EC Environmental Policy

Power management company Eaton announced that its 39 zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing facilities have avoided 2,750 metric tons of waste since 2010. The sites also avoided 2,500 metric tons of CO2 from waste transportation and storage over the same time period.

The Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament diverted 100% of its waste from landfills for the second consecutive year. The tournament also avoided 346 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, 369,000 gallons of water, and 471,000 KW-h of electricity.

Cruise Lines International Association's (CLIA) members - including Royal Caribbean International, Carnival and Disney Cruise Line - will no longer participate in Friends of the Earth's environmental survey.

North Carolina State University, Chapman University in California, Coca-Cola Enterprises in the Netherlands and ISS, a commercial facilities service provider, are just a few of the institutions that have made the switch to chemical-free cleaning

IKEA just bought the Hoopeston Wind farm, comprising 49 turbines in Vermillion County, Ill. This is its first wind farm investment in the U.S. and its largest renewable energy project. Set to become operational in 2015, Hoopeston will generate 380 GWh per year ­- nearly 1.5 times the energy needed to operate all of IKEA's U.S. operations.

FedEx Ground Package System allegedly violated California's hazardous waste control laws more than 1,500 times, according to a civil complained filed by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.

InterContinental Hotels Group has set a goal to reduce water use in water-stressed areas by 12 percent globally by 2017, compared to a 2012 baseline.

Now June will be the third month in a row with average carbon dioxide levels above 400 parts per million. Atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas, which helps drive global warming, haven't been this high in somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years.

Plastic waste causes $13 billion in annual financial damage to marine ecosystems, though the actual cost of plastic waste to the overall environment may be much higher, according to two reports released at a meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly. One report, the UN Environment Programme Year Book, notes that when plastic material fouls fishing equipment and pollutes beaches it threatens tourism, fisheries and businesses in addition to marine life.

The Port of Long Beach was named the world's Best Green Seaport this week at the 28th annual Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards in Shanghai by Chinese trade publication Cargonews Asia.

Neste Oil has produced its first batch of traffic fuel from recycled lubricants, the petroleum products and biofuel company says.

According to the report, 95 percent of study respondents ranked aging facilities and infrastructure as one of the most significant challenges facing the industry, followed by the aging of management and plant workers.

Lego is putting cash before kids and the environment, says a Greenpeace report that calls on the world's biggest toy company to stop making toys with Shell's branding. Greenpeace says the oil giant is threatening the Arctic and that Shell is using Lego to neutralize controversy over its climate impacts and plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.

Startup company Solidia Technologies and the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have partnered to accelerate the development of cement that can reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 70 percent.

Unilever, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson are among the companies that have either limited the use of triclosan - a commonly used anti-bacterial ingredient - in their products or announced plans to phase it out completely.

Renewable energy and efficiency strategies are saving America's biggest companies well over $1 billion a year, according to a new report from Ceres and the World Wildlife Fund. Led by UPS, the 53 Fortune 100 companies that report carbon reductions saved $1.1 billion annually and slashed their carbon diozide emissions by the equivalent of 15 coal-fired power plants

Truly committed companies have shortened their supply chains and focused on domestic sourcing. Bon Appétit is a great example. Their Fish to Fork program goes beyond a purchase commitment on paper to getting in the trenches to source fish that meets their corporate values. That means buying fish that is low on the trophic scale, meets their definition of "local" (both in the number of miles out to sea and across land that fish travels) and favors small boat operators.

America's cities are succeeding in curbing air pollution, according to data from NASA's Aura satellite. New York City has seen a 32% decrease in nitrogen dioxide since 2005, Atlanta's levels fell by 42%, and Denver scored a 22% decrease.

Chipotle set a goal of sourcing over 20 million pounds of produce from local farms in 2014-up from 15 million pounds in 2013. The company will serve food from 45 farms located within 350 miles of its restaurants.

The United States is launching an effort to save some of its busiest workers: honey bees.