The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released pollution permitting guidance for state and local environmental agencies, detailing how to apply Best Available Control Technology (BACT) requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from large new polluters.
Chinese suppliers can improve their business performance by adopting high environmental standards, according to a new working paper by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). The paper, “Greening Supply Chains in China,” highlights the experiences of five companies in China that have worked to improve their environmental performance.
By Stephanie Hanson, compiled by Aliza Wasserman on September 20, 2010
While federal climate
change legislation has
stalled, federal agencies,
states, and Congress made
some progress on controlling
greenhouse gas emissions in
the past two years.
The German Embassy and the World Resources Institute will be hosting an event to discuss policies for Germany and the United States to move to a low-carbon future, as part of the German government’s “Transatlantic Climate Bridge” initiative.
The InterAcademy Council (IAC) released a report today detailing its findings on the processes and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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