The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its fiscal year (FY) 2014 to 2018 Strategic Plan today, which provides a blueprint for advancing EPA's mission to protect public health and the environment across the country. The plan ...
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Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
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Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA) condemns the decision by the Federal Government to cut all funding to ECA and to abandon its ethical procurement guidelines. This decision will harm vulnerable home workers and ethical Australian businesses ...
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H&M launches its new Conscious and Conscious Exclusive collections. With two new materials, organic leather from the Swedish leather supplier Tärnsjö, and organic silk, the collections show what can be done in more sustainable ...
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British farmer-owned dairy co-operative First Milk and cheese supplier Adams Foods have completed their long-term, strategic, cheese supply partnership. The move comes after the deal received approval from the UK's Office of Fair Trading ...
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Building on its leadership in corporate social responsibility efforts, Fruit of the Loom, Inc., has been named a recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leadership Award. The award – a Goal Setting Certificate ...
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The standard will see the introduction of safe, high quality and energy efficient lighting products to the UAE market, as well as the phasing out of low quality, inefficient lighting products. These measures will reduce energy consumption ...
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Fruit of the Loom, Inc., which designs, makes and markets Spalding and Russell Athletic apparel, has been named a recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leadership Award for committing to reducing its carbon ...
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DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified with time, as more than 20 per cent of shipping could adopt ...
ABB has been awarded the Zayed Future Energy Prize 2014 in "recognition of its efforts to drive innovation, renewable energy and energy efficiency". "We will ensure that ABB serves as a role model to promote the prize as an incentive to ...
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Australia's central role in the formation of the Asian Aerosol Federation (AAF) has prompted the federation to meet in Sydney next year during aerosolsydney2014, the triennial conference of the Aerosol Association of Australia. The Asian ...
Qatar Petroleum(QP)and Qatar Petrochemical Company(QAPCO)have revealed the logo of the Al Sejeel Petrochemical Complex,bearing the colors of the Qatari flag,and also announced the award of the project's Front-End Engineering and ...
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
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Cornell University engineers have developed a new Smartphone Cholesterol Application for Rapid Diagnostics, or ‘smartCARD’, that employs the Smartphone’s camera to read the cholesterol level. With this lifesaving app, ...
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At the 75th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held recently in Paris, Alacero, the Latin American steel association, said the current situation in the steel industry is becoming critical ...
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