The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
Buildings consume more than 70 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. Much of that energy goes wasted due to building inefficiencies. It is well documented that improving building energy efficiency can reduce energy use and costs by up to 50 percent. So why don’t more building owners take steps to improve building energy...
For hospitals, going green can be a challenge. However, the health care industry has been making important changes so that facilities become not only stewards of patients, but also stewards of the earth. “Because of their 24-hour nature and the need for infection control, hospitals have, historically, been one of the biggest generators of waste...
By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Manufacturing.Net – January 21, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two thirds of drivers could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday. The agency said that 15 percent ethanol blended with gasoline is safe for cars and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001...
January 19, 2011 President Barack Obama has promised to ease “absurd and unnecessary paperwork requirements” – and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not immune. Obama yesterday signed an executive order directing agencies to remove outdated regulations that have a negative impact on the economy. The president outlined the order in a Wall Street Journal...
Deadline is January 10 The January 10, 2011, compliance date for the Environmental Protection Agency’s “6H” surface coating rule is fast approaching. The official name for this rule is the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Paint Stripping and Miscellaneous Surface Coating Operations at Area Sources* (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart HHHHHH)....
Gear for smart, connected homes may give you consumers fine-grained control over home energy, but ThinkEco has got a light-weight approach to saving electricity. At the Consumer Electronics Shows here, ThinkEco said that a consumer version of its connected plug and software will be available this spring for $50. Additional plugs cost $44.95. The company’s...
By Aimee Siegler In the electronics industry, 2010 has been a year of awakening to the need for corporate social responsibility. There have been drivers from all directions, from the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) to Greenpeace to new standards, and all have had an impact on the industry. The EICC requires its members to...
EPA released a guidance aimed mainly at old school buildings on the proper handling and disposal of PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts and how to safely retrofit them to fully remove the hazard. EPA banned PCBs in 1979, but some PCB-containing ballasts were allowed to continue, provided they were not defective or leaking. For more information...
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