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Adriana Trujillo

Honda Announces New "Green Path" Initiative to Reduce Total Life-Cycle Environmental Im... - 0 views

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    Honda launched its "Green Path" approach-a suite of initiatives to reduce the total life-cycle environmental impact of its products and operations in North America. Notable initiatives include pledging to reduce its total GHG emissions by 50% from 2000 levels by 2050, investing $210 million in a paint facility to cut CO2 emissions in the painting process by 18% and reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 66%, and more.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands, Retailers... - 2 views

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    The industry group Sustainable Apparel Coalition has opened use of its Higg Index suite of tools for measuring and evaluating supply chain impact to non-member small and medium-sized (SME) brands and retailers. SMEs may now take advantage of a special licence for full access to the Higg Index. The coalition, which has over 180 apparel, footwear and home textile company members, expects that increasing the number of SMEs participating in the Index will bolster reporting and impact a wider spectrum of the supply chain.
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Brazil ratifies Paris agreement with pledge to sharply reduce emissions | Environment |... - 1 views

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    The Brazilian government has ratified its participation in the Paris agreement on climate change, a significant step by Latin America's largest emitter of greenhouse gases that could spur other countries to follow suit.
Adriana Trujillo

AT&T, EDF Toolkit Promises 28bn Gallons in Commercial Building Water Savings ... - 0 views

  • cooling towers typically use 28 percent of their daily water for cooling
  • The Building Water Efficiency toolkit is the result of data and lessons from pilot projects that ran across the US during the summer and fall of 2012.
  • For its own operations, AT&T says it identified water savings opportunities of 14 percent to 40 percent per pilot facility and did so in a way that also made business sense.
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  • $100,000 to install but AT&T expects it to produce more than $60,000 in annual water and sewer savings, paying for itself in less than two years.
  • $4,000 equipment upgrade to expand free air cooling will result in about $40,000 in annual savings, the company says.
  • AT&T aims to reduce its approximately 1 billion gallon annual cooling tower water use by 150 million gallons per year by 2015.
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    US commercial buildings can collectively save up to 28 billion gallons of water annually by using a suit of tools produced by AT&T and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the organizations say.
Adriana Trujillo

Flexible packaging offers sustainability, stackability - 0 views

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    Clear Lam's holiday container for Jon B. Sanfilippo and Son's Flavor Tree brand of Limited Edition Premium Dark Chocolate Pretzels marks the debut for its PrimaPak technology that offers flexibility, sustainability and recloseability. The packaging is meant to replace cans, bottles, jars and trays, and offers a weight savings of 70% when compared to plastic jars. It is suited to cookies, chips, cereal, coffee, nuts, sliced fruit and vegetables as well as other products, according to the company
Adriana Trujillo

Judge approves Anadarko's record $5.15 billion environmental settlement - 1 views

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    A judge has cleared the way for Anadarko Petroleum topay $5.15 billion to settle an environmental suit, the largest penalty ever in such a case, over fraud claims related to its acquisition of chemical company Tronox eight years ago.
Adriana Trujillo

COP21: Challenges from UN, MIT Seek Climate-Resilience Solutions from Around the Globe ... - 0 views

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    On Tuesday at COP21, the MIT Climate CoLab announced the launch of a series of online contests to help strengthen the resilience of vulnerable countries to respond to climate-related hazards. The suite of contests are part of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R), a global, multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at accelerating action on the ground to enhance climate resilience of the most vulnerable countries and people by 2020. 
Del Birmingham

150 Organizations Call for Ban on 'Biodegradable' Plastic Packaging - 0 views

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    The organizations cite research undertaken by universities, government agencies, laboratories, plastic trade associations and NGOs that have concluded oxo-degradable plastics are not suited for long-term reuse, recycling or composting. Instead, evidence has shown that these plastics often fragment into small pieces often not visible to the naked eye; those microplastic particles in turn often end up in both soil and oceans.
Del Birmingham

Judge Sides With Kids Suing The Government Over Climate Inaction: 'These Kids Can't Wai... - 0 views

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    On Friday, a group of children suing the government for inaction on climate change scored a major victory, as a judge ruled that the Washington State Department of Ecology must deliver an emissions reduction rule by the end of this year. That decision follows another major win in mid-April, when an Oregon judge ruled that a similar lawsuit could go forward despite opposition from the fossil fuel industry.
Adriana Trujillo

TransCanada Fights Keystone Denial With $15 Billion Appeal - Bloomberg Business - 0 views

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    TransCanada wants the US to pay it $15 billion to recoup costs and damages related to President Barack Obama's refusal to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline. In addition to planning the claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement, the company sued the US government in federal court in Texas, claiming Obama's November decision exceeded his constitutional authority.
Adriana Trujillo

Sierra Club sues U.S. Energy Department over power grid study - 1 views

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    The Sierra Club on Monday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Energy demanding that DOE identify the groups and individuals it consulted with on a soon-to-be released nationwide electric grid reliability study. "We want to make sure that when this study is finally released, that the public and policy makers fully understand how [DOE] went about doing it, who they were influenced by, and whose views they did not take into consideration," said Sierra Club attorney Casey Roberts.
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