House Passes Chemical Safety Law Reform
The US House of Representatives today approved new chemical safety rules that will overhaul the outdated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It passed 403 to 12. The Senate is expected to approved the...
View ArticleInsurance Companies’ Fossil Fuel Investments a ‘Potential $459 Billion...
The insurance industry’s massive investments in fossil fuel companies — to the tune of $459 billion — represents a risky bet as demand for coal, oil and gas drops and renewable energy gains momentum,...
View ArticleMajor Firms Backing ‘New Plastics Economy’
A plastics initiative that aims to increase recycling and reuse as well as bioplastics has launched with the backing of major companies including Amcor, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical and Mars.
View ArticleTVA May Start Up First Nuclear Unit in Decades In Weeks
The TVA could be allowed to start up the first nuclear energy unit within weeks, its Watts Bar 11 plant.
View ArticleImprove Performance & Reduce Risk with Environmental, Health and Safety...
Environmental, health and safety (EH&S) management systems go hand in hand to deliver performance benefits and improved risk reduction strategies to your organization. ISO 14001 (Environmental...
View ArticleExxonMobil, Chevron Shareholders Reject Climate Change Proposals
ExxonMobil and Chevron shareholders voted against 10 of 11 climate-change proposals at their annual meetings today.
View ArticleLighter, More Efficient Transmissions Using Structural Plastics
Automotive engineering consultancy Drive System Design (DSD) and global chemical company Solvay SA have teamed up to improve efficiency and reduce the weight of automotive transmissions through the...
View ArticleWill Clean-Energy Desalination Be a Game-Changing Water Fix?
Desalination is typically an energy-intensive — and thus expensive — way to produce freshwater, which is one of the reason it has been slow to take off as a widespread solution to water shortages. This...
View ArticleExxonMobil Gets Challenge from Shareholders to Reduce Carbon. Will Other...
As You Sow is asking Exxon Mobil to report its reserves as both equivalent barrels of oils and as an energy-neutral metric.
View ArticleIncreased Transparency Becoming a Business-Critical Initiative
Consumers, public interest groups, and governments are demanding information about the safety and environmental impacts of the products being sold today, and organizations are responding in larger and...
View ArticleWhat Is the State of Curbside Recycling?
The EPA has teamed up with the nonprofit The Recycling Partnership to look at trends and gaps in curbside recycling in the US. To this end, the The Recycling Partnership, whose members include P&G...
View ArticleWhy Climate Business Risk Disclosures are the New Norm
A new emissions disclosure rule, proposed by the White House this week, would require companies with federal contracts to report on their greenhouse gas emissions, efforts and targets to limit such...
View ArticleNike Expansion Cuts Supply Chain’s Carbon Footprint
Nike has expanded its European Logistics Campus in Belgium and implemented several new environmental sustainability aspects as part the company’s efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its supply...
View ArticleCan Free Enterprise Help Manufacturers Reduce Their Carbon Releases?
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says that its participating members have reduced their heat-trapping emissions by at least 40 percent since 2005.
View ArticleG7 Countries Pledge to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020
Leaders of the G7 countries including President Obama pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 at the G7 summit in Japan.
View ArticleGrocery Manufacturers Association: Date Labeling ‘Not THE Solution to Food...
Date labeling food to help prevent food waste is important, but it’s not the “silver bullet” for reducing food waste, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association, whose 300 member companies...
View ArticleFood, Beverage Execs to GOP: Climate Change Is Hurting Our Supply Chains
Climate change poses “inherent risk to the food supply system,” according to food and beverage industry execs who took this message to Capitol Hill, meeting with US House lawmakers and urging federal...
View ArticleGreen Jobs are Sprouting Up. Will It Last?
Solar jobs are hot and growing faster than those in the fossil fuel sector. That's according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, which said that more than 8 million around the globe had jobs...
View ArticleAmerica’s long fever dream of boundless nuclear power: What’s a country to do?
Internationally, the US nuclear industry is falling behind in building plants, if not in research. China alone, with 29 GW of nuclear operating, has 22 GW under construction and plans an added 58 GW at...
View ArticleWill Next-Gen Carbon Capture Technologies Kick Start CCS?
Next-generation carbon capture technologies show promise in lowering the cost and energy use associated with CCS, according to new research from the IEA Clean Coal Center.
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