March 27, 2012 One interesting area that makes sustainability unique is its necessary integration of business concepts as it addresses environmental issues. While in science we look at a wastewater discharge or an air emission by its characteristics, in sustainability we have the opportunity to take a more holistic approach to material and energy usage [...]

Changing one’s ways or implementing new initiatives is difficult. It’s inconvenient. This seems especially true in the U.S. in recent years. Thus, the reluctance to implement smarter, cleaner strategies. Businesses in other nations have demonstrated that clean approaches – in operations and also in business strategies – have been successful in meeting the challenges of [...]

June 28, 2011 Important: Please note that this is not a legal opinion. I am not an attorney, but an engineer experienced in technical greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting activities. Last week large companies with a large “carbon footprint” could heave a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court issued a ruling in AEP v. Connecticut [...]

May 24, 2011 Last month, the USEPA issued its periodic update report on where the US stands in terms of our overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory, and trends since statistics began to be kept in 1990. It is important to step back and see where our GHG emissions derive and trends in recent years [...]

May 3, 2011 This blog has provided many reasons for a company to go “green”, including “The 8 Purely Business Reasons to Go Green”, found on our website: www.CCESworld.com. Well, now a pretty viable 9th one has come up. A recent published study from the University of Minnesota shows that among S&P 500 companies those [...]

As has been written in several previous Environmental News for You the new Mandatory GHG Emission Reporting Rule (40 CFR Part 98) is in effect. There has probably never been a rule in the history of the USEPA with such stringent requirements for monitoring, emission estimation, and reporting. In addition, the USEPA released a draft [...]