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t doesn’t take a leap of faith to understand that the best way to reduce toxic emissions is to not make them in the first place. That’s the simple idea behind pollution prevention: the "best" pollution is the one you never create. Putting that into practice has led companies to re-examine their products and processes with an eye to reducing or eliminating toxic ingredients, recycling or reusing chemicals to keep them out of the waste stream, and using a wide range of alternative materials to replace polluting ones.
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A innovative new technology uses recycled CO2 to color fabric, potentially saving billions of gallons of water and emissions.
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A innovative new technology uses recycled CO2 to color fabric, potentially saving billions of gallons of water and emissions.
The metal mining sector pushed disposal and other releases ot toxic chemicals and metals up 16 percent in 2010, following years of decline....
Despite some utilities already making good progress on reducing mercury and air pollutants from their coal-fired power plants, some in the industry are using delay tactics to try and push back any......
FedEx Express, the cargo airline of FedEx Corp., has completed its latest contribution to the green roof initiative at Chicago's airports....
Want to create 1.9 million American jobs and add $265 billion to the economy? Upgrade our water infrastructure.
Although the saga of Liberty Link's rice escape into the wild poses no threat to humans or the environment, the fact that neither the company that made it nor the government was able to control it......
This week's video from energyNOW! explores potential solutions in two very different locations -- America’s heartland and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef....
Renewed pressure on Apple over pollution shows that green activists in the developing world could transform attitudes to supply chain management in the IT industry....
Five of Apple's suppliers have long histories of environmental pollution and dodging regulations, according to a coalition of green NGOs....
The new rules are the third set of strict efficiency and emissions standards put in place by the Obama Administration to cover cars, light-duty trucks, and now heavy-duty vehicles....
The EPA's Toxic Release Inventory gives us a good look at the 20 states with the most air pollution from power plants -- and brings home the reasons why clean energy is more important than ever.......
What effect does a campaign like Greenpeace's "Dirty Laundry" effort have on the companies targeted and their suppliers?...
EPA and DOE launch 'Most Efficient' product pilot program; The debut of the 'Dirty' Water Act; and Bayer and State Street reveal environmental achievements....
The power of financial incentives to motivate behavior is virtually an unquestioned axiom of business. But what happens when the principle is applied to executive compensation and sustainability......
The agency's new rules aim to slash mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 91 percent....
The state of Washington can move ahead with its strong new energy code now that a U.S. district court judge has rejected a challenge from a building trade group that claimed the code runs afoul of......
A major report from a group of Chinese NGOs accuses the technology giant of 'dodging' questions about its green credentials and workers' rights....
"Poo-Gloos," igloo-shaped domes that clean up wastewater, are able to strip pollution from sewage water as well as large, expensive treatment facilities....
Laws introduced in California over the last 20 years for cleaner fuels and diesel truck engines has had an immediate impact on addressing black carbon, leading to an improvement of the state's......
In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-......
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