Save Money on Energy Costs
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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 story
Environmental Law and Business
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Recycling
Beginning in the mid-1960s and growing alongside the environmental movement, recycling became an important aspect of municipal waste management and symbol... Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Every Breath You Take
Information on various types of indoor air pollution that can cause both health and legal problems. Read story
All the President's Men
Biotech firm fights federal bureaucracy by turning government into a partner and ally Read story
A Reading List For Nervous CEOS
Guides to help companies comply with EPA regulations the Clean Water Act. Read story
Hazardous Waste Threatens CEOs
Accelerating EPA small business prosecution the expense of compliance. Read story
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 story
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 story
EPA Relaxes Reporting Requirements
Supporters say the changes will streamline the compliance process and lower costs for small businesses. Read story
Hazardous Waste Rules Eased
The move aims at encouraging small businesses to recycle industrial by-products. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Dress Rehearsal
An environmental consultant provides mock inspection service to companies to ensure adherence to EPA standards. Read story
How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills
How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills Read story
Secondary-Smoke Strategies
Options for dealing with environmental tobacco smoke in the workplace and ordering information for several resources. Read story
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 story
Boring In
Crop Genetics International has engineered a safe pesticide that multiplies in the sap of plants. Read story
Adventures in Regulation
Company owner's experience with bureaucratic logjam between Drug Enforcement Agency and Environmental Protection Agency. Read story
Natural Pesticide
Start-up creates the world's first natural cockroach pesticide. Read story
Waste Not
Ordering information for Making Less Garbage by Bette K. Fishbein and Caroline Gelb, and tips on reducing waste. Read story
Post-Katrina Recovery Must Be Carefully Planned
Chubb offers a checklist to help business owners pick up the pieces after disasters strike. Read story
Employee Compensation
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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 story
Good Chemistry
The American Chemical Society publishes an inexpensive book that helps small businesses comply with OHSA and EPA rules. Read story
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When Uncle Sam Sneezes
A business that depends on the whims of Washington better hope the government doesn't change its mind too often Read story
Behind Bars;
TAPED TO THE FRONT DOOR AT THE Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Unit in Washington is a cartoon showing a business executive speaking to five oth... Read story
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