A legislation barring apparel and textile vendors from supplying goods made under sweatshop conditions to Missouri’s St. Louis County has been introduced by its Councilman Mr. Pat Dolan. The proposed bill aims to prevent the ...
Tags: St Louis County, Sweatshop-Made Apparels, apparel and textile vendors
The European Commission today launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar glass from China. The initiation is based on a complaint lodged by the association EU ProSun Glass, which claims solar glass from China is being ...
The Lincolnshire County Council has announced it will launch an ambitious plan to cut its energy costs and carbon footprint by as much as 22 per cent in the next five years. New measures that are expected to be in place from next month ...
Tags: LED street lighting, LED lighting, LED
As part of a major traffic route improvement scheme, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council has demonstrated its commitment to sustainability and environmental welfare with continued investment in LED lighting upgrades. Sandwell Council ...
Tags: WRTL, Street Lighting News, lighting industry, LED lighting
The number of North American households connected directly into fiber networks has hit the 9 million mark, with small incumbent telephone companies continuing to lead the growth in fiber to the home deployments, according to the ...
Tags: North American households, fiber networks, FTTH services
Bath and North East Somerset Council has announced that it will be consulting local resident associations and heritage groups in order to ascertain the best way to roll out its new LED lighting development of the World Heritage-listed City ...
An MP has slammed Whitehall officials for not attending the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council's Conference 2013, claiming that the government "does not know enough". Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and shadow minister for the ...
Malvern's iconic buzzards are set to soar come rain or shine every day and night following a decision to illuminate them with energy efficient floodlights. Members of Malvern Town Council have voted to light up the statue, in Rosebank ...
Tags: LED lights, LED lighting, LED
With councils the nation over looking to slash operational costs and reduce energy bills wherever possible, it is no surprise that Derbyshire County Council has turned to LEDs in a bid to save money on lighting in its bus shelters. ...
Tags: LED initiative, LED, LED lighting
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been fined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Three DVDs containing confidential information about two children went missing during ...
Tags: Data Protection Act, Nursing and Midwifery Council, ICO
After a five-year gap, the iconic Blackpool Tower has been illuminated to light up the sky. Indeed, on Tuesday (February 12th) the new LED light bulbs were switched on in celebratory fashion to mark that 10,000 old energy guzzling ...
Tags: Blackpool Tower, illumination, lighting
Hundreds of bus stops in the Derbyshire region are set to be fitted with LED light bulbs as a way of saving money and energy. Indeed, nearly 400 shelters in the county will have fluorescent light tubes replaced by LED lighting in order to ...
Tags: bus stops, LED light bulbs, LED lighting
As an indicator of the continued economic recovery of the material handling, supply chain and logistics industry, U.S. and international attendees registered in record numbers for ProMat 2013—the premier North American manufacturing ...
Tags: ProMat, supply chain, logistics industry
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Beecroft (pictured) hosted a reception at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to commemorate International Human Rights. The event was attended by members of the Council of Representatives’ Human Rights ...
Germany’s Federal Minister of Transport, Building, and Urban Development, Peter Ramsauer, led a business delegation to Erbil to meet Kurdistan Regional Government officials and participate in the first Germany-Kurdistan Region ...
Tags: Building, Urban Development, Economic Forum