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Apple, Coca-Cola, Walmart and PepsiCo are among the 13 of the largest companies in the US that have signed the American Business Act on Climate Pledge. The companies have announced a combined total of $140 billion in new low-carbon investments, in addition to ambitious, company-specific goals to cut emissions as ... Read more »
Western states’ public schools and governments can save $859 million annually by using performance contracting to implement water management and energy conservation measures, according to a market study by Western Resource Advocates and McKinstry. The report, Tapping the Power of the Market: Financial, Energy and Water Savings, and New Revenue ... Read more »
A chemical-free advanced oxidation process (AOP) known as Keratox for the treatment and removal of organic and chemical contaminants from municipal drinking water and wastewater has been introduced by atg UV Technology. Utilizing atg UV Technology’s UV treatment systems in combination with a unique and patented Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) catalyst, ... Read more »
A new dual membership program is available to members of ASHRAE and the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) as part of consolidation between the two groups finalized earlier this year. ASHRAE and IAQA announced last year that they were joining forces to combine resources to improve indoor air quality in ... Read more »
Federal buildings are struggling to keep pace with their energy reduction goals, according to an article in E&E. In March President Obama signed an Executive Order calling for federal agencies to reduce energy use in federal buildings by 2.5 percent per year, from a 2015 baseline, through 2025. Federal Energy Management ... Read more »
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Dr. James Colwill, Dr. Oliver Gould and Liam Gardner of the SMART Centre Loughborough University and Roy Willey, safe and sustainable processing scientist at Unilever, talk about material flow modeling and critical materials resilient manufacturing at the fourth annual Conference of the EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainability 6-7 July, Cambridge.
Plug Power is purchasing Axane to acquire the remaining 80 percent that it doesn’t own of HyPulsion, its European joint venture, for $11.47 million in Plug Power common stock. Plug Power and Air Liquide, the parent company of Axane, founded HyPulsion in 2012 to advance the hydrogen and fuel cell ... Read more »
Trane expanded its lineup of Performance Climate Changer outdoor air handler units to deliver increased energy efficiency and improved indoor air quality for a wide variety of applications. Performance Climate Changer outdoor air handlers use Trane Cool Dry Quiet desiccant dehumidification wheels to manage building humidity better than traditional coil-only ... Read more »
Capstone Turbine received an order for a C1000 microturbine to be installed for Kineticor Resource, a Canadian energy services company that provides onsite power for natural gas drilling operations. Kineticor builds, owns and operates power generation equipment that converts associated gas to power. The grid-connect C1000 microturbine will use the ... Read more »
The Pennsylvania Convention Center completed three LED lighting projects and received $60,000 in PECO Smart Ideas rebates. During the past two years, the convention center has replaced lighting throughout the facility and in the adjacent 12th Street tunnel with energy-efficient LED lighting. This new lighting will save about 607,000 kWh ... Read more »
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New Champion LX Series packaged units from Johnson Controls for light commercial and residential use earn a 14 Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) rating. The LX Series is the first product launched under the new Champion brand. Champion LX Series packaged units feature: Single-cabinet design versus previous three-cabinet model Copper tube/aluminum ... Read more »
General Electric is relaunching its energy storage business and has its sights set on becoming a sizable player in the market, Reuters reports. In the wake of diminishing demand for its Durathon industrial battery, GE has overhauled its approach to the energy storage market and is now positioning itself as ... Read more »
Carbon Engineering is working on the industrial-scale capture of CO2 from ambient air. This video explains the technology behind the direct capture of CO2 from the atmosphere and what Carbon Engineering is doing to commercialize air capture.
Current building codes require specified time delays before occupancy sensors turn off or dim the lights in an unoccupied space. And while shorter delays save energy, constantly switching lights on and off can shorten the lifespan of a fluorescent lamp, according to a blog posting on the Lighting Controls Association ... Read more »
Rapid growth in LED technology has brought good news for energy managers in industrial facilities, as they have more options than ever before in planning facility retrofits. Finding high-quality fixtures that reduce energy consumption and cut maintenance costs is easier today than it was several years ago. The bad news ... Read more »
Early Bird Deadline for the energy awards from Energy Manager Today arrives July 29. Awards prove to potential customers, existing clients, investors and other stakeholders the worth of your product or the project you implemented. Writing a tight, informative entry for the energy awards, being precise about why your product ... Read more »
There’s rightfully much ado about the climate — from extreme weather events, severe droughts and water crises to fossil fuels and the race to renewables. However, there’s far too little talk about electronics and their role in environmental ecosystems. Ironically, the folks who say, “Don’t worry, we’ll invent solutions to ... Read more »
By the end of 2015, the global pumps market will tide over several waves of uncertainty to register substantial growth, Frost & Sullivan says. The decline in oil prices, in the beginning of 2015, in particular, forced consolidation and a shift to innovative operational procedures as end users focused on ... Read more »
General Motors will achieve a 20-lb. weight saving on its 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Couple by using TCA Ultra Lite, a Class A body panel material, according to Continental Structural Plastics, a lightweight composite manufacturer. This is the first production use of CSP’s Ultra Lite advanced composite. “Through a joint ... Read more »
To help companies better monitor supply chain performance and advance sustainable purchasing, supplier collaboration platform Tradeshift has partnered with EcoVadis, creator of the first collaborative platform providing supplier sustainability ratings for global supply chains. The partnership will give Tradeshift customers access to EcoVadis’ supplier sustainability ratings. Companies are under ever-increasing ... Read more »
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering will upgrade a waste-to-energy plant in Japan, revamping three stoker furnace type incinerators with a collective processing capacity of 330 tons per day. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries received the order from the Amachiku Environmental Office Association, an organization encompassing seven municipal entities in southwestern ... Read more »
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Integrated Environmental Technologies: The life sciences company has hired Chad Crady to serve as vice president of sales and operations for the company’s oil and gas division. Before joining IET, he was the president of Sage Power Solutions. ... Read more »
With the growing need for high volume processing of organics (including green waste and food waste) for compost and anaerobic digestion (AD) conversion, WSM has introduced the WSM BioPrep Organics Processing System: a complete high capacity system to convert green waste, food waste and mixed organics into high quality feedstock ... Read more »
NSF International has introduced a mark that identifies automotive collision replacement parts that have met specific environmental claims. These claims include low volatile organic compound (VOC) paints and primers, recycled packaging made with non-toxic materials, and solvent-free coating on the package and part marking/labeling. Manufacturers of NSF International certified automotive ... Read more »
Key environment, health and safety standards are now supported on the RegScan One platform, according to the compliance management company. ISO and OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) standards serve as a complementary piece to the global legal registers and audit protocols already available. Users of the RegScan One ... Read more »