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As part of its 100-year anniversary in 2018, Panasonic announced a goal of becoming the leader in green electronics innovation. Its Green Plan 2018 is a plan for steadily cutting its environmental impact while making “the world’s greenest and most green-enabling products.” Among its goals is to achieve zero waste ... Read more »
Alaska Airlines ranks No. 1 in fuel efficiency in a report by the International Council on Clean Transportation, while Allegiant Air is the least fuel-efficient and generates the most greenhouse gas emissions to provide a comparable level of service. The study by the nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, ... Read more »
Mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Barrick Gold are beginning to adopt greener technologies, spawning a cottage industry of companies aimed at helping the mining industry clean up after hundreds of years of inefficiencies and waste, according to a report by cleantech research and advisory firm Kachan & Co. The ... Read more »
The beverage company has also partnered with JBF Industries to further expand production of the plant-based material used in the company’s PlantBottle packaging. JBF announced last year that it will build the world’s largest facility for the production of bi-glycol, the key ingredient used in the manufacture of the plant ... Read more »
California’s carbon emissions will be lower than analysts initially expected, remaining below the allowance cap until at least 2017 with offsets making the market oversupplied through 2019, according to analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon. Based on a revised emissions model, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon now estimates that emissions covered ... Read more »
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California’s cap-and-trade system could end up facing a similar problem to Europe’s: too-low carbon prices. A Point Carbon report finds that California’s greenhouse gas output is already lower than the cap the state set for 2015, and that the state will remain below the cap until at least 2017. This ... Read more »
Like e-NV200, e-NT400 would be able to enter city areas denied to conventional vehicles powered by diesel or petrol engines, while its near-silent running means it could operate around the clock as it creates no noise or emission nuisance. The company says low running costs would make e-NT400 a “breakthrough ... Read more »
The city of Columbia, S.C. has agreed to implement extensive improvements to its sanitary sewer system at an estimated cost of $750 million, to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act including unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage, under a settlement with the EPA, Department of Justice and South Carolina Department ... Read more »
Lynn L. Bergeson is Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C), a Washington, D.C. law firm focusing on conventional, nanoscale, and biobased industrial, agricultural, and specialty chemical product regulation and approval matters, environmental health and safety law, chemical product litigation, and associated business counseling and litigation issues. She is ... Read more »
Microsoft has used funds raised over the past year from its internal carbon offset fee to invest in 15 resource conservation and renewable energy projects throughout the world including Brazil, India, Kenya, Mongolia, China and the United States. Funds raised through the fee also have been used for internal efficiency ... Read more »
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Oil and natural gas companies are America’s top investors in zero- and low-greenhouse gas emissions technologies, according to a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The study by T2 and Associates examined investments in GHG mitigation technologies from 2000 through 2012. During that period, the US oil and ... Read more »
To find leaders in sustainability and energy management, look at some cities and countries around the world: Globally, Sweden has emerged as a sustainability leader. RobecoSAM’s Country Sustainability Ranking declares it the world’s most sustainable country, largely because of the country’s renewable energy sources and low carbon emissions. The country ... Read more »
For the second consecutive year, the University of Maryland won the Energy Department’s Max Tech and Beyond design competition for ultra-low energy use appliances and equipment. The team developed a heat pump clothes dryer that is nearly 59 percent more efficient than a traditional electric dryer. The Max Tech and ... Read more »
Adopting combined heat and power technology for a hospital facility could slash energy bills, reduce emissions and make a facility more disaster resilient, according to a new report from Health Care Without Harm and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission. According to a scenario modeled in Powering the Future of Health Care – Financial ... Read more »
Maxwell Technologies is supplying ultracapacitors to Caterpillar for a high-efficiency energy management system that supports Caterpillar’s fuel-saving hydra-electric technology in its large hydraulic mining shovel, the new Cat 6120B H FS. The 1,400-ton shovel’s energy management system incorporates 98 of Maxwell’s 125-volt ultracapacitor modules to absorb energy during brief shovel ... Read more »
Silver Spring Networks partnered with Sunrise Technologies, a manufacturer of street lighting photocontrols for utilities. Silver Spring’s networking platform will be integrated into Sunrise Technologies’ utility-grade BrownBetty OpenGrid Light Control module. Silver Spring Networks’ secure IP platform, at scale across 17 million connected endpoints, enables utility customers to deploy large ... Read more »
SunWize Technologies, an engineering, procurement and construction company and distributor of sustainable energy products, completed a solar canopy installation for the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. The solar electric installation is one of many renewable energy projects at VA facilities across the United States, commissioned by the agency as ... Read more »
The EPA has launched a web-based tool that it says will help manufacturers choose safer ingredients to use in everyday products. The tool, called ChemView, improves access to chemical specific regulatory information developed by the EPA and data submitted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). By increasing health and ... Read more »
Colorado needs “aggressive” state-wide targets for reductions in municipal and industrial water use if it is to solve its water scarcity challenges and keep its economy growing, according to a report by the Colorado chapter of business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Such water use could increase by as much as 81 percent ... Read more »
What’s it like to work as a corporate environmental manager in China, where the government’s old credo of economic growth at all costs is ceding to pressure from outraged citizens? A column by Hua Ming at the Guardian gives some insight. His experience ranges from a more than fifty-year-old factory where ... Read more »
Firms faced a May 31 deadline to register certain substances manufactured in or imported to the EU, at or above 100 tons a year. In addition, the EU is implementing widespread bans on some substances that have been commonly used in manufacturing for years, and gradually restricting the use of other ... Read more »
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has introduced a “more streamlined price model” for the Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS), with flat annual fees. Prices are $1,000 to $1,350 for non-profit and governmental facilities, $1,200 to $1,250 for ISRI members and $3,500 for $4,300 for all other facilities. Anupam Rasayan ... Read more »
European automakers reduced average new car emissions by 2.5 percent to 132.4 grams per kilometer in 2012, putting the industry on track to meet binding emissions goals for 2015, according to a report by the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E). The EU’s 2015 target is for new cars ... Read more »
EMLab P&K, a TestAmerica company, has added the IAQ (indoor air quality) Pocket Reference Guide as a built-in feature to its Android app. The Android app allows clients to access environmental laboratory results wherever they are. The company says the IAQ Pocket Guide helps environmental professionals including industrial hygienists, environmental ... Read more »
