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Sex, drugs and GDP
The continuing discussion about what Gross Domestic Product (GDP) should include in order to more accurately reflect the scope and health of the economy has entered a new and intriguing dimension. From...
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Penalties, fracking alter the playing field for energy companies
Guest post by Daphne Holmes. She is a writer for arrestrecords.com; reach her at daphneholmes9@gmail.com. The notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in 2010, considered to be the largest...
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Green truck standards aid business and the planet
A recent report from the Environmental Defense Fund and Ceres says that strong fuel efficiency and GHG emission standards for freight trucks could slash fuel consumption by as much as 40 percent...
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Assessing climate change risk
Except for a small but mostly insane group of climate change deniers, it’s generally acknowledged that the globe’s climate is at risk—therefore how companies assess the financial impact of climate...
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Utilities’ use of renewable energy rising
The “new reality” facing electricity consumers and their utility companies is that renewable energy is meeting an increasingly larger share of U.S. energy needs, according to a report from Ceres and...
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Coal export terminal plan sunk by Oregon lands agency
Now we’re down to two. Oregon’s Department of State Lands last week denied an Ambre Energy proposal to transport coal by rail to a Port of Morrow, OR terminal for eventual export to China and other...
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China, Nature Conservancy Work to Curb Pollution
Talk about strange bedfellows: China is the largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, but the country, in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy, is working to curb the causes and...
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“External Assurance” in Sustainability Reporting on the Rise
Sustainability reporting should be comprehensive, transparent, non-biased and standardized, and the best way to improve the quality and credibility of reporting, according to the Global Reporting...
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GAO on freight transport: focus on community congestion impact
The Government Accountability Office says developing a national freight strategy should pay attention to the impact of congestion on communities. GAO’s report (GAO-14-740), released on 26 September,...
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Port of San Francisco urged to restrict fossil fuels
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is urging the Port of San Francisco and the city’s Department of the Environment to develop policies that will bar the transportation and export of hazardous fuel...
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Wells Fargo launches “Innovation Incubator” program
Wells Fargo last week launched an “Innovation Incubator” program (IN2), a $10 million environmental grant program for clean technology startups. IN2 was announced 28 October at the NREL Industry...
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UCS: Expect more tidal flooding and sea level rise
Courtesy of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a video starkly illustrates, in about three and a half minutes, the “growing impacts of global warming,” on tidal flooding due to rising sea levels. As...
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A reformed climate denier
For all those climate deniers out there, I recommend that you read a recent article republished by Salon, “I was once a climate change denier,” by Kasra Hassani, a scientist with a PhD in microbiology...
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With Inhofe in, is climate change out?
The short answer is that climate change is no more out than it’s always been in the theater of absurd that’s the Senate, but now maybe more so. That’s because James Inhofe at the controls of the Senate...
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Enviros sue gov’t over climate effects of coal lease program
Two environmental groups are taking the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to court for failing to consider the harmful climate effects of the federal government’s coal leasing program. The lawsuit was...
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International law is quiet on climate change responsibility
If global climate change increasingly affects everything from public health to species extinction to infrastructure and property destruction to migration patterns—and it does—well, who can I sue about...
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Mondelez moves to third-party sustainability evaluation
Mondelez International, the multinational snack foods giant, is developing an outcome-based sustainability framework that will use an external party to measure the impact of its $200 million Coffee...
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NRDC airline scorecard ranks airline biofuel use
Here’s the deal: air travel emissions pump more than 650 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year – that’s equivalent to the pollution from 136 million cars. It’s not likely that...
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Infographic: biomass feedstock and the supply chain
Genera recently published an infographic overview of different biomass feedstocks and guidelines for choosing the best solution for every biomass project. The infographic highlights key supply chain...
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White House fact sheet: reducing GHG emissions across the supply chain
Here are the details from President Obama’s Executive Order that intends to the Federal Government’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent over the next decade from 2008 levels — saving taxpayers...
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