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Suez Environnement Opens New Jersey Corporate Office

June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Suez Environnement North America, the parent company of United Water and the North American subsidiary of the second largest environmental services company in the world, has opened a new corporate office in Paramus, New Jersey. The office building is designed to attain LEED-certification, the company says. The green building will ... Read more »

Verizon Diverts 2 Million Pounds of E-Waste, Sets New Goal

May 14, 2015May 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Verizon today achieved its goal to collect 2 million pound of electronic waste, reaching its 2010 target eight months early. The company also set a new goal: to collect another 2 million pounds of e-waste by 2020. Verizon met its earlier five-year e-waste goal during today’s e-waste recycling rally in ... Read more »

Single-Stream Recycling System Opens in New Jersey

May 5, 2015May 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Occupational Training Center (OTC) in Mount Holly, New Jersey, has opened a single-stream recycling system at the Robert C. Shinn Jr., recycling center in Mount Holly, Recycling Today reports. The system, designed and manufactured by San Diego-based CP Group, replaces a dual-stream recycling system previously used and can process ... Read more »

American Water Acquires Environmental Disposal Corporation

May 4, 2015May 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

American Water has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Environmental Disposal Corporation. EDC provides wastewater service to the more than 5,300 customer accounts, which are located in EDC’s service territory in Bedminster and Bernards townships, New Jersey. In addition, EDC provides retail wastewater ... Read more »

New Jersey Awards $2.9M for 13 Energy Storage Projects

March 26, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved the state’s first energy storage incentive commitments totaling $2.9 million for 13 proposed projects that will install energy storage systems integrated with customer-sited renewable energy generating facilities. The incentive commitments support the installation of renewable electric storage systems for the purpose of ... Read more »

United Water Deploys Sensus Smart Water Network

February 20, 2015February 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sensus is deploying and managing a smart water communication network for United Water, a major utility and wastewater provider and subsidiary of Suez Environment. The network, which includes the Sensus FlexNet system, 325,000 smart endpoints and Software as a Service (SaaS), will help the utility provide sustainable water management for ... Read more »

PSE&G Converts Landfills, Brownfields to Solar Farms

February 10, 2015February 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New Jersey utility Public Service Electric and Gas Company has converted two landfills into solar farms, bringing its total landfill/brownfield solar projects to seven. The two new projects — the 10.14 MW-dc Parklands Solar Farm in Bordentown, New Jersey and the 11.18 MW-dc Kinsley Solar Farm in Deptford, New Jersey ... Read more »

$38M Contract Awarded for Storm Risk Reduction

January 22, 2015January 21, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Manson Construction has been awarded a $38 million contract to restore areas of the New Jersey coastline damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The Christie Administration, in partnership with the US Army Corps of Engineers, this week announced the award to reconstruct beaches, stormwater outfalls and implement modifications to existing groins in ... Read more »

DuPont Chemical Plant Fined

January 13, 2015January 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DuPont has been fined $531,000 for alleged Clean Air Act violations at its chemical manufacturing plant in Deepwater, New Jersey. The EPA fined DuPont for improper maintenance and repair of two large refrigeration units. When properly maintained, the systems are designed to minimize chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from leaking into the environment. ... Read more »

NRG to Slash CO2 Emissions 90% by 2050

November 21, 2014November 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

NRG Energy has set a goal to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions 50 percent by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050 below a 2014 baseline. The energy company announced the new goals yesterday, in conjunction with a groundbreaking ceremony of its new “ultra-green” corporate headquarters (pictured) in Princeton, New Jersey, ... Read more »

PSE&G Incentives Employees’ Electric Cars

July 23, 2014July 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

PSE&G has launched a program to encourage New Jersey businesses to provide employees with electric car charging at work by providing smart charging equipment for about 150 cars. Charging stations will be given out on a first come, first serve basis to companies that secure a commitment from a minimum ... Read more »

Verizon Helps Super Bowl Recycle E-Waste

December 27, 2013December 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee and the NFL are partnering with Verizon and the Broadway Green Alliance to collect and recycle electronic waste in New York and New Jersey. The host committee and the NFL say the e-waste recycling events are part of a series of sustainability initiatives aimed at “greening” the ... Read more »

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