Sustainable Manufacturing News
PepsiCo, Inc., a leader in the food and beverage industry, is committed to making energy management a successful and integral part of its corporate sustainability efforts.
Plant-wide assessments (PWA) investigate overall energy use in industrial facilities and identify energy- and cost-saving opportunities for best practices in energy management for industry, including the adoption of new, energy-efficient technologies and process and equipment improvements. The U.S. Department of Energy cost-shares such assessments, usually through an annual competitive process.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the first group of manufacturing sites that have met the Energy Star Challenge for Industry and reduced their energy intensity by 10 percent within 5 years or less. The U.S. manufacturing industry is responsible for nearly 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and spends almost $100 billion annually on energy.
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The priorities for accelerating change in the hospital sector as identified by the Hospital Energy Alliance (HEA) Steering Committee are:
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Recognizing its leadership in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has honored NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management, the energy program's highest honor. It is the fifth time the Hospital has been honored by the EPA — the most of any hospital in the country.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing the first three frozen fried potato processing plants to earn the Energy Star for superior energy performance.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy today jointly announced changes to the Energy Star product certification
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Heinz publishes goal to reduce GHG emissions by 20% by 2015 by focusing on eight key areas:
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To effectively monitor our key environmental performance indicators, we established a baseline year of 2007 with a target year of 2016 in each of our priority focus areas.
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Merck & Co., Inc. announced that it has received a 2010 ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its continued efforts to protect the environment through energy efficiency.
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The U.S. steel industry has reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by 31% since 1990. Since 2002, energy intensity is down 15%. Because of the close relationship between energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, the industry’s aggregate CO2 emissions per ton of steel shipped were reduced by a comparable amount during the same period.
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