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New York’s Department of Financial Services is pushing insurance companies to account for climate change risk in their business strategies, a potential step toward more widespread U.S. regulation of climate financial risks. Read More

Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter Charles Orgbon Mon, 09/21/2020 – 00:45 Long before corporations acknowledged Black Lives Matter, they championed the plights of specific endangered species. Corporate conservation campaigns used phrases such as “Save the [insert your favorite animal],” which have been catchy, effective and oddly similar to the language we’re now […]

Coca-Cola has made progress on sustainability — and there’s still more to do The year 2020 has been a reckoning of sorts for many people and companies across the globe. For Coca-Cola, the last five months have made the company realize how critical it is to move more quickly and accelerate change. “The circular economy […]

House Democrats unveiled a massive 894-page clean energy research, deployment and workforce training bill this morning, with plans for a floor vote next week. Read More

New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall (D) is questioning the legality of EPA’s decision to reorganize its chemical office without consulting lawmakers. Read More

Several companies and the nation’s top lobbying force for wind are banding together to form a new clean energy group. Read More

The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills Jim Giles Fri, 09/04/2020 – 00:15 How about this for a series of maddening statistics? Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon […]

The Trump administration has moved closer to approving one of the last major renewable energy projects that it has prioritized completing by year’s end. Read More