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Steel is a key element of any domestic emissions reduction scenario because the steel industry (including iron production) is among the largest energy consumers in the manufacturing sector. Purchasing renewable energy, investing in low-carbon technologies, working to improve energy efficiency, and offering new products and services aimed at reducing emissions are all meaningful strategies for the steel industry to undertake.
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A Motorola exec returns to the Congo to examine a site claimed to be free of conflict minerals.
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A system put in place in 2007 at Alcoa's Jamaican mining operations has saved the company more than $1.5 million in energy costs and cutting fuel use -- reducing emissions and saving energy at the...
UPS' new electric vehicles, a lawsuit over the word "natural," and country and company responses to China's rare earth metal restrictions are among the stories we're looking at...
Traceability and transparency take center stage as Motorola tests a conflict-free supply chain for minerals from the Congo.
U.S. funds for a corn waste ethanol plant, a new U.K. carbon reduction goal that could curb the government's business class flights, and Motorola's plans to source conflict-free minerals...
The new law requiring U.S. public companies that use tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold to trace them back to their source calls for unprecedented transparency in supply chains. But will it end the...
Two tech industry groups have updated a voluntary program aimed at tracing the supply chains of minerals used in electronics to ensure they're not continuing to fund violence in central Africa.
With China maintaining tight control over its rare earth mineral supplies, prices for the materials that are used in hybrid car batteries have spiked in recent months.
Putting an embargo on minerals from war-torn areas of Congo will only lead to more conflict, unemployment, and poverty. What's needed is more investment in supply chains.
With a massive new mining facility in Malaysia under construction, it appears that more of the world is waking up to the potential risks of leaving the materials crucial to technology in China's...
The race is on to establish supply chain standards capable of tackling Congo's conflict minerals ahead of new U.S. legislation.
More than 50 jewelers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska.
The materials are critical to a number of technology products, especially hybrid cars and cell phones; with China holding nearly all the world's stores of the materials, Hitachi aims to make...
Under a new SEC rule, a key deadline to file information on corporations' sources of "conflict minerals" used in electronics is fast approaching. Although industry is working with NGOs...
For investors and financial institutions, water risks in the mining sector are difficult to track. But even though investors and financial institutions may not be fully aware of these risks, they...
This paper outlines potential water-related risks facing the mining industry and highlights important gaps in water-related disclosure.
The Recovery Act is spending big money in surprising places, including cleantech startups that have yet to find a market and a company that makes mining equipment for coal-fired power plants.
The financial reform law's requirements for conflict-free sourcing of electronics materials is a good step, but abandoning the DRC altogether is a knee-jerk reaction that won't fix the country's...
In spring, about the time the press coverage of the Gulf oil spill cranked into high gear, Shelton Group conducted a poll to see whether the event was affecting mindset of Americans on energy. The...
A number of big banks are under fire to stop funding mountaintop removal mining, and none more so than JPMorgan Chase, whose green talk doesn't match its stride.
A pilot project launched by some of the world's largest IT firms aims to establish the provenance of tin and other metals exported from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.
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