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Todd Brady, Intel’s global public affairs and sustainability director, discusses managing water for high-tech operations.
Tyson Foods says sustainability will play a key role in the company's strategy and will be one element that will help the company reach an expected sales growth of about 6% next year. Blockchain technology, which allows the company to track its supply chain each step of the way and pinpoint any unsustainable practices, is already in use.
Energy efficiency changes that include two new cogenerators installed at a wastewater treatment plant in Las Cruces, New Mexico, are expected to help save the city $1.4 million annually. The $4.9 million cogeneration project will generate power from methane gas at the Jacob A. Hands Wastewater Treatment Facility, according to ... Read more »
Hurricane Irma battered Florida over the weekend with heavy rain, storm surges, extreme wind, and possibly even tornadoes. As of 7 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, more than 3.2 million customers in the state were without power, Edison Electric Institute president Tom Kuhn said in a storm update. This morning, ... Read more »
President Trump recently announced his nomination of energy industry attorney William Wehrum to the position of EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation. Wehrum is currently head of the administrative law group and a partner at the Richmond, Virginia-based firm Hunton & Williams LP. The president’s nomination ... Read more »
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's decision to delay the Risk Management Plan rule to ensure safety provisions at chemical plants is under sharp critique in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Uber drivers in London must use electric or hybrid vehicles in coming years. The company will give financial assistance to its drivers to get new cars, but customers will also be asked to pay.
Emergency generators and additional back-up systems at the Arkema plant in Crosby, TX, are now known to have both failed during flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey last week, and the first lawsuit over the event has been filed. In all, a million pounds of air pollutants were released in storm-tossed Texas from refineries and petrochemical operations; Bloomberg warns that effects
Leaders in sustainability continually work to understand and track how materials flow through their facilities, how to redesign products for a minimum of wasted material, and how to ultimately reach zero waste. TRUE zero waste rating system from GBCI says it that helps companies do just that.
The global market for LEDs will increase at a compound annual growth rate of more than 18% this year until 2021, the market research firm Technavio forecasts. At that rate, the market would go from $18.51 billion in 2016 to $43.18 billion in 2021, Semiconductor Today reported. For their analysis, ... Read more »
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Two important notes before you head off for the weekend: Check out our Leaders Leading section to learn more about the "shaker-uppers" in sustainability management. And we've opened up the nomination process for the 2018 EL50 Honorees! These are the folks with the ideas, the ones making things happen, so make sure you get your nomination in by...
The days of making energy efficient changes to data centers in bits and pieces are on their way out, an industry expert says. Instead, data center operators are having conversations about energy efficient design much earlier in the planning process, Erich Hamilton, the director of engineering for the data center ... Read more »
More than 40% of the 38 megawatts of new energy storage installed in the US during the second quarter of this year was in homes and businesses compared to 9% in the first quarter, Reuters reported. The relatively small energy storage market is growing rapidly, driven by lower costs for ... Read more »
In situations where the revenues of public companies are larger than the GDPs of the countries in which they operate, these companies may exert tremendous influence over the local political and legislative process. This creates risks and opportunities which are critical inputs into investment decisions...
Global investors are exploring ways to integrate ESG factors into their investments, and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices help investors evaluate the world's largest companies in terms of their sustainability. Additions to this year's list include Samsung and British American Tobacco, while companies dropped from the list include...
According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the average costs associated with delivering electricity to customers has risen over the past decade, even though electricity generation costs have decreased. As eia.gov reports, electricity delivery costs have increased in real 2016 dollar terms from 2.2 cents per kilowatthour (kWh) in 2006 ... Read more »
“Project Legacy” at Colombia’s Universidad EAN will oversee the construction of a 215,278 square-foot building that is slated to achieve LEED Gold certification while also featuring repurposed, recycled and reused materials. The most prominent feature of the building is the McDonough-designed WonderFrame™ shade structure, a reusable/recyclable space-frame-like fabrication. The WonderFrame ... Read more »
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is now available in Illinois for commercial properties. This year, SB1700 – HB2831 successfully passed committees and just last month the Illinois governor signed it into law. According to dailyherald.com, “The introduction of PACE in Illinois will help spur more energy efficient projects within the ... Read more »
In an effort to appeal to its customers and to help maintain the objectives of the Paris climate accord, candy company Mars Inc. says that it will enforce its own greenhouse gas emissions goals across its supply chain.
Every nonwovens producer is now claiming sustainability (though there are varying degrees of certified progress). In coming days, sustainable nonwovens will continue to take market share. Should you be pressuring your suppliers to get onboard?
Hurricane Harvey left parts of the south flooded, ravaged and without power. It also left behind millions of pounds of industrial pollution. According to cnn.com, since the storm made landfall August 25, “more than 5 million pounds of air pollutants have been released beyond the normally permitted emissions.” Unfortunately, the ... Read more »
Facebook has announced that it will begin recycling heat generated from its data centers. The residual heat will be used to warm nearby homes. The social media giant says its stable of servers in Odense, Denmark will connect to a neighborhood district heating system. The company expects the heat will ... Read more »
Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center's energy engineer knew the campus's chiller plants were efficient, but he believed they could be improved. By optimizing the chiller plants across the campus, the center ensured they were running at peak efficiency, saving electricity costs, using less water, and reducing emissions. In fact, annual energy savings were found to be...
Colorado College’s new library was constructed with everything needed to become LEED certified. In a rare move, however, the school passed on the certification, citing costs. The amount of certification fees depends on the size of the project — typically 10%, but ranging from 5-15% of the project costs. Administrators ... Read more »
Ryan McMullan tells Environmental Leader's readers about Toyota's challenges and how the company solves them. He also predicts the biggest challenges YOU will face in the next few years, and how you might address them.