Environment is the complex web of physical, chemical, biological, social, and cultural conditions that influence an organism or an ecological community.
General Electric Appliances (GE) President and CEO Larry Johnston will sign an historic energy efficiency and water savings agreement in Washington, D.C. today with environmental groups, energy efficiency advocates, utilities, and state governments and other appliance manufacturers. The agreement commits the parties to...
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ACK) said today that its wood products operations division (Triangle Pacific Corp.) will only purchase gatewood timber from companies who can certify that it was harvested by loggers trained in the industry's "Best Management Practices" (BMP) program. Implementation...
The Mead Corporation’s Coated Board division recently initiated a third-party audit of its forestry operations. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP conducted the audit under the American Forest & Paper Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative(SM) (SFI) (SM) voluntary verification program. The results of the independent audit indicate that...
Weyerhaeuser Company’s Grande Prairie/Grande Cache Forestlands division has achieved certification to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard. Registration followed a thorough independent audit by the Quality Management Institute, a division of the Canadian Standards Association. Weyerhaeuser’s Grande Prairie/Grande Cache Forestlands manages...
3M today announced it is phasing out of the perfluorooctanyl chemistry used to produce certain repellents and surfactant products. The affected product lines represent about two percent of 3M's nearly $16 billion in annual sales. These include many Scotchgard products, such as soil,...
Weyerhaeuser Company today announced the release of its 1999 Annual Environment, Health and Safety Report. For the first time in the seven years that the company has produced this report, information about health and safety performance has been included. This Weyerhaeuser centennial edition...
Jefferson B. Seabright will join Texaco in the newly created position of Vice President, Policy Planning effective May 15, it was announced today by Texaco Chairman and CEO Peter I. Bijur. Seabright currently serves as Executive Director of the White House Climate Change...
Seven global energy companies announced today that they have joined forces to research and develop advanced carbon dioxide (CO2) separation and geologic storage technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BP Amoco, Chevron, Norsk Hydro, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies, Statoil, Suncor...
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