the nation’s electric power system into an interoperable smart grid. The final 2.0 framework adds 22 standards, specifications and guidelines to the 75 standards NIST [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/01/standards-compliance-briefing-smart-grid-roadmap-energy-star-objections-iso-14001-leed/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/23/standards-compliance-briefing-arotech-process-is-nsf-certified-iso-50001-e-stewards-leed-hers/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/23/standards-compliance-briefing-arotech-process-is-nsf-certified-iso-50001-e-stewards-leed-hers/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:08:28 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=70554 APTwater’s ARoTech module used to treat oxidized contaminants in water including nitrate, perchlorate, selenium, and chromium (VI) is now NSF certified. ARoTech water treatment process uses hydrogen-fed biological processes to reduce oxidized contaminants. In addition to the NSF certification, the company’s first full-scale commercial ARoNite plant completed in late 2011, and is now running in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/23/standards-compliance-briefing-arotech-process-is-nsf-certified-iso-50001-e-stewards-leed-hers/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/standards-compliance-briefing-iso-14001-e-stewards-r2-leed/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/standards-compliance-briefing-iso-14001-e-stewards-r2-leed/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:27:29 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69331 U.K.-based sustainable roofing provider International Construction Bureau (ICB) has earned the accreditations ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001, adding to ICB’s ISO 9001, and all three ISO cetifications were awarded to its sister company ICB (Solar) which provides solar PV systems, the company announced. Portland, Ore.-based Iberdrola Renewables announces that its 536-MW gas-fired Klamath Cogeneration Plant [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/standards-compliance-briefing-iso-14001-e-stewards-r2-leed/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/standards-compliance-briefing-rainforest-alliance-leed-certificationsvvv/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/standards-compliance-briefing-rainforest-alliance-leed-certificationsvvv/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:09:42 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69179 Hershey’s says that later this year, U.S. consumers will be able to purchase Hershey’s Bliss products with 100 percent cocoa from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms. The certification addresses environmental protection, social equity and economic viability. Burbank Water and Power (BWP) and AHBE Landscape Architects (AHBE) have announced the completion of the first phase of the revamp [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/standards-compliance-briefing-rainforest-alliance-leed-certificationsvvv/feed/ 0