| Excerpts: Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 5/13/16. A study is looking into what appears in residents' garbage.
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EPA recently released an updated version (v.14) of the Waste Reduction Model (WARM). WARM calculates the energy and greenhouse emissions of baseline and alternative waste management practices--source reduction, recycling, anaerobic digestion, combustion, composting and landfilling. The newly added anaerobic digestion pathway enables users to quantify the energy and emissions benefits of sending organic materials to a wet or dry digester. Join this webinar to: - Learn how anaerobic digestion was modeled;
- Understand how WARM models organics and the differences between the organics categories such as food waste, yard trimmings, and mixed organics;
- Quantify the GHG emissions and energy impacts of source reducing, donating, and composting food; and
- Discuss questions on the modeling of organics management pathways within WARM.
View more information on this Event: How EPA's Waste Reduction Model (WARM) Quantifies the GHG impacts of Organics Management
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Source: GreenBiz, 5/16/16. The company's Innovation Lab is equal parts research confab and marketing resource.
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This report is the first publication of a multi-year project for guiding and supporting the Engineering & Construction (E&C) industry during its current transformation. The report describes the industry's present state, assesses relevant global trends and their impact on the industry, and devises an industry-transformation framework with key areas for development and action. It also features many best practices and case studies of innovative approaches or solutions, and offers a view -- at different levels, such as at the company-, industry- and sector-level -- of how the future of construction might look. View more information on this resource
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Source: Washington Post, 5/12/16. If you want to understand why it is that on a planet wracked by climate change, people still don't talk much about climate change, then this may be the key: They're people.
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The Quick Chemical Assessment Tool (QCAT) is a simple chemical hazard assessment tool used to evaluate chemicals--such as whether a chemical causes cancer, kills fish, or accumulates in people and animals. Using this standard approach to weigh these hazards means you can compare potential chemical ingredients against each other on a level playing field. View more information on this resource
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The IC2 has developed the Chemical Hazard Assessment Database to enable users to search for GreenScreen and Quick Chemical Assessment Tool (QCAT) assessments. The purpose of this tool is to promote awareness of assessments conducted on chemicals of high concern, facilitate transparency and discussion, and reduce duplication of effort. View more information on this resource
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Source: GreenBiz, 5/13/16. With chemical disclosure on the rise, the mega retailer is one example of a company adjusting the way product ingredients are tracked and disclosed.
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Source: E-Scrap News, 5/12/16. A recently released export tracking study from the Basel Action Network found that roughly one-third of low-value devices dropped off for recycling in the U.S. ended up outside the country. But industry leaders and researchers say the findings do not point to clear conclusions about the amount of e-scrap material sent overseas overall.
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Source: E-Scrap News, 5/12/16. Legislation to update Pennsylvania's struggling e-scrap program has been introduced to the state's General Assembly. The bill comes from Rep. Chris Ross, a Republican who sponsored Pennsylvania's original e-scrap legislation that was signed into law in 2010. The latest e-scrap bill from Ross proposes adding a "supplementary program" to the state's Covered Device Recycling Act. According to analysis from Pennsylvania-based government affairs firm Crisci Associates, manufacturers would be charged with paying all of the costs associated with transporting and recycling material collected in the supplementary program.
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Source: Environmental Leader, 5/11/16. Dell is investigating claims that it exported e-waste in violation of company policy, following a report from a watchdog organization about Dell's e-waste management. The company has had major success collecting and recycling e-waste. Dell has collected more than 1.4 billion pounds of e-waste since 2007, in part through its Reconnect program and its Asset Resale and Recycling Services program for business customers. This initiative allows companies to transport, resell and/or recycle any brand of owned or leased equipment, in an environmentally safe way, while protecting customer's data. The e-waste exporting claims stem from a Basel Action Network (BAN) report on a two-year study that involved placing electronic GPS tracking devices into old hazardous electronic equipment such as printers and computer monitors, and then watching where they traveled across the globe.
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Source: Washington Post, 5/12/16. The Obama administration on Thursday announced a set of much-anticipated -- and first ever -- steps to regulate oil and gas industry emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas second only to carbon dioxide in its role in the climate debate. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new rule that will target emissions from new or modified oil and gas wells -- and prevent 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by the year 2025, the agency said.
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This is the third webinar in ACEEE's series: Energy Efficiency and the Clean Power Plan. The industrial sector represents a big opportunity for low-cost energy savings from utility energy efficiency programs. During this webinar we will hear from Meegan Kelly, ACEEE's senior research analyst for industry, who will discuss the value of industrial energy efficiency programs and highlight the benefits of participating in them. We will also hear from Cassandra Kubes, ACEEE's environmental policy analyst, about how these programs help states comply with the Clean Power Plan. Attendees will learn how industrial energy efficiency and combined heat and power (CHP) provide emission reductions and why states can't afford to ignore industrial efficiency as they piece together compliance plans. Visit ACEEE's Clean Power Plan webpage (http://aceee.org/topics/clean-power-plan) for links to recordings of each webinar as they become available, along with resources on incorporating energy efficiency as a compliance strategy. View more information on this Event: Complying with the Clean Power Plan: An Opportunity for the Industrial Sector
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Please join the U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in collaboration with EPA for the first in a new series of webinars designed to support states considering and implementing evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V) activities to document energy savings and other impacts of energy efficiency programs. In this webinar, our panel of experts will discuss how states are establishing infrastructures, plans and budgets for their evaluations of efficiency programs funded by utility customers (ratepayers). State representatives who have developed EM&V strategies will share their experiences and lessons learned. View more information on this Event: Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation (EM&V) of Energy Efficiency Programs
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Water-efficient landscape irrigation is only achieved by integrating water-smart design, appropriate technology, and execution by knowledgeable professionals. Water agencies, such as the Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC), foster relationships with irrigation professionals to help successfully implement water-efficient irrigation programs. Speakers Melissa Baum-Haley, senior water resource analyst with the MWDOC, Sergio Ramirez, water use efficiency administrator with the Laguna Beach County Water District, and Glen Frohlich, with Glen's Landscape, will provide case studies of how successful relationships between irrigation professionals and utilities helped foster water-efficient landscape irrigation in their communities. View more information on this Event: Relationship Building Between Irrigation Professionals and Utilities
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