Environment News
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New Study Links Weed-Killer Glyphosate with Autism
A new study has been published in a peer-reviewed journal about the links between the weed-killer glyphosate (RoundUpTM) and autism. The World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer published a summary in March 2015 that classified glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in humans. - March 07, 2017 - The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc.
Mosquito Hunters Can Help You Take Back Your Yard
Former Tampa school teacher and mosquito hater Brandon Allen has opened the first Mosquito Hunters in Florida. Mosquito Hunters treats yards and common areas with environmentally friendly products that are custom designed specifically based on the size of the area and the plants in the landscaping. - March 06, 2017 - Mosquito Hunters
Forestry Commission Educates Public on Outdoor Fire Safety - Wildfire Prevention Month (March)
March is Wildfire Prevention Month in Mississippi as stated by Governor Phil Bryant’s proclamation. Historically, March has one of the highest wildfire occurrence rates of the year due to the weather transition from winter to spring, dry vegetation, and windy conditions. Since January 1,... - March 04, 2017 - Mississippi Forestry Commission
North Florida Land Trust Welcomes New Development Director to Their Team
Dana Doody has joined the organization to lead the fundraising efforts - March 04, 2017 - North Florida Land Trust
Keep Irving Beautiful and Nimitz FFA Students Hold Park Cleanup - Trinity View Event Part of “National FFA Week”
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and the Nimitz High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter joined forces for a cleanup as part of “National FFA Week.” The students, who were joined by their teachers and North Lake College Service Learning students, met on the chilly Saturday morning... - March 04, 2017 - Keep Irving Beautiful
Environmental Health Services, Inc. Looking Ahead to Worst Termite Season Ever Seen Predicted by Experts in 2017
Two Dangerous New Exotic Species Mating to Potentially Create the Most Destructive Hybrid Termite in the World - March 04, 2017 - Environmental Health Services, Inc.
Environmental Health Services, Inc. is Working to Stop Use of Honeybee Killing "Neonic" Pesticides
Local environmentally-conscious pest control company, Environmental Health Services, Inc. is working to change its industry from within, making it more environmentally friendly. - March 03, 2017 - Environmental Health Services, Inc.
Keep Irving Beautiful and North Lake Join for Beautification Project - Service Learning Students Paint at Southwest Park
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and North Lake College students and staff have collaborated on many activities over the years, including cleanups, recycling events, tree plantings and beautification projects. One of the groups involved is North Lake’s Service Learning Program, which KIB has... - February 24, 2017 - Keep Irving Beautiful
USD 4 Billion Market Potential of ZLD Across 5 Industries by 2020 (by Sustainability Outlook (Division of cKinetics))
March to Sustainability: Zero Liquid Discharge, an in-depth market assessment report, quantifies the market opportunity for ZLD at USD 4 billion (INR 270billion) across five water intensive and highly polluting industries in India, i.e. Thermal Power (coal fired), Distillery (molasses based), Iron... - February 24, 2017 - ckinetics
John Heft of New Day Underwriting Managers to Address Environmental Exposures & Claims at 2017 IRMI Energy Risk & Insurance Conference
John Heft, senior vice president and director of the real estate practice at New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a leading construction-related professional liability and environmental resource firm for retail insurance agents and brokers, will address the “Environmental Exposures & Claims... - February 22, 2017 - R-T Specialty, LLC's Environmental & Construction Professional Practice
Actor Bill Pullman to Deliver Commencement Address at Warren Wilson College
Bill Pullman will underscore the importance of community in a speech at his sons' alma mater in Asheville, North Carolina. He plans to look closely at the idea of “changing the world.” With so many different changemakers trying to engage in different ways, Pullman said it is harder to know what a new and “changed” world looks like. - February 17, 2017 - Warren Wilson College
Superior Ink Printing Starts 2017 with a Greener Mission
Superior Ink Printing is proud to announce they have received the Certifiably Green Denver Certificate after a year-long effort to convert their business to a greener more sustainable platform. - February 16, 2017 - Lori's Original Lemonade
EMLab P&K Helps Florida Mold Testing Companies with Patent-Pending Mold Lab Reports
EMLab P&K supports mold testing professionals in Florida with over 1,000 MoldRANGE™ Local Climate reports. The lab report provides better insights for outdoor mold spore levels in the zip code where the mold sampling took place. - February 11, 2017 - EMLab P&K IAQ Laboratory
Badger Truck Equipment Named Exclusive Wisconsin Dealer for Schmidt Snow and Ice Equipment
Badger Truck Equipment installs first Schmidt Stratos spreaders in Wisconsin for Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties. - February 09, 2017 - Badger Truck Center
Stream Restoration Contractors Reclaim Profits with Wise Business Plans
Wise Business Plans is now offering strategic marketing research and analysis to map and define an effective, goal-oriented path toward expansion for owners and entrepreneurs in the stream and creek restoration business community. - February 09, 2017 - Wise Business Plans
Local Green Pest Control Company EHS Celebrates 30+ Years in Business
Environmental Health Services, Inc. has worked since its inception to set a new environmental standard in pest control. - February 09, 2017 - Environmental Health Services, Inc.
Horizon’s Air-Cooled Fuel Cells Power Electric Buses Around the World
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is changing the game in Fuel Cell range extenders for electric vehicles. Typically air-cooled Fuel Cell stacks weren't suitable for such applications, but all that changes with Horizon's latest developments. This makes systems simpler and cheaper for integrators and builders of electric vehicles. - February 07, 2017 - Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies
Keep Irving Beautiful and Calvary Church Beautify Heritage Park - “Loving Our City” Volunteers Paint Original Library Building
As part of its Faith Groups Outreach Program, Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) teamed with volunteers from Calvary Church for a beautification project at Heritage Park in Downtown Irving on Saturday, January 28. Seven Calvary members, who are part of the “Loving Our City” group, gave 28... - February 05, 2017 - Keep Irving Beautiful
Global Renewables Investments Signs Its First PPA In Iran for a 10 MW Solar Project
On January 29th 2017 Global Renewables Investments together with their local joint venture partner SheedSun Co attended an official ceremony at SUNA headquarters at the Ministry of Energy to sign their first Power Purchase Agreement, the culmination of months of work, negotiation and collaboration. - February 04, 2017 - Global Renewables Investments B.V.
Fort Lauderdale Mold & Legionella Lab Celebrates 14 Years Serving Florida
EMLab P&K’s Fort Lauderdale microbiology laboratory is honored to support Florida communities for 14 years by serving professionals who perform testing for mold, Legionella, bacteria, and more. - February 04, 2017 - EMLab P&K IAQ Laboratory
Joseph Buono Promoted to Senior Account Manager in Real Estate Group of New Day Underwriting Managers
Joseph Buono has been promoted to Senior Account Manager within the Real Estate Practice of New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a leading specialty intermediary of environmental and construction-related professional liability insurance coverages. He is responsible for supporting the company’s... - February 03, 2017 - R-T Specialty, LLC's Environmental & Construction Professional Practice
American Group Joins U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership
Leading Logistics Firm Embraces Green Initiatives by Partnering with EPA's SmartWay - February 01, 2017 - New American Group d/b/a American Group, LLC
Keep America Beautiful Recognizes Keep Irving Beautiful and Irving Code Enforcement
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and the City of Irving Code Enforcement Department were recently honored at the Keep America Beautiful National Awards Ceremony. The event took place during Keep America Beautiful 2017 National Conference in Washington, D.C., where KIB and Code Enforcement were among the... - February 01, 2017 - Keep Irving Beautiful
Former Sustainability and Governance Expert at Goldman Sachs AM Joins Leaders Arena to Advise Companies
Leaders Arena (LA), a London-based ESG corporate advisor, further expands in the US and Canada with the appointment of Heather Keough, former head of Sustainable Investing at Goldman Sachs AM. In a recent study, LA valued the ESG investor market opportunity for listed companies at USD 2.25tn. - January 31, 2017 - Leaders Arena Limited
Inaugural Class of GW Congressional Nuclear Security Fellows Selected
Fellows will spend one year working on nuclear security issues in the House of Representatives. - January 31, 2017 - Elliott School of International Affairs
Global Environmental Monitoring Market to Register 7.7% CAGR Through 2021
The global market for environmental monitoring is anticipated to grow at a 7.7% CAGR, according to new report by MarketsandMarkets recently added at MarketPublishers.com. - January 25, 2017 - TD The Market Publishers, Ltd
PathogenDx and Emerald Scientific Enter Into Distribution Agreement to Supply PDx-C Ultra-Rapid Pathogen Detection Kits to Testing Labs Nationally
PathogenDx, an Arizona-based biotechnology company, has developed a disruptive testing technology for pathogen detection for the botanical, food, and Ag testing markets. The company entered into a national sales and distribution agreement with Emerald Scientific to supply it PDx-C Ultra-Rapid kit that can detect pathogens in less than 6 hours to testing labs focused on the cannabis market. Emerald Scientific is the leading national supplier to cannabis testing labs in the United States. - January 24, 2017 - PathogenDx
The Barn at Walnut Hill
Poole & Poole Architecture renovates historic barn into 21st century green technology home. - January 12, 2017 - The Wright Scoop
Refresh Your Water Bottles This World Wetlands Day
A unique initiative set to revolutionise the bottled water industry are seeking founding partners in time for World Wetlands Day 2017. Bottles for trees will work directly inline with mineral water Branding companies, who will benefit from the associated PR generated by the initiative. Enhance environmental landscapes and reverse negative stigmas attached to plastic pollution. - January 12, 2017 - Green Earth Appeal
North Florida Land Trust Had a Historic Year by Tripling the Land Conserved in 2016
More than 12,000 acres of land preserved last year - January 11, 2017 - North Florida Land Trust
CrowdReviews.com Partnered with GSMI Announce Green Data Center Conference's Return to San Diego
GSMI announces the return of the Green Data Center Conference (GDCON), this February 21st -23rd to San Diego for the 8th year gathering the best and brightest speakers in the data center industry to present best practices and featured corporate case studies, including eBay, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Cox... - January 10, 2017 - topseos.com
Audubon International Certified Golf Course Leaders Sweep Top Awards for GCSAA Environmental Leaders in Golf
All individual award winners of this year’s GCSAA Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards are superintendents at courses certified by Audubon International. 22 of 28 ELGA Chapter & Merit award winners also at Audubon International Certified Cooperative Sanctuary Golf Courses. - January 08, 2017 - Audubon International
Water Expert Issues Notice Over Concerns of Arsenic in Kentucky Water Supply
Chris Myers, an authority on drinking water testing and founder of Environmental Laboratories Inc. (ELI) issued a notice of his concerns about Arsenic contamination in drinking water supplies. He has a specific concern regarding the potential contamination of area water supplies, from the Arsenic... - January 05, 2017 - Safe Home EnviroLabs
Greenstone Joins Forces with Aglytix
Relationship seeks to bring new, advanced offerings to customers. - January 04, 2017 - Greenstone - a Cultura Company
Rentokil Aims to Break the Mosquito Life Cycle Through Collective Efforts to Save Lives
Acting as Aedes Fighters, dedicated volunteers from Rentokil Initial Malaysia have worked together on a mission to eradicate mosquito breeding grounds, reducing the mosquito population, and to create healthier and safer environments for our communities. This nationwide initiative is part of the... - January 04, 2017 - Rentokil Initial
Fertilizer for Less Fights to Eliminate Erosion
Fertilizer for Less is a factory authorized dealer of AGGRAND natural and organic fertilizers. They are officially launching their product line in 2017 with one goal: To reverse the growing epidemic of topsoil loss. Blake Akers, founder of Fertilizer for Less says, “The number one export out... - January 03, 2017 - Fertilizer for Less
North Florida Land Trust Has Received a Gift of Land Along the Guana River
The land conservation organization has received 7.72 acres in St. Johns County. - December 29, 2016 - North Florida Land Trust
New Report Highlights Threats to Human Rights and Nature’s Rights in the San Francisco Bay Area and Worldwide
In December 2016, Earth Law Center (ELC) released its second annual report detailing co-violations of human rights and nature’s rights around the globe (available at: http://bit.ly/ELCCoVi). As put forth by the report, humans and nature possess fundamental and inalienable rights. Rights... - December 29, 2016 - Earth Law Center
BIASC Responds to the Final Environmental Impact Report on California WaterFix
Responses from organizations, including BIASC, representing thousands of business and labor groups water agencies, family farmers, environmentalists, and others came today after the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the Governor’s California WaterFix which was sent out by the Department of Water Resources (DWR). - December 24, 2016 - BIA of Southern California
North Florida Land Trust Executive Director Appointed to the Environmental Regulation Commission
Governor Rick Scott has appointed Jim McCarthy to serve on the seven-member board. - December 23, 2016 - North Florida Land Trust
Chemours to Deploy ENFOS Environmental Liability Management Platform
Chemours will deploy ENFOS software solutions to support the management of their remediation program. - December 15, 2016 - ENFOS, Inc.
Oldfield Community Earns Award from Audubon International Sustainable Communities Program
Oldfield is the first private community in South Carolina to earn the Audubon Green Community Award from Audubon International, a non-profit environmental organization, as recognition of significant environmental achievements and completion of the first stage en route to becoming a Certified Audubon International Sustainable Community. - December 08, 2016 - Audubon International
North Florida Land Trust Acquires Another Piece of Property on Big Talbot Island
Charitable land donation received from Charles Chupp. - December 08, 2016 - North Florida Land Trust
North Florida Land Trust Has Purchased the First Piece of Property Targeted in Their Preservation Portfolio
More than 200 acres acquired in St. Johns County. - December 08, 2016 - North Florida Land Trust
Moonworks Expands Solar Offering with SunTegra® Shingles and Tiles
SunTegra (formerly known as Integrated Solar Technology or IST), a leading provider of integrated solar roof systems, is pleased to announce a partnership with Moonworks, a Rhode Island-based construction company that specializes in gutter helmet, roofing, windows and solar. Through this... - December 06, 2016 - SunTegra
Canless Air System to Continue Manufacturing in the USA, Credits Trump While Announcing Decision
Canless Air System joins growing list of US based companies who are no longer looking to move manufacturing outside of the country. - December 06, 2016 - Canless Air System
Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Provides Support to Electra Meccanica to Advance SOLO Electric Vehicle
Maya Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd. (hereinafter MAYA) and Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corporation jointly announced today that the two companies have agreed to collaborate to help Electra Meccanica enhance the development and accelerate the time-to-market for its new SOLO electric vehicle. - December 06, 2016 - Maya HTT
Joseph Nawa of New Day Underwriting Managers Addresses Environmental Risk Profile Trends & Practices at IRMI Construction Risk Conference
Joseph Nawa, a senior consultant at New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, a leading construction-related professional liability and environmental resource firm for retail insurance agents and brokers, recently discussed the risks associated with everyday liability exposures at the 36th Annual IRMI... - December 05, 2016 - R-T Specialty, LLC's Environmental & Construction Professional Practice
Source Molecular Presents at 2016 AWRA Conference
Source Molecular Corporation was one of the presenters at the 2016 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Annual Conference held at the Florida Hotel & Conference Center in Orlando, Florida, from November 13 to 17, 2016. The AWRA Conference attracted more than 500 people and had a... - December 03, 2016 - Source Molecular Corporation
Richland Rum’s 2016 Vintage Single Estate "Georgia Agricole" Has Arrived
Virgin Rum crafted from First Pressing of 2016 Harvest reveals fresh, floral and grassy notes over an earthy and dry base. - December 02, 2016 - Richland Rum