December 2011 - Page 4 of 17 - Environment + Energy Leader

EU Aviation Directive Challenge Quashed

December 22, 2011December 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

United/Continental Airlines and American Airlines have failed in an attempt to block a European Union law charging airlines flying to the continent for their carbon pollution. The airlines and their trade association, Air Transport Association of America – now known as Airlines for America – had challenged the legality of ... Read more »

EPA Issues Power Plant Mercury Rules

December 22, 2011December 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

The EPA has issued requirements to control mercury and other toxic air emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants – what it calls the largest unregulated industrial sources of hazardous air pollution in the United States. Under the new, much-delayed rules, power plants will be required to install pollution controls ... Read more »

McDonald’s Works to Mainstream Sustainability Across Global Supply Chain

December 22, 2011December 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

McDonald has released its 2011 Global Sustainability Scorecard, indicating its progress to improving healthy eating choices on its menu (with fruit) but also its progress toward a measurably sustainable supply chain. The scorecard reviews the company’s progress in five priority areas — nutrition and wellbeing, sustainable supply chain, environmental responsibility, ... Read more »

Four New Year’s Resolutions for Greener CPGs

December 22, 2011December 22, 2011 by Jeff Sharfstein

As 2011 draws to a close and we begin to shift our focus to the coming year, it is inevitable that there will be talk of New Year’s resolutions, and how we plan to build on our accomplishments in 2012. If you’re working for or with a company that occupies ... Read more »

PPG Low-E Glass Doubles Savings

December 22, 2011 by Leon Walker

Triple-silver-coated, low-emissivity glass can save a building twice as much in annual energy savings than its double-silver-coated equivalent, according to research by manufacturer PPG Industries. Speaking at a conference at the University of Southern California, Chuck McMullen, national architectural manager for PPG Industries used the example of a prototype window-walled, ... Read more »

PwC’s Take on COP17 and Durban

December 22, 2011December 21, 2011 by Paul Nastu

PwC’s take on the UN climate change summit in Durban which resulted in: – The launch of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, “to develop a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change applicable to all Parties.” ... Read more »

National Landmark Building, U.S. Treasury Building, Earns LEED Gold

December 22, 2011December 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

The 19th-century U.S. Treasury Building – a National Historic Landmark neighboring the White House – was awarded LEED Gold certification. The USGBC believes that the Treasury Building is the oldest building in the world to receive LEED certification, the Department of the Treasury said. The certification adds more than eight billion ... Read more »

Sustainable Packaging Briefing: Defra Recycling Targets, Polyden Folien, Cardia Bioplastics, Seattle Bag Ban

December 22, 2011June 18, 2013 by Leon Walker

The UK Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has introduced proposals for tougher packaging recycling targets to stop 400,000 tons going to landfill by 2017. The proposal includes: increasing the plastics recycling target by five percent per year, from 32 percent to 57 percent by 2017; increasing the aluminum recycling ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: ISO 50001, ISO 14001, Mexican Sustainability Index, LEED, FSC

December 22, 2011June 18, 2013 by Leon Walker

Bureau Veritas has issued the world’s first ISO 50001 certification for a shipping company. This was awarded to Stena’s ship management division, Northern Marine Management, including Northern Marine Management (USA). The U.S. facility achieved certification to BS ISO 50001. Northern Marine implemented its first shipboard energy management plans onto Stena ... Read more »

Veolia, Others Using Carbon Footprint ‘Game’ to Set Bonuses

December 21, 2011December 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

A number of companies in the U.K. including waste management firm Veolia are using a computer program to base staff bonuses on their carbon footprint, reports PSFK. Suitability Momentum – or SuMo – by CloudApps can accurately monitor an employee’s carbon footprint, with particular emphasis on their recycling and energy ... Read more »

FedEx to Fund Transportation Projects in Mexico, Brazil, India

December 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

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, ... Read more »

Opening Solyndra’s Box: Entrepreneurship, and Energy

December 21, 2011December 20, 2011 by Paul Nastu

Patrick Von Bargen provides strategic counsel to a wide variety of QGA’s energy clients, primarily in the clean technology space, including solar, wind, recycling, and biomass. He also represents startup firms using venture capital to develop clean energy technology. He has an acute understanding of the various, complex aspects of ... Read more »

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