Environmental Resources

NEWARK, N.J- Leading environmental organizations -- Clean Water Action, the Connecticut Coalition for Clean Air, and the Clean Air Task Force -- and PSEG Power Connecticut, owner of the 375-megawatt Bridgeport Harbor (Bridgeport, CT) coal-fired power plant today issue...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Dow Chemical Company and The World Resources Institute have announced that Dow is joining the Green Power Market Development Group. The announcement was made jointly during the Sixth Sustainable Enterprise Summit in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Earth Day Network (EDN) sends representatives to the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan

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EDN’s Charlotte Youngblood and Laura O’Laughlin will be participating in the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto, Shi...

KNOXVILLE, TN - Alcoa Rigid Packaging, one of Alcoa's largest business units, announced today the selection of 16 companies to receive Alcoa UBC Supplier Quality Awards for shipments of outstanding quality used beverage containers (UBCs) in 2002. Suppliers are nomina...

DALLAS, TX - Kinko's, Inc. today announced a new forest-based product procurement policy incorporating a strict set of vendor requirements and establishing a central set of recycled content standards. Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has hailed Kinko's new policy as o...

Paris - Faced with "inertia at the leadership level", the global water crisis will reach unprecedented levels in the years ahead with "growing per capita scarcity of water in many parts of the developing world", according to a United Nations report made public today. ...

RIDGWAY, CO - This spring, the Institute of Ecolonomics (IOE) will embark on the Drive to Survive, an ambitious cross-country journey from Los Angeles to Washington DC to demonstrate the viability and availability of hybrid and alternative-fuel vehicles and to "Drive ...

PITTSBURGH & REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Althingi, Iceland's parliament, today approved legislation that will allow the conclusion of a contract to construct Alcoa's proposed Fjardaal primary aluminum smelter in Eastern Iceland. The vote passed by a strong majority -- 41...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) announced today that John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) at the Department of State, will present the opening plenar...

PHILADELPHIA,PA - Radnor Township announced today that it will purchase 62% of its electricity from pollution-free, wind-generated electricity, making it the nation's leading wind energy purchaser among municipalities.

The electri...