U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary (USDA) Tom Vilsack, Mike Boots of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Commonwealth of Virginia ...
Tags: Water Quality, Agriculture
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $54 million plan submitted by Delaware for clean water projects, including efforts that will improve local water quality by eliminating failing septic systems, and reduce greenhouse ...
Tags: septic systems, water quality, Agriculture
The worldwide solar market demand in 2014 was approximately at 44GW, even though the China market did not perform as well as expectations, due to the continuous growth in Japan and the U.S. market, the supply and demand remained stable. At ...
Tags: Solar Demand, Solar Cell
Mid-market pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired Europe's leading ethical plastic bottle recycler Eco Plastics for an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Aurelius will supply its highly specialised operational improvement ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle, Eco Plastics, Agriculture
In the past two weeks, China's stock market, long the subject of neglect, became a public focus, indicating the likely arrival of a bull market period. From Nov. 24 to Dec.5, 2014, the Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indexes rose by 18.13 ...
Tags: Stock Market, bull market
The BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index for November 2014 shows that overall shop prices reported deflation for the nineteenth consecutive month, unchanged at 1.9% in November. Non-food deflation slowed marginally to 2.9% in November from 3.1% in ...
Tags: Non-food prices, Furniture
Volvo has started a production program for the development of a lightweight 3-cylinder petrol engine. The Drive-E 3-cylinder engine is expected to join the 4-cylinder Drive-E engines of the company and will be developed in Sweden. ...
Tags: Volvo, 3-Cylinder Engine
Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
With special thanks to ford-trucks.com. The team at Transport and Logistics News wishes every one of our advertisers, 12,000-plus subscribers and thousands of more readers a safe, relaxing and joyful Christmas and New Year holiday season. ...
Tags: online commerce industry, Service
No, it’s not April’s fool day… Boeing and South African Airways are looking forward to the first harvest of energy-rich tobacco to make sustainable aviation biofuel. The pioneering project supports South Africa’s ...
Tags: energy-rich tobacco, Service
The technical textiles sector in India is likely to grow at 20 per cent per annum till 2016-17, Union Minister for Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar has said. Speaking at the launch of curtain-raiser of TECHNOTEX 2015 in Mumbai, ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, Textiles
China's export was far less than expected in November, crude oil and other commodity prices tumbled to the unexpectedly sharp drop in imports, the trade surplus hit a record high. China's economy is facing more downward pressure. China's ...
Tags: China's export, crude oil
Bosch Packaging Technology and Klenzaids Contamination Controls are planning a joint venture in India that they intend to use to extend their global reach, particularly in liquid pharmaceuticals and packaging machines for clean-room ...
2015 is set to see property across Asia Pacific experience a continued increase in investment volumes, improved tenant demand and structural change across various sectors. According to Colliers International’s 2015 Asia Pacific ...
The two-year REFLEX project, funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, aims to create a circular economy for flexible packaging – from confectionery wrappers to detergent pouches – by involving the whole supply ...