Watershed Introduces Corporate Climate Disclosures Platform
The product is designed to assist companies in generating high-quality climate disclosures and to meet mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements.
Compliance
The latest news and best practices about environmental compliance, standards and enforcement for commercial and industrial companies, as well as government enforcement and proposals.
EU Climate Policy Reforms Set Conditions for Large Global Manufacturers to Decarbonize
The European Union has cut an ambitious path for climate legislation in 2023. In March, the bloc released the Net-Zero Industry Act, with the goal of increasing green manufacturing capacity and providing greater diversity in the supply chains of key technologies. Now, the EU has approved a rehaul of its ... Read more »
Chemours, DuPont, Corteva, and 3M Linked to Massive PFAS Settlements
The deals would likely keep the companies out of federal court.
Oceanworks Launches Plastic Action Dashboard
The new tool will help organizations with accessing blockchain information, material movement tracking, and impact metrics, allowing for supply chain risk reduction and helping consumers understand companies’ plastic reduction efforts.
Delta Faces Lawsuit Over ‘False’ Carbon Neutrality Claims
This, along with other major corporations that have been recently accused of similar actions, sheds light on how “carbon neutral” is realistically defined.
Debt Ceiling Agreement Includes Mountain Valley Pipeline, Environment Rules Concessions
The compromise would also curtail certain environmental reviews.
G7 Leaders Release Clean Energy Economy Action Plan
The G7 asserts a plan that will make decarbonized industrial production the default business case over time and promotes a circular economy of goods and services.
EPA, Justice Department Make Record Settlement with BP over Hazardous Emissions
The settlement includes the largest civil penalty in a stationary source settlement since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.
Biden Vetoes Reinstatement of Solar Panel Tariffs
Congress had passed legislation to end an executive order on the tariffs on parts from Southeast Asia.
EPA Proposes New Carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants
According to agency's analysis, power companies can implement these standards with negligible impacts on electricity prices, well within the range of historical fluctuations.
DOE Funds Nuclear Energy Projects, Westinghouse Begins SMR Regulatory Process
Some of the projects include integrating hydrogen production as well as beginning to look at future regulations.
EU Parliament Votes to Strengthen Energy Industry Methane Emissions Restrictions
The rules will focus on leaks and mitigation of unused sites and include fossil fuel imports.