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The Associated Press Canada’s environment minister, Jim Prentice, blasted Quebec’s vehicle emissions rules as being “counter-productive.” Although introduced with little fanfare in late December, Quebec’s tough new light vehicle emissions regulation has become a political hot potato in Canada after the federal environment minister, Jim Prentice, denounced the rule as “counter-productive” last week in Calgary ...read more

Are the undisclosed ingredients in lipstick bad for you? Read the original article at The Daily Green

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Website: State of Green Business Forum 2010 These tools and resources from some of the world’s largest IT companies serve as a companion to the discussion at the State of Green Business Forum 2010, looking at how technology can address  the 98 percent of the world’s ...read more

Rutgers red, meet gorilla green. Actually, they’re quite the team already. Rutgers University is trying for its fourth consecutive win in the annual intercollegiate RecycleMania contest. For three years, it has claimed the competition’s Gorilla Prize for the most pounds of recyclables collected, one of eight contest categories. In 2009, Rutgers left competitors in its sustainable dust with ...read more

What’s in your body? A number of chemicals are becoming more worrisome. Even as the chemical industry and manufacturers tell us we are safe, the evidence against several widely used chemicals keeps mounting. In December, Environmental Protection Agency adminstrator Lisa P. Jackson gave chilling testimony before the Senate committee on environment and public works. She said that ...read more

Website: State of Green Business Forum 2010 How are companies considering carbon now that the Copenhagen summit is behind us? Did the event herald a new era of corporate carbon accounting, or will it be business as usual? These tools, distributed to attendees at the State of Green Business Forum 2010, offer insight into how companies ...read more

OLYMPIA, WA — Washington State’s Department of Ecology launched at the end of January its pilot project to begin requiring manufacturers to disclose toxic ingredients in toys and other children’s products. The project launched with the publication of 66 chemicals that will fall under the scope ...read more

NEW YORK, NY — Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S. KKR introduced its Green Portfolio Program to four new companies in a ...read more

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America — to much of the world that word means the future. We get drunk on the future easily. In the 50’s we were besotted by nuclear power. That was supposed to be the future. Nuclear power would do every little thing. The advertisements said that in the nuclear future we would only have to ...read more