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Commercial enterprises are increasingly installing various rainwater harvesting systems for water conservation purposes. Harvesting can also reduce stormwater runoff and fees, and helps solve potable, non-potable, and energy challenges. Commercial property owners are beginning to realize how much stormwater fees are costing them, says Zachary Popkin, program manager for the Energy ... Read more »
Nestlé Waters North America is investing $6 million in an effort to find a national solution to the “critical recycling gap” in the US, the company announced today. Its investment is going to the Closed Loop Fund, a $100 million social impact investment fund committed to funding comprehensive recycling infrastructure and programs ... Read more »
Trinity College in Hartford, CT, is the latest institute of higher learning to ensure a steady and reliable source of power while saving on energy costs and reducing CO2. The college expects to save about 30% in energy costs per year with the installation of a 1.4 megawatt fuel cell power ... Read more »
While Big Oil and Exxon in particular are voicing support for CO2 reductions, institutional investors are keeping up the pressures.
Craig Moeller, director of advanced energy generation for Lockheed Martin, discusses the future of waste-to-energy.
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Fiat Chrysler (FCA), attempting to reach a settlement with US regulators following studies that show the automaker installed emissions-cheating software, has said that it will modify around 100,000 diesel vehicles. While the situation is similar to the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, FCA is unlikely to have to pay as much as that company, ... Read more »
PepsiCo is the latest CPG company touting its commitment to reduce packaging waste, having announced that it has joined the New Plastics Economy initiative as a “core partner.” The initiative, launched in London in May 2016, brings together industry, government, NGOs and others to build a more sustainable global plastics value chain. Other core partners ... Read more »
Last November, Walmart became the first retailer to set a Science Based Target, committing to reducing its own emissions 18% by 2025 from 2015 levels, and to cutting 1 gigaton of emissions from its value chain by 2030. As the largest retailer in the world, Walmart’s move was seen as ... Read more »
Growth in data center energy consumption from major companies — including Facebook and Google — has actually slowed, thanks to commitments to energy efficiency initiatives by several organizations. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, data centers in the US consumed around 70 billion kWhs in 2014, accounting for nearly ... Read more »
Worldwide toymaker LEGO announced yesterday that it reached its 100% renewable energy goal three years ahead of schedule. The company credits the completion of 258 megawatt Burbo Bank Extension Wind Farm, among other initiatives, with helping it reach such goals. In 2015, LEGO announced it would invest $150 million over ... Read more »
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 1pm-2pm EDT Corporations with industrial sites in Mexico can now benefit from Mexico’s open and competitive energy markets. These newly created power and natural gas markets offer significant relief to energy managers and maquiladoras that have seen default utility (CFE) energy costs swing wildly—surging more ... Read more »
Business Sector Media, publisher of Energy Manager Today and Environmental Leader, announced that exhibit space for the Environmental Leader 2017 Conference and Energy Manager Summit in June has sold out. The exhibit hall, which will be open throughout the conference in Denver June 5-7, will be filled with a wide variety of exhibitors ready ... Read more »
Virginia's governor has signed an executive order to limit carbon emissions that would utilize a cap-and-trade system. It is implemented, the governor ask it be ready by year-end.
Retailers, with their increased use of sustainable packaging, are playing a leading role in encouraging consumers to adopt bio-based packaging materials; manufacturers and retailers that adopt biodegradable packaging materials will benefit through cost cuts and tax reductions, according to a Technavio market research analysis. Technavio says the global biodegradable paper ... Read more »
Business Sector Media, publisher of Environmental Leader and Energy Manager Today, announced today that exhibit space for the Environmental Leader 2017 Conference in June has sold out. The exhibit hall, which will be open throughout the conference in Denver June 5-7, will be filled with a wide variety of exhibitors ready to answer questions related ... Read more »
The new Circular Fibres Initiative brings together clothing retailers H&M and Nike, philanthropic funder the C&A Foundation, and a consortium of organizations including the Danish Fashion Institute, Fashion for Good, Cradle to Cradle and MISTRA Future Fashion in order to “build a circular economy for textiles,” starting with clothing. The members will address ... Read more »
Hundreds of organizations have engaged in energy saving efforts that have resulted in a combined 240 trillion Btus and an estimated $1.9 billion in cumulative energy and cost savings. That’s according to the Better Buildings Progress Report, which tracks accomplishments across the broader Better Buildings Initiative. More than 345 private ... Read more »
Energy Research Council’s (ERC) national benchmark price for a June 2017 electricity contract rose slightly last week by 0.26% to $0.0751 per kilowatt hour. The largest price movement was in New York where the benchmark price increased by 1.0%. Prices in other deregulated states shifted by only a fraction ... Read more »
The use of a microgrid system could help the US military stay operational in the case of an attack on America’s main electricity grid. The findings were published in a paper by Michigan Technological University engineering and energy policy experts, who say going off-grid — by using a microgrid system — ... Read more »
By working within the industry to source only sustainable natural rubber in its tires, General Motors is helping to reduce its risk related to the sourcing and long-term availability of one of its key commodities and ensures that volume continues to meets growing global demand through improved yields.
Excerpt: Nelson Switzer, chief sustainability officer of Nestlé Waters North America, discusses emerging global water stewardship standards.
Industrial entities in emerging economies are widely adopting comprehensive energy management solutions; China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Mexico and South Africa hold significant promise for the global energy management systems market, according to Transparency Market Research’s new study, Energy Management Systems (EMS) Market Forecast 2016-2024. Industries such as iron ... Read more »
(Pictured: Brookly Navy Yard) Commercial customers of Con Edison in New York and New Jersey will benefit from the energy-delivery company’s five-year smart meter installation program that starts this year, Con Edison’s chairman and CEO John McAvoy told employees at its annual meeting yesterday. The meters will let the company ... Read more »
The US Department of Energy has announced nearly $3.9 million for 13 projects designed to stimulate the use of high performance supercomputing in US manufacturing. The program (confusingly acronymed HPC4Mfg) hopes to spur innovation in US manufacturing through the adoption of high performance computing to advance applied science and technology in order to increase the energy efficiency of ... Read more »
As an organization operating in today’s business landscape, you know the importance of conducting risk assessments… and you’re also intimately familiar with the challenges in making those assessments happen efficiently and successfully. You need a systematic approach to ensure that you’re successfully mitigating risk throughout your organization to ensure the ... Read more »