Post by account_disabled on Feb 28, 2024 6:01:21 GMT
EPA claims that it violated hazardous waste management, chemical accident prevention, hazardous chemical inventory reporting, and oil pollution prevention rules at its liquid and aerosol packaging facility in Dudley, Mass. The company violated the Clean Air Act, the Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Mass. Hazardous Waste Management Regulations, the EPA said.
Advanced BioEnergy of Bloomington, Minn., agreed to pay penalties of $136,500 to settle claims related to alleged violations at its Huron and Aberdeen, SD ethanol production facilities. The violations are related to the facilities’ risk management programs and the failure to properly file Toxic Release Inventory forms detailing with the use and management of chemicals, the EPA said.
Simon Mills, head of sustainable development for the City of B2B Email List London, wrote that the days when you could claim sustainability is a cost are long gone. Fundamentally, he wrote, sustainability is a tool with which you can use to unpick complex problems and deliver long term, effective resource-efficient solutions. If this wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t see such a high take-up of sustainability amongst businesses, he wrote – it makes pure business sense, both in terms of reduced costs and more importantly, in terms of the enhanced ability to actually solve problems and identify new markets and new products.
The World Resources Institute’s Nigel Sizer, director of the global forests initiative, says real-time forest monitoring systems have helped countries’ enforcement efforts. In the Brazilian Amazon, for example, deforestation rates have dropped 80 percent since 2004, Sizer says. And Gabon is investing millions of dollars to improve access to satellite imagery and remote sensing for a new forest management program.
But, Sizer says, those responsible for forests in many countries still lack access to timely information on what is happening to their forests. Information is not up to date, it is expensive to gather, and the information-gathering process is very technical. This is a problem in both developing and developed countries, he says.
Global Forest Watch 2.0, using satellite and remote sensing technology combined with human networks, aims to address these barriers to sustainable forest management, the groups involved say.
Advanced BioEnergy of Bloomington, Minn., agreed to pay penalties of $136,500 to settle claims related to alleged violations at its Huron and Aberdeen, SD ethanol production facilities. The violations are related to the facilities’ risk management programs and the failure to properly file Toxic Release Inventory forms detailing with the use and management of chemicals, the EPA said.
Simon Mills, head of sustainable development for the City of B2B Email List London, wrote that the days when you could claim sustainability is a cost are long gone. Fundamentally, he wrote, sustainability is a tool with which you can use to unpick complex problems and deliver long term, effective resource-efficient solutions. If this wasn’t the case, you wouldn’t see such a high take-up of sustainability amongst businesses, he wrote – it makes pure business sense, both in terms of reduced costs and more importantly, in terms of the enhanced ability to actually solve problems and identify new markets and new products.
The World Resources Institute’s Nigel Sizer, director of the global forests initiative, says real-time forest monitoring systems have helped countries’ enforcement efforts. In the Brazilian Amazon, for example, deforestation rates have dropped 80 percent since 2004, Sizer says. And Gabon is investing millions of dollars to improve access to satellite imagery and remote sensing for a new forest management program.
But, Sizer says, those responsible for forests in many countries still lack access to timely information on what is happening to their forests. Information is not up to date, it is expensive to gather, and the information-gathering process is very technical. This is a problem in both developing and developed countries, he says.
Global Forest Watch 2.0, using satellite and remote sensing technology combined with human networks, aims to address these barriers to sustainable forest management, the groups involved say.