CCES News For You

June 27, 2010
The potential federal climate bill remains in limbo, as Congress has been distracted by other priorities, such as financial reform and the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring a bill to the floor in July, but there are huge philosophical differences even within the Democratic Party [...]

May 31, 2010
Many companies think about going green. I have talked about this to managers at several companies. Many nod their heads that the business benefits of growing green are real and can have a positive impact on their firm. (See my blog article below of the 8 purely business reasons to have a robust [...]

May 23 2010
Special thanks to Dennis Shelly of Apex Companies (www.apexcos.com), leader in due diligence assessments for his contributions to this article.
As I’ve written a number of times, climate change has moved in the last year from being a voluntary program for companies that’s good for the bottom line and the Earth to a program [...]

April 25, 2010
Well, another Earth Day has come and gone. Politicians talked about how important the environment is. Companies have shown off, in some cases abstractly, how “green” they are. But I’d like to introduce a new concept for Earth Day and every day for that matter. I’m going to call it “Pointilism”. If the [...]

On Feb. 2, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published an interpretive guidance (http://www.sec.gov./rules/interp/2010/33-9106.pdf) for public companies listing disclosure requirements to investors applied to business/legal developments related to climate change. Risk related to climate change has been discussed in Europe for some time, but has not been addressed in the U.S. yet.
SEC regulations require [...]

You’ve been reading on-line, in journals, perhaps even in Environmental News for You and seen the arguments of why a climate change program is beneficial for your company:
• proven reduction in operational costs;
• opportunity to generate carbon credits for potential additional revenue;
• create new, attractive products and re-package old ones;
• use as a chip to fast-track important projects;
• impress customers;
• satisfy [...]