The researchers show that reduced meat, milk and egg consumption has two effects: a direct one which means significantly lower emissions of methane and nitrous oxide and an indirect one through land being made available which can be used for bioenergy cultivation.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has granted W2E a solid waste permit for its planned anaerobic digestion facility in Columbia.
Park City, Utah, hit pay dirt with an anaerobic biochemical reactor that removed more than 99 percent of cadmium and zinc from shallow groundwater.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement is developing a programmatic environmental impact statement for the Outer Continental Shelf and is seeking public comment.
The redesign of a filtration system by the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory is expected to help the DOE Office of Environmental Management drastically reduce cost and infrastructure for the treatment and permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
The jury found that Nestlé’s environmental practices have been guided over the long-term by its “Creating Shared Value” approach to business
Two year's into his term, Obama gets good grades for greenhouse gas endangerment finding but poor ones for endangered species from the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Health Effects Institute will develops tools to examine the combined effects of air pollution exposures on public health and the relationship between air quality and climate change.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network claim that the agency has failed to properly protect more than 200 endangered and threatened species from harmful pesticides.
The program will assess environmental opportunities across participating private equity firms' portfolios and suggest strategies to capture value.
Cancer Prevention Coalition head offers up evidence that the chemical is linked to bone cancer in young boys.
EPCOR will reportedly purchase these water and wastewater services for an estimated $470 million.
The former Kentucky utility director started Jan. 24 as WEF’s new executive director.
As a first step, the organizations will combine forces at the April Water Matters! Fly In.
Agency continues review of public comments for an E15 pump label to help ensure consumers use the correct fuel.
Some changes to the new training criteria that trades in California have made include plumbers adding geothermal and hydroponic solar water systems to their core training skills and electricians incorporating energy-efficient systems.
A fleet of 15 electric vehicles is helping the Department of Natural Resources save money as it maintains state park facilities.
Biologists at Virginia Commonwealth University found that an additional 2.5 centimeters of growth allowed a farm oyster to remove 2.2 times the nutrients of a regular oyster.
EPA says comments shed new light on key areas and that the agency plans to propose significantly different standards from what was proposed last year.
Unilever and Paques have begun construction of a bio-digester at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Hellendoorn, the Netherlands. Waste products released during the production of ice cream will be converted into energy, comprising 40 percent of the ice cream factory's green energy requirements.