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Carbon Emissions from Air Travel to Super Bowl LIII to Be Offset by Atlanta Airport, RMI

February 1, 2019September 1, 2020 by Jennifer Nastu

Carbon emissions from air travel to Super Bowl LIII on February 3 will be offset to the tune of 18,000 metric tons, or the equivalent of more than 1,600 air miles for each of the 71,000 seats at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is partnering with Rocky Mountain Institute ... Read more »

Work Together to Turn Greenhouse Gas Emissions into Useful Products, Urges New Report

October 18, 2018October 11, 2019 by Jennifer Nastu

The US government and the private sector should focus on research to advance technologies that turn greenhouse gas emissions into useful products such as fuels, construction materials and chemicals, urges the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. A new report from the National Academies offers an agenda for how ... Read more »

Waste Connections Deploys Top Tech to Reach Significant Reduction Goals

October 15, 2018October 17, 2019 by Jennifer Nastu

Waste Connections, a solid waste services company, is using a variety of technology solutions to reach significant sustainability goals including optical sorting machines, anaerobic digesters, and gas recovery systems...

Good Clean Love Gets Good and Carbon Neutral for ‘More Brand Trust’

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 by Jennifer Nastu

Good Clean Love, a manufacturer of intimacy products distributed in retail locations including CVS, Rite-Aid, Safeway and Whole Foods, is seeking carbon neutrality for its flagship Almost Naked product. The company is working with Carbon Credit Capital (CCC) to measure the emissions generated by the manufacture and distribution of the product and donate funds for every lubricant bottle purchased to a

Tax Incentives Slipped into Trump’s Budget Could Zoom Adoption of Carbon Capture

February 14, 2018 by Jennifer Nastu

The budget bill signed by President Trump last week includes a significant expansion of tax incentives for carbon capture. The tax credit, known as 45Q, allows for a credit of

7-Eleven Courts Customers: ‘You Pump Gas, We’ll Reduce Your Emissions!’

October 5, 2017November 22, 2017 by Jennifer Nastu

7-Eleven announced a carbon offset program that the company says will reduce emissions by up to 30% for each gallon of fuel pumped. Nearly 100 stores in Portland, Seattle, and Madison, WI, are piloting the program, dubbed 7-Eleven Renew. For every 15-gallon car pumping gas at participating stores, 7-Eleven will

Globe Tries to Get its Arms Wrapped Around Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions

June 21, 2016June 20, 2016 by Ken Silverstein

While global coal consumption fell by 1.8 percent, that was offset by a rise in natural gas and oil usage, according to BP's June statistical analysis.

Reducing GHGs Will Increase UK GDP, Report Says

September 16, 2014September 15, 2014 by Ken Jennison

If the UK holds to its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below their 1990 levels by 2050, there would be a 1.1 percent increase in gross domestic product, according to a report by Cambridge Econometrics. The report looks at the likely results of the four interim ... Read more »

South Korea to Increase Emissions Cap

September 15, 2014September 12, 2014 by Ken Jennison

South Korea is expected to introduce a carbon trading scheme that is about 3 percent larger than it had previously announced, according to Reuters. The South Korean government said last Thursday that it would distribute 1.687 billion metric tons of carbon-equivalent emission permits from 2015-17 as part of its trading ... Read more »

Study: Cutting Emissions Could Pay for Itself

August 26, 2014August 25, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Money saved on health care spending related to carbon emissions could be 10 times what it would cost for policy implementation, according to research conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published in Nature Climate Change. Researchers compared health care and other costs related to carbon emission-related illness to the costs of ... Read more »

How to Choose a Sustainable Packaging Strategy

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Manufacturers have a choice between two valid sustainable packaging models: the circular economy model and the eco-efficiency or linear model, according to Packaging Digest. With an eco-efficiency model, companies choose the most resource-efficient option, even if this does not use renewable resources and is more difficult to sustain in the long ... Read more »

UN Cites Accelerated Gas Emissions

April 14, 2014April 17, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Policies to stem the release of global greenhouse gas emissions have failed to slow the acceleration of such gases to dramatic levels at the start of the century, the United Nations’ top panel on climate change has said. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the third in a series, says ... Read more »

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