China will accelerate the overhaul of its overly-invested iron and steel sector to bring it back to a "basically balanced level" by 2017, the industry ministry said. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it would ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Iron Steel
The initiative covers three main areas – the company’s manufacturing processes, product design and facilities – and involves close working partnerships with its customers and employees. In its manufacturing operations, ...
Tags: Rieke, re-usable products
EPA Region 7 released new data today that shows air quality around the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo., is consistent with what is found elsewhere in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area, and in other major Midwest ...
Tags: Air Quality, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, Construction
L’Oreal Americas and Avery Dennison haveteamed up to identify and reduce the environmental impacts of packaging labels throughout the entire label lifecycle. Both companies have already published a comprehensive Avery Dennison ...
Tags: material suppliers, printers, consumers, Agriculture
The first College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship is leading the way in environmental stewardship by incorporating sustainability as a key part of its operations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing CFP, Kay ...
Tags: renewable energy, solid waste, Construction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Ohio State University, today released a risk assessment concluding that silica-based spent foundry sands from iron, steel ...
Tags: air quality, enhancing state, Construction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals (coal ash) from coal-fired power plants. The final rule establishes safeguards to ...
Tags: coal ash, ground water, Construction
WASHINGTON — EPA announced it is adding five hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites and is proposing to add three additional sites to the ...
Tags: EPA, Sites, Electronics
The China Association of Metalscrap Utilization has been lobbying the central government to lower the 17% tax on steel scrap sales to help increase its utilization in steelmaking, CAMU Secretary General Li Shubin said at the 7th China ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Metal, Mineral
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northeastern Nebraska, and the Tribe’s Utilities Commission have reached a settlement with the United States to improve the Tribe’s drinking ...
Tags: EPA, certification
DALLAS – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $450,000 to the New Mexico Environment Department as the first funding portion of an annual $900,000 state program continuing grant. The grant helps to fund the ...
Tags: EPA, Mexico Environment Department, Service
Graphic Packaging International, an American paperboard producer for beverages and other consumer goods, will invest $41.5m in the company’s paper mill in West Monroe for upgrading machinery. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and ...
TOKYO — At a recycling center in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Fuji Xerox disassembles some 4,000 tons a year of its used printers collected from various parts of Asia. Materials are sorted into nearly 90 different types, such ...
Tags: Fuji, Electrical, Electronics
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $500,000 in supplemental funding to help the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control clean up contaminated Brownfields properties In South ...
Tags: EPA, Health, Service, certification
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $150,000 in supplemental funding to help clean up contaminated Brownfields properties In North Carolina. The Revolving Loan Funds (RLF) will help the Land-of-Sky ...
Tags: EPA, Brownfields Properties, Protection, Certfication