Smart Customer Service for a Smart Grid World
Despite the many benefits of smart grid technology, the past year has seen its fair share of consumer backlash with some customers viewing smart meters as simply mechanisms that over charge for...
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement Roundup: College Works Painting, MM&A Railway, Grimmel
Here’s a roundup of the latest environmental enforcement stories: College Works Painting, a company operating in Oregon, has agreed to pay a $32,508 penalty for alleged violations of the federal...
View ArticleFord Turns Carpet into Auto Parts
Ford has recycled nearly 4.1 million pounds of carpet into cylinder head covers, the auto maker has announced. The Ford Escape, Fusion, Mustang and F-150 all use EcoLon, a nylon resin made from 100...
View ArticlePfizer Discusses its Strategic Plant Restructuring & Energy Master Plan
Michael Becker, Director, Engineering, Pfizer Manufacturing Germany GmbH talks to Pharmaceutical Processing’s Editor In Chief Mike Auerbach during INTERPHEX 2011 about the company’s SPRING & E-MAP...
View ArticleValvoline Mobilizes Commitment to ‘Green’
When looking for ways to ‘green their business’, leaders search for approaches that work. Unfortunately, cookie cutter solutions aren’t out there. Valvoline, a brand of Ashland Inc. based in Lexington,...
View ArticleGarnier Sponsors Industry-Wide Recycling
L’Oreal brand Garnier is partnering with recycling organization TerraCycle for an initiative to turn cosmetics packaging into playgrounds. Individuals or groups who sign up to participate in...
View ArticleGHG Regs Avoid Ax in 11th Hour Budget Deal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gas emissions appear to have escaped the hatchet in federal budget negotiations. Democrats and Republicans came to a tentative consensus...
View ArticleUnilever Leads Sustainability Rankings
Unilever has topped rankings of the companies most committed to sustainability, in a poll carried out by consultants SustainAbility and researchers GlobeScan The poll asked 559 qualified sustainability...
View Article24 Companies Agree to Publish Fracking Chemicals
BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips and 21 other natural gas companies are participating in a national registry disclosing the chemical additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process. The website,...
View ArticleWater Innovation and Investment for a Sustainable Future
According to the World Health Organization, nearly a billion individuals worldwide currently do not have access to safe water and close to 3.6 million people die each year from water-related causes....
View ArticleEnvironmental Enforcement: $150m Cleanup Begins at Pfizer Site
Cleanup and construction work expected to cost $150 million has begun at a former Pharmacia & Upjohn manufacturing facility located in North Haven, Conn., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleStudy: Most Companies Now Measure Green Savings
Three out of five employers (60 percent) are measuring their cost savings from environmental programs, up from 39 percent last year, according to a survey by Buck Consultants, a subsidiary of Xerox....
View ArticleFord, GE, Pepsi Win Energy Star Awards
Ford, Lowe’s, J.C. Penney and KB Home are among the winners of the 2011 Energy Star Awards, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. The four companies all won in the Sustained...
View ArticleLifecycle Analysis: Moving from Black-box to Transparency
Lifecycle analysis, or LCA, is all the rage. Academics and consultants tout the amazing insights that an LCA can provide companies. Labeling organizations solicit companies to run LCAs to produce...
View ArticleWater Stewardship Congressional Staff Briefing
Here’s a look at a congressional staff briefing on water stewardship hosted by ICCF. Joe Rozza, Manager, Global Water Resource Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company is featured. Other speakers...
View ArticleEPA Set for 16% Budget Cut
The budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would be cut by 16 percent under the budget deal struck between Democrats and Republicans, it has emerged. EPA funds would be reduced by about...
View ArticleSafeway Leads Greenpeace Seafood Rankings
Safeway has surged into first place in Greenpeace’s rankings of major seafood retailers, surpassing last year’s winner Target. Target and Wegmans now tie for second place on the Supermarket Seafood...
View ArticleElectronics Giants Pledge to Recycle a Billion Pounds
Executives from Best Buy, Panasonic, Sony and Toshiba have helped to launch an industry-wide initiative to recycle one billion pounds of electronics a year by 2016, in a move they say will trump...
View ArticleCBS EcoAd Accused of Greenwashing in FTC Complaint
CBS is the target of a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), over the broadcaster’s EcoAd program. Environmental groups Friends of the Earth, the Rainforest Action Network and Center...
View ArticleEnvironmental Software News: Northeast Utilities, First American Title,...
Northeast Utilities has selected Enviance’s cloud-based environmental management software to measure and report on all compliance areas. The utility, one of the largest in New England, will use...
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