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Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/11/2009

As the U.S. House of Representatives considers how far the EPA should go in regulating chemicals used in everyday products, trade groups are cautioning against over-regulation.The Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection took comments on the EPA’s proposed overhaul the 1976 T ...

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Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency

Posted by Environmental Leader on 16/11/2009

Supermarkets are taking different roads to efficiency like Star Market in Massachusetts, aimed at reducing emissions, and Brookshire Grocery in Texas, which is addressing fleet efficiency.Star Market Newton, Mass., is the first grocery store in the U.S. to receive the Environmental Protection Age ...

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Wal-Mart Thinks Big With Smaller Stores

Posted by Environmental Leader on 04/11/2009

Future Wal-Mart locations will be about 8 percent smaller and cost 16 percent less to build, as the retail giant seeks to reduce waste throughout its operations.The store sizing effort is part of Wal-Mart’s Project Impact, which will see through a remodeling and repositioning of many locati ...

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DOE Shows Commercial Builders How to Achieve 50% Energy Savings

Posted by Environmental Leader on 28/10/2009

Building owners in four key commercial building sectors will now be able to achieve a 50-percent energy savings with the help of new technical documents that show how to achieve higher levels of performance.New technical support documents from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the DOE natio ...

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NRDC Criticizes 7-Eleven Banana Packaging

Posted by Environmental Leader on 12/10/2009

C-store giant 7-Eleven thought it was onto something good when it began testing individual plastic packaging designed to a keep banana yellow and firm for five days, as opposed to brown and turning to mush on the shelf.After all, “customers want yellow bananas – not brown,” said ...

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