Pharmaceutical Waste Management: Flush, Take-Back Laws or Something Else?
How to best manage pharmaceutical waste has become a hot-button issue. In September the EPA proposed new Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals, which sets regulations on how...
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon Underestimate Data Centers’ Carbon Footprints
Google and Amazon are among the companies using an obsolete tool to calculate their data center emissions from the electricity they purchase from the power grid, according to Lux Research. The research...
View ArticleFollow These 8 Steps to Craft A Winning Environmental Awards Entry
Awards give validation to the work a company does, both to potential customers, existing clients, and partners, and to others within the organization. But what is the best way to show off your product...
View ArticleMATS Compliance Help for Power Plant Operators
Late last year a federal appeals court upheld the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. To help power plant operators comply with the Mercury and Air...
View ArticleOil Mist Filters for Continuous Operation
Nederman has introduced a new range of oil mist filtration products, called Nederman Filtac, based on its FibreDrain technology, designed for continuous operation. Oil mist and smoke, generated by...
View ArticleMeet the Technologies GE, Statoil Say Will Revolutionize Oil & Gas Water...
The latest technologies poised to reduce water usage in onshore oil and gas production, according to General Electric and Statoil, include a water treatment via a nano-sponge, ice crystals and an...
View ArticleClean Power Plan: Obama’s Team Confident About Pitch to Supreme Court
The Obama administration is asking the US Supreme Court to reject a request by 27 states to initially allow them to put off complying with the Clean Power Plan — a step toward eventually wiping out the...
View ArticleBayer Refuses EPA’s Request to Pull Pesticide in US
Bayer Crop Science says it has refused a request by the EPA to pull its Belt pesticide off the market in the US. The chemical company says the EPA is exaggerating the environmental risk posed by...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Waste Management Victory Goes to Geospatial Technology
Super Bowl 50 victory went to the Denver Broncos last night but the waste management winner was Trimble Geospatial Solutions, which provided the geospatial technology used to clean up illegal dumping...
View ArticleObama Proposes $10-Per-Barrel Oil Tax
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose a $10-per-barrel fee paid by oil companies to fund investments in low-carbon transportation. The oil tax, which would be phased in over five years, is...
View ArticleWhy We’re Seeing the Beginning of a Multi-Billion Dollar Ecosystem Marketplace
A little-noticed announcement by the US Department of Interior in late 2015 reflects an emerging paradigm shift in natural resource conservation — and the role market-based solutions will play as the...
View ArticleUtility Regulators Refereeing Fierce Boxing Matches Over Rooftop Solar Energy
When California’s utility regulators kept a plan in place to pay rooftop solar owners the retail rate for the electricity that they return to their providers, those refs may have triggered a national...
View ArticleWater Planet, Genesys Partner to Supply RO Membrane Cleaning Chemicals
Genesys International has selected Water Planet, a supplier of membrane-based water treatment products, as the US distributor for its line of reverse osmosis membrane anti-scalant and cleaning...
View ArticleFord Sends Zero Waste to Landfill at NA Headquarter Facilities
Ford’s North American headquarter facilities now send zero waste to landfill. The automarker says the facilities — located in Dearborn, Michigan, Oakville, Ontario, and Santa Fe, Mexico — divert more...
View ArticleTetra Pak Launches 100% Renewable Carton Packaging in US
Sustainable packaging company Tetra Pak says it has produced the first 100 percent renewable Gable Top package in the US: cartons developed from a combination of paperboard and sugar cane derived...
View ArticleHow Smart Cities are Accelerating the Energy Transition
City leaders all over the world have embraced the smart city concept with enthusiasm. They are heralding innovative projects and laying out a vision for how cities can use technology to meet...
View ArticleWith a Focus Increasing Reliability and Decreasing Emissions, Microgrids are...
When the electricity goes out, the lights often turn on inside the minds of innovators. Enter the world of microgrids, which is becoming a harbinger of energy trends as more and more companies and...
View ArticleProduced Water Treatment Technology Combines Separation Equipment, Flocculent...
A pilot project to test produced water treatment technology is underway in the Middle East. Sorbwater Technology, a Norway-based company that has developed a technology to clean oil and other...
View ArticleObama’s Spending Plan Pumps $260M into Water Technology R&D
President Obama’s budget includes almost $260 million to fund a water innovation strategy, which the White House says will boost water sustainability and reduce the price and energy costs of new water...
View ArticleSupreme Court Blocks Clean Power Plan
The US Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major blow to President Obama’s climate change policy by temporarily halting the implementation of the Clean Power Plan while an appeals court considers a...
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