Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) | By: Katherine Chrisman & Mark Porter | November 28, 2017: Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leader in wind and solar capacity. Traditionally, China’s electricity structure has been closed off to most forms of corporate renewable procurement. But as a growing number Read more…
ABC News | By: John Flesher | November 28, 2017: Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday. Inadequately treated sewage, industrial chemicals and farm runoff Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrew Mambondiyani | November 27, 2017: Henry Fusirayi Nzarayebani, an elder in Zimunya, a village in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly toward plants growing at the edge of a narrow dirt foot path. He plucks a few leaves from a shrub nearly hidden amid a thicket of invasive Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Gwen Manseau and Jialin (Jackie) Zeng | November 29, 2017: Having recently toughened up its anti-bribery laws, China is now aiming to expand its oversight of corruption in the public sector, possibly leading to increased enforcement efforts against both domestic and foreign companies. In the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris, & Octavia Payne | November 27, 2017: New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | November 27, 2017: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct proper background checks on 8,600 new employees. FINRA – Wall Street’s independent regulator – said the due diligence failures started in 2009 Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | November 25, 2017: Bloomberg recently reported that Volkswagen has outlined its electric vehicle investments in China with an announcement of investment of $12 billion over the next 7 years with its Chinese joint venture partner JAC (Anhui Jianghuai Automobile). JAC, a relatively unknown Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Smiti | November 24, 2017: China has launched a major reform in its power sector which will enable renewable energy generators not linked to the main power grid to sell electricity easily. The National Energy Administration (NEA) recently announced that small and medium-sized renewable energy generators Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | November 24, 2017: Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Ari Natter | November 22, 2017: Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change. The White House budget office is seeking $12 Read more…
Science Daily | Source: University Of Warwick | November 23, 2017: The smallest microplastics in our oceans — which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful — could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick. New research, led Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | November 23, 2017: Sandbranch is a small, poor, largely African American community just outside Dallas but its residents have to rely on charitable donations of bottled water. It’s a sweltering Saturday in October and Pastor Eugene Keahey is becoming agitated. His flock live Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Tatyana Shumsky | November 22, 2017: Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say. P.F. Chang’s finance chief said he switched the company to Adaptive Insights from Excel because it fosters collaboration and cuts down on administrative tasks. The process can Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | November 21, 2017: You may have read recently about China’s “sponge cities.” They’re an approach to what we commonly call green infrastructure—an attempt to reduce flooding and infiltrate stormwater runoff in some of the areas most affected by rapid urbanization. China has spent Read more…
ABC News | By: The Associated Press | November 21, 2017: Officials in Portugal say they may begin rationing the public water supply at night-time in response to the country’s worst drought on record. Authorities say 94 percent of the Portuguese mainland is enduring what they classify as an “extreme” Read more…
Regenesis Remediation Solutions | GPE – November 22, 2017: This video presents a case study of a site contaminated with PFAS, where PlumeStop® Liquid Activated Carbon™ from REGENESIS was injected in-situ, achieving excellent distribution through the subsurface to remove contaminants. Originally published October 02, 2017: Recently, PFAS contamination in groundwater Read more…
Legal & Compliance | By: Laura Anthony, Esq. | November 21, 2017: On September 20, 2017, SEC Chair Jay Clayton issued a statement on cybersecurity that included the astonishing revelation that the SEC Edgar system had been hacked in 2016. Since the original statement, the SEC has confirmed that personal Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – November 22, 2017: PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States. Originally published April 18, 2017: The early 1990s were the start of a sizzling decade for ChemFab, a producer of specialized Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Scott Patterson | November 20, 2017: Swiss commodity giant says weaknesses found in subsidiary’s financial reporting. The move comes amid an investigation by Canada’s Ontario Securities Commission, or OSC, the country’s biggest regional securities regulator, into the governance practices of the Glencore copper subsidiary, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: David Kline | November 20, 2017: Today just 8% of U.S. businesses are startups, down from about 12.5% in 1980. The last time I visited China, I had tea with Deng Xiaoping. It was 1978, and the Chinese leader outlined for me a plan Read more…
The Guardian | By: Peter Walker | November 20, 2017: The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird Read more…
The Financial Times | November 19, 2017: The world’s biggest companies will spend tens of millions of dollars to meet new EU data protection laws by next May’s deadline, according to a survey that shows the costs of meeting some of the world’s toughest privacy rules. Members of the Fortune Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | GPE – November 20, 2017: Corporate boards should think about cybersecurity risk as banks think about bank robbery: a relatively common risk that must be managed. “Just like bank robbery, you can’t say get rid of (cyber risk) and make it Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Samuel Rubenfeld | November 15, 2017: Anti-money laundering enforcement of broker-dealers by the Securities and Exchange Commission has been on the rise over the past year or so, but the $3.5 million penalty of a Wells Fargo unit stands out because it concerns a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Norton | November 15, 2017: The growing sophistication of fast-moving cyberattacks is forcing companies to employ similar technologies to defend themselves. Artificial intelligence, growing more potent and easier to use, threatens to compound the already considerable challenges companies face as they deal with Read more…
MetricStream | Various Authors | GPE – November 15, 2017: Requirements for Data Processors, Data Controllers, and Data Protection Officers. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is poised to do for data protection and security what the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) did for corporate governance in the early 2000s – Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017: The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Tom Fairless | November 14, 2017: ECB chief Mario Draghi says critics of monetary stimulus had faced too little scrutiny. The heads of four of the world’s most important central banks defended their sweeping crisis-fighting measures in a rare joint appearance, and discussed how Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jaideep Bansal | GPE – November 14, 2017: I was recently reading an article on the Grid of the Future where prosumers are both the producers and consumers of the power. It talks about how people will be able to use decentralized microgrids and not Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | November 13, 2017: The Microgrid 2017 conference, which ran from November 6-8 in Boston, kicked off with a list of events that point to a desperate need for microgrids, and I bet you’ve heard of them: February: 300,000 in Pennsylvania March: 800,000 Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Robert Clark | November 13, 2017: Companies minimize the risk of corruption by adequately vetting their prospective representatives ~ typically by reviewing information about the financial interests and relevant connections of the intermediaries’ owners and key personnel, and screening those individuals for reputational and criminal-history Read more…
The New York Times | By: Scott Shane, Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sangernov | November 12, 2017: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide. Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | GPE – November 13, 2017: China on Friday launched its first survey of endangered finless porpoises in five years, to monitor their living conditions in moves to better rehabilitate their habitat in the Yangtze River. Originally published November 09, 2017: Two scientific survey ships left Read more…
Science Daily | By: Eric Sorensen – Washington State University | GPE – November 13, 2017: Researchers say landslides on logged forests will be more widespread as the Northwest climate changes. In a study modelled on clear-cut lands on the Olympic Peninsula, they anticipate the climate of 2045 and conclude Read more…
ABC | By: Will Weissert | GPE – November 13, 2017: Texas is lobbying the federal government for $61 billion for infrastructure improvements after Hurricane Harvey’s destruction, arguing that the staggering amount is necessary to “future proof” before the next great storm. Whether Congress will oblige is anyone’s guess. Originally Read more…
The Guardian | By: Michael Slezak | GPE – November 13, 2017: At COP 23 talks in Bonn, Fiji has called on developed nations to help the world’s most vulnerable build resilience to climate change. To prepare for the rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels in the coming Read more…
Clean Technica | By:Joshua S Hill | November 09, 2017: Making a global transition to a 100% renewable electricity grid has long been a dream of many, but new research published this week by the Lappeenranta University of Technology has proven it is no longer just a dream but a Read more…
Clean Technica |By: Steve Hanley | GPE – November 12, 2017: Flat Holm island is an uninhabited rocky outcropping in the Bristol Channel that separates England from Wales. It is much admired for its rugged beauty and abundant avian population but like many islands in the world, a diesel generator Read more…
Waterworld | By: Adrian Irimia & Georg Stockinger | GPE – November 12, 2017: Following the success of a constructed wetland in Oman, treating more than 95,000 m3/day of produced water, petrochemical company Shell has reviewed the process to be used on other sites around the world. In this article Read more…
WaterWorld | By Tom Freyberg | GPE – November 12, 2017: German engineering company Bauer Nimr will expand the world’s largest constructed wetland as part of a contract with oil and gas company Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). Originally completed in 2011, the project was expanded in 2014 to 115,000 m3/day Read more…
Defense One | By: Patrick Tucker | GPE – November 12, 2017: A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe from eavesdropping. Here’s why that matters: The feat, if verified, marks a Read more…
ICIJ | By: Will Fitzgibbon | GPE – November 12, 2017: A village hoped for a better life. Burkina Faso expected more tax revenue. Residents and officials said Glencore gave them neither. Key findings: Burkina Faso’s tax office fined a Glencore subsidiary after allegations the company abused loopholes to avoid Read more…
Avionics | By: Calvin Biesecker | GPE – November 12, 2017: A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Wednesday at the 2017 CyberSat Summit Read more…
Satellite Today | By: Jeffery Hill | GPE – November 12, 2017: Recent trends in malicious cybersecurity activity show that hackers are becoming much more adept at breaching networks using acquired “legitimate” credentials (such as outdated test login accounts to Virtual Private Networks, VPNs) and “blending in” with normal network Read more…
Lazard | November 2017: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) analysis addresses the following topics: Comparative “levelized cost of energy” analysis for various technologies on a $/MWh basis, including sensitivities, as relevant,for U.S. federal tax subsidies, fuel costs, geography and cost of capital, among other factors. Comparison of the implied Read more…
International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists | By: Ryan Chittum | November 07, 2017: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Canada Revenue Agency would investigate Canadians names in the Paradise Papers. as he fended off questions about his relationship with his close ally and Liberal Party fundraiser Stephen Bronfman. The Read more…
International Consortium Of Investigative Journalists | By: Spencer Woodman | November 07, 2017: Records reveal huge overseas hoards tied to hedge fund tycoon and Democratic donor James Simons and other ultra-wealthy individuals. In December 2010, an attorney associated with James H. Simons, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Renaissance Read more…
Nextgov | By: Alexis Madrigal | November 06, 2017: It happened again. After a horrifying mass shooting, searching for the shooter’s name on Google surfaced an editor of the conspiracy site InfoWars, Julian Assange claiming the shooter had converted to Islam, and a “news” Twitter feed that’s tweeted a few Read more…
UK Government | GPE – November 07, 2017: From today (30 June 2016) companies will have to declare who owns or controls them to Companies House. Originally published June 30, 2016: The People with Significant Control (PSC) register includes information about the individuals who own or control companies including their Read more…
Clean Technica | By Steve Hanley | November 06, 2017: Caroline Power is an underwater photographer who has lived on the island of Roatan in Honduras for the past 11 years. She says the amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean near her home has increased dramatically in the Read more…
Perth Now | By: John Flint | November 06, 2017: Perth’s drinking water catchment has been polluted by waste stockpiles — right under the nose of the State’s environmental watchdog, which was “closely monitoring” activities at the Oakford site, 36km south of the city. In a highly embarrassing development for Read more…
The Guardian | By: Patrick Barkham | GPE – November 06, 2017: Average of 358 items per square kilometre found in 2016, of which more than three-quarters were plastic. Originally published November 03, 2017: There has been a dramatic rise in the amount of litter found on the seabed around Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | November 06, 2017: The SEC has a new chief to enforce the FCPA. His name is Charles Cain. And what’s important to him is leveling the playing field. In an SEC statement Thursday announcing his promotion, Cain himself said: “I look Read more…
Defense One | By: Laura Bliss | November 05, 2017: After the truck attack in Manhattan, there’s no excuse for a limited imagination when it comes to safer streets. How do you stop a terrorist, a crazy person, or just a rage-filled asshole in a commercial vehicle from ramming into Read more…
Reuters | By: Reuters Staff | November 6, 2017: China will exempt banks’ interest income from loans to small firms and rural households from value added tax, authorities said on Monday, in the latest step to address a long-standing issue of lack of financing to small firms. The policy will Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan |November 04, 2017: China should do more to improve water conservancy and water resource saving, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday in a written message to a meeting. Water conservancy infrastructure is key to supply-side structural reform in agriculture and the good of farmers, read the message. Read more…
The Hindu | By: Staff Reporter | October 31, 2017: A group of biotechnologists from Vignan University have developed a model for conversion of domestic sewage water into biogas and bio-manure. Led by scientist M.S Shivakiran, Department of Biotechnology, VU, two students Manikanta and Ravichandra, the model has employed a Read more…
MLive | By: Ron Fonger | October 30, 2017: Seventy-one water systems in Michigan now have higher lead levels than the city of Flint, results of the most recent federally-required testing shows. Water sampling in Flint from January through June showed the city’s 90th percentile for lead was at 7 Read more…
Gated Community | By: Molly Rubin | October 28, 2017: Five years ago, the coasts of New York and New Jersey were devastated by a rare late-October superstorm. On Oct. 29, 2012, a combination of record storm-wind area, a full-moon high tide, and poor infrastructure led to a devastating storm Read more…