7 Ways to Green Your Business
Greening your business can motivate employees, decrease overhead, and build your brand as a socially conscious company. Here are seven energy-saving tips for your business.
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How to Start an Office Recycling Program
As much as 90 percent of office waste in the average workplace can be recycled. Here's how to get started.
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10 Ways to Mark Earth Day at Your Company
Celebrate Mother Earth by launching these sustainable initiatives at your company.
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Hazardous Waste Rules Eased
The move aims at encouraging small businesses to recycle industrial by-products. Read more
Small Businesses Awarded EPA Grants
May 2, 2007 -- The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $3 million to 13 companies as part of the agency's Small Business I... Read more
Tips on Winning Federal Tech Grants
Small-business owners will be offered tips on winning government grants for technology and innovation at a conference in Texas this fall. The Natio... Read more
Business, Environmental Groups Square Off Over EPA Rule
Proposed changes to the Toxic Release Inventory requirements could streamline the reporting process for both small businesses and the EPA. Read more
EPA Relaxes Reporting Requirements
Supporters say the changes will streamline the compliance process and lower costs for small businesses. Read more
How to Dispose of Your Computer Equipment
Recycling and other forms of proper computer disposal are available in the digital age. Read more
Electricity, at What Cost?
Apparently at the cost of the environment -- and our lungs. The Bush Adminstration Read more
Save Money on Energy Costs
The deregulation of the energy industry is a hot new market for some start-ups, as Emily Barker reveals in the Read more
EPA Pushes Dozing Desktops That Use Less Juice
Semiconductor vendors are building computers that power down when idle to save electricity and meet EPA goals. Read more
A Reading List For Nervous CEOS
Guides to help companies comply with EPA regulations the Clean Water Act. Read more
Hazardous Waste Threatens CEOs
Accelerating EPA small business prosecution the expense of compliance. Read more
All the President's Men
Biotech firm fights federal bureaucracy by turning government into a partner and ally Read more
Double Billing
Your company generated hazardous wastes. You took great pains to have it disposed of properly. The waste site was badly run. Now, the government wants you to... Read more
Every Breath You Take
Information on various types of indoor air pollution that can cause both health and legal problems. Read more
Small Businesses Exempted from Emissions Law
The EPA exempts businesses with greenhouse gas emissions of less than 25,000 metric tons per year under the Clean Air Act. Read more
Down In The Dumps
Business can't afford it. Government can't enforce it. But this month a new law regulating the hazardous wastes of small companies goes into effect anyway. Read more
Where Will All That Gunk Go?
Even as the demand for waste disposal increases, disposal sites close due to public outcry and tougher standards. Read more
An Activist Approach To Dealing With Regulators
'I spent the first 10 years of my adult life as an activist United Methodist minister -- active in seeking to bring truth, righteousness, and justice to p... Read more
Clean Air Act
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Clean Water Act
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Comprehensive Environmental Response Cleanup and Liability Act (CERCLA)
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Environmental Audit
Environmental audits are reviews of a company's operations and processes to determine compliance with environmental regulations. Audits cover buildings an... Read more
Environmental Law and Business
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9 Ways to Cut Energy Costs
Energy costs have been rising in recent years and new taxes are on the horizon, so every business has a reason to become more efficient. Here's how. View slideshow
Small Businesses and the EPA Risk Management Program
On June 21, 1999, companies of all sizes that use certain listed chemicals will submit for the first time plans thatdetail how they will prevent accidenta... Read more
How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills
How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills Read more
The Inc. 100 Portfolio;
Insituform of North America Inc. (#89) knows exactly what it wants from its board of directors. The company, which repairs sewers without tearing up stre... Read more
Dress Rehearsal
An environmental consultant provides mock inspection service to companies to ensure adherence to EPA standards. Read more
Cut Your Staff
If American businesses can slim down, they're more likely to win the productivity race. Read more
New Oil-Storage Rules for Small Business
Dec. 18, 2006 -- The National Federation of Independent Business is applauding a move to ease oil-storing regulations for small bu... Read more
Secondary-Smoke Strategies
Options for dealing with environmental tobacco smoke in the workplace and ordering information for several resources. Read more
Adventures in Regulation
Company owner's experience with bureaucratic logjam between Drug Enforcement Agency and Environmental Protection Agency. Read more
Post-Katrina Recovery Must Be Carefully Planned
Chubb offers a checklist to help business owners pick up the pieces after disasters strike. Read more
Natural Pesticide
Start-up creates the world's first natural cockroach pesticide. Read more
Blue is the New Green
Forget for a moment about carbon emissions. The world is facing a more immediate crisis -- it is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread short... Read more
Innovation: Flexible Circuit Boards
Vorbeck Materials’s new graphene-based ink can be used to print circuit boards that can be twisted, creased, or peeled off like a sticker. Read more
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