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Why Google, BASF and Sephora are coming together on safer chemistry

GreenBiz

Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory, although the EPA total for recent output is less than 9,000. The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards.

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How AMD Is Advancing Energy Efficiency for IT Users

3BL Media

Estimates of CO 2 reduction and tree seedlings grown based on the EPA greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator [link] gov/energy/greenhouse-gas- equivalencies-calculator. pdf and the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator used in this analysis can be found at [link] greenhouse-gas-equivalencies- calculator. Results may vary.

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Kohler Co. Outlines Strategy, Ambitions, and Progress in 2022 ESG Report

3BL Media

EPA WaterSense-labeled offering by certifying 85 new products across toilets, bathroom faucets and showerheads. In 2022, Kohler also expanded its efforts to promote energy resiliency and resource conservation, as well as innovations in renewable and clean energy solutions. Kohler Kitchen and Bath continued to lead in U.S.

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Principal® Earns ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award

3BL Media

2 Since 2008, Principal has achieved 14% energy savings, avoided more than $48 million in cumulative energy costs, and prevented more than 135 thousand metric tons of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions 3. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions.

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More solution than pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

“We may have started out in 1994 as a simple generic contract grower”, said owner, Tom Butler, “but starting with improvements through the EPA ’s Clean Water Act, we wanted to do whatever we could to lessen our impact on the environment and our community”.

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Is the IMO Turning the Tide on Transition?

Chris Hall

The new strategy introduces crucial new “indicative checkpoints”: a 20-30% reduction in emissions from international shipping by 2030, and a minimum 70% reduction in emissions by 2040, relative to 2008 levels. The 2040 target will require a 90-95% reduction in an average ship’s GHG intensity.

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Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 4, Episode 2 - Nitty Gritty on Net-Zero

3BL Media

And this is 2008 ish is what I'm talking about, and there were two rounds. So back in the, not the previous administration, obviously, but in the administration before that, a bunch of companies from the cooling and heating sector got together. We went back last year to check how much has been achieved. 00:25:14] Scott: 200, 000? [00:25:16]

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