Dupont on Trial over C8s Tied to Cancers. But is the Replacement C6 Safer?
Dupont started to phase-out C8 from the market in 2014 after it was determined that it caused a number of cancers linked thyroid and testicular issues. It has replaced it with C6, which is supposed to...
View ArticleEL Conference Brings Sustainability to Denver Next Week
The Environmental Leader 2016 Conference, June 21-23 in Denver, is all about current and emerging real-world challenges and the practical tools and solutions to help companies meet them. Commercial and...
View ArticleSponsored Content: Q&A with a Leader – Altenex
Blaine Collison will be a panelist at the Environmental Leader Conference on June 21-23 in Denver. His panel, Corporate & Industrial Renewable Energy Procurement Strategies, will be at 2:30 on June...
View ArticleNestlé Waters Opens Switzerland’s Largest Anaerobic Digestion Plant
Nestlé Waters and Swiss renewable energy developer Groupe E GreenWatt have opened Switzerland’s largest agricultural biogas plant, which will recycle agricultural waste and produce renewable energy.
View ArticleEnvironmental Executive Moves: Ten K Solar, Novelis, thinkstep, Axion...
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Ten K Solar: The commercial rooftop solar technology has appointed Jeffrey J. Hohn (pictured) as chief...
View ArticlePowering iPhones with iEnergy: Apple Enters the Energy Sector
Apple has formed a subsidiary, Apple Energy, to sell surplus solar power generated by its California and Nevada farms across the US and has also received approval to build a landfill-gas-to-energy...
View ArticleSponsored Content: Q&A with a Leader – UL EHS Sustainability Team
Robert Polito will be a panelist at the Environmental Leader Conference on June 21-23 in Denver. His panel, ISO Standards and your Sustainability & EHS Programs, will be at 2 pm on June 23. We were...
View ArticleMercury Rule Looks Like It Will Take Effect Now that the High Court Won’t...
The Obama administration racked up a key victory over its mercury rule after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on Monday. It”s an indication that the high court will remain sympathetic to...
View ArticleNissan Develops Ethanol Fuel Cell for Vehicles
Nissan has developed an ethanol fuel cell for cars — a world first for automotive use, according to the company.
View ArticleCongress Looks to Slash EPA Funding, Block Environmental Regulations
US Senate Republicans are looking to slash EPA funding and block some of the agency’s climate rules and environmental regulations that would manufacturers and other industries.
View ArticleRepublic Services Opens Landfill Ash Metal Recovery Facility
Recycling and waste management company Republic Services and environmental technology firm Lab USA have opened an ash metal recovery facility at a Washington landfill. The facility, at Roosevelt...
View Article21st Century Economy: If it is Good for the Environment, It Can Be Good for...
About 43 percent of Fortune 500 companies have already set targets to reduce carbon pollution, improve energy efficiency and procure more renewable energy, according to CERES, a business group...
View ArticleStandardized OHS Sustainability Reporting
A new guide aims to standardize occupational health and safety sustainability reporting, providing OHS professionals with metrics and best reporting practices.
View ArticleDow Technology Enables Recyclable Flexible Plastic Packaging
Dow Chemical has debuted a new RecycleReady Technology that allows polyethylene-based barrier packaging to be recycled as part of existing grocery store drop-off recycling programs.
View ArticleWhy Cox Is Investing $25 Million in Cleantech Companies and How to Get in on...
Cox Enterprises has pledged to invest $25 million in environmentally sustainable companies and technologies — good news for cleantech startups as well as established companies looking for funding and...
View ArticleInvestments to Advance Nuclear Energy Quietly Move Forward for Carbon-Free...
Nuclear energy will be getting some research funds. It's not much. But it does symbolize that this country is looking to the baseload fuel that is relatively carbon-free.
View ArticleEHS Stakeholder Engagement – A Strategy for Success
“Stakeholder engagement” became a buzzword as the sustainability movement gained visibility and momentum in the 1990s, and today, every sustainability program has stakeholder engagement as a key part...
View ArticleDow, 3M, Target Among Major Companies Advancing Circular Economy Principles
Dow, 3M and Target are among the 25 major companies and organizations that have launched an initiative to promote the circular economy.
View ArticleEPA Moves Forward with Clean Energy Incentive Program
Despite the legal challenges to the Clean Power Plan, the EPA yesterday proposed the details of the Clean Energy Incentive Program, a voluntary component of the agency’s carbon pollution rules....
View ArticleGE, EDF Inaugurate ‘Most Efficient Power Plant in the World’
General Electric and French energy company EDF today began operation of the first ever combined-cycle power plant equipped with GE’s HA turbine, in Bouchain, France.
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