Xinhua | Editor: Yamei | December 31, 2017: Lurong Dregar, 19, had been suffering from severe headaches and seizures for years. The mystery illness even left the young Tibetan woman blind in her left eye. It was not until earlier Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | December 30, 2017: We write a lot about electric vehicles here on CleanTechnica, because we’re a tech site. But some of the best ways to cut emissions involve no tech at all. One Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 27, 2017: The shale gas fracking revolution that began in the United States a decade ago has been one of the worst disasters for the environment since our Canadian friends figured out Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Ira Iosebashvili | GPE – December 28, 2017: Corporations could repatriate as much as $400 billion in earnings and cash from abroad. Originally published on december 25, 2017: A provision of the tax overhaul Read more…
Gallup News | By: Zac Auter | December 27, 2017: Throughout 2017, Gallup investigated the current state of higher education in the U.S. We listened to the perspectives of critical audiences ranging from chief business and academic officers at colleges Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chris Gordon | GPE – December 28, 2017: A senior White House official said Sunday that the Trump administration’s push for an infrastructure rebuilding plan will begin in earnest early next month, and that Read more…
Xinhua | By: Qu Junya | December 26, 2017: The year 2017 has seen the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road reach more peoples and more lands. The year may mark a milestone in Read more…
FinCEN | GPE – December 23, 2017: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is announcing a further extension of time for certain Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) filings in light of the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) Read more…
Shell Foundation & Grantham Institute | By: Various Authors | GPE – December 23, 2017: Executive Summary: Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the deployment of solar home systems, and rural utilities coupled with electrical Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 22, 2017: The DOJ’s FCPA Pilot Program — giving companies declinations or reduced penalties if they self disclose, cooperate, and disgorge profits — has now been enshrined in the U.S. Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | December 21, 2017: Researchers plotted temperature rises against the number of asylum applications and are predicting that as the southern hemisphere heats up the number of people migrating to the EU each year Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By Brett Walton | GPE – December 22, 2017: A new era of severe environmental and economic disruption around the world upends freshwater supplies. Originally published December 20, 2017: Two months ago, as winter in the Read more…
Offices Of The United States Attorneys | GPE – December 22, 2017: This chapter contains the Department’s policy regarding investigations and prosecutions of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The FCPA prohibits both United States and foreign corporations Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | GPE – December 22, 2017: There is an ongoing struggle going on between solar developers and farmers. Land that is best for solar installations are often well suited to growing crops or raising Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Ben DiPietro | GPE – December 20, 2017: The cost of compliance for organizations rose 43% between 2011 and 2017, while the cost for not being in compliance rose 45% in that time, according Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Helen Ding, Sofia Faruqi, Caroline Gagné & Andrés Anchondo Ortega | December 19, 2017: Trees are obviously good for the planet. What’s not so clear to most people — governments, NGOs, investors, the public — Read more…
Water & Wastewater International | By: Vijay Sundaram, Lucinda Jooste, Melanie Holmer & Allegra da Silva | GPE – December 20, 2017: Ozone-biologically activated carbon has been in use at drinking water treatment plants for years. However, the benefits of Read more…
Gallup | By: Jim Harter | December 20, 2017: According to our recent State of the Global Workplace report, 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. The economic consequences of this global “norm” are approximately $7 Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Robin King | GPE – December 20, 2017: There has perhaps been more attention paid to affordable housing this year than any in recent memory, but it took a tragedy to make it so. The Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | GPE – December 20, 2017: Don Jaycox, DLA Piper’s chief information officer for the Americas, sat down with Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Fazzini to explain how the firm responded to the attack, which also Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | GPE – December 20, 2017: Many U.S. companies may think they don’t have to worry about them. But, as Justin Antonipillai and Ajay Arora explain, they do. ‘There are thousands of companies that have no Read more…
FinCEN | GPE – December 20, 2017: The US Department Of The Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have produced a form to facilitate conforming with the compliance requirements relating to Beneficial Owners. This is an optional form provided for Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Greg Ip | December 18, 2017: GOP tax plan could lead companies to curb shifting of profits abroad—and could satisfy Trump’s protectionist instincts. Dublin has been a welcome port for U.S. companies engaging in Read more…
Reuters | By: by Joyce Lee & Heekyong Yang | December 16, 2017: South Korea’s spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($6.99 million) worth of cryptocurrencies Read more…
Reuters | By: Anjali Athavaley | December 13, 2017: AT&T Inc has started trials in Georgia state and a non-U.S. location to deliver high-speed internet over power lines, the No. 2 wireless carrier said on Wednesday, marking its latest push Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | December 12, 2017: Single use plastic bottles are strangling the earth’s ecosystems. Every plastic water or soda bottle that we buy contributes to ecological degradation in the form of micro plastic — those Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: James V. Grimaldi & Paul Overberg | December 12, 2017: A Wall Street Journal investigation uncovered thousands of fraudulent posts on agencies’ dockets, in hot-button areas such as net neutrality and payday lending. On Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Suzanne Ozment & Rafael Feltran-Barbieri | December 12, 2017: As The Guardian newspaper recently reported, chopping down trees in the Amazon rainforest decreases water supply to distant Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city. Large-scale deforestation Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 11, 2017: Artificial intelligence will always be a “work in progress” in fighting money laundering and won’t entirely replace humans and their intuition, a top UK regulator said. “Any bank Read more…
Bloomberg News | 10 December 2017: $40 billion spent so far on aqueducts to feed northern cities. Government taps technology, boosts food imports to save water Autumn rains came too late to save the stunted stalks of Shu Xinguo’s corn Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – December 12, 2017: In unfolding global energy revolution, expensive and ecologically risky dams may not be right choice to generate more electricity. The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian Read more…
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | December 09, 2017: Today we’re able to build self-driving trucks, to communicate with smart humanoids, and to play video games with virtual reality technologies. Yet there are 1.06 billion people living without access Read more…
Pacific Institute: By: Abbey Warner | GPE – December 10, 2017: “Companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water management and governance that is also in the public interest. If done responsibly, integrating private Read more…
Huffington Post | By: John J. Berger | GPE – December 10, 2017: On millions of acres of grazed American range land, if you plunge a shovel into the ground, you’re likely to find light-colored, depleted soil that’s lost much Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner & Patricia Kowsmann |December 08, 2017: New rule is latest mainstream effort to adopt record-keeping developed for virtual currencies. France said Friday that it will allow wider use of the record-keeping technology Read more…
IRIN | By: Nathaniel A. Raymond, Daniel P. Scarnecchia & Stuart R. Campo | December 08, 2017: Why it’s time for an independent investigatory body. The news that a platform used by at least 11 major operational NGOs and UN Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 07, 2017: Southern California is in flames. Wildfires are raging just north of Los Angeles, destroying whole communities just a short drive from downtown LA. Consuming everything in their path, the fires Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | December 06, 2017: The smog-prone northern Chinese province of Hebei has drawn up plans to launch a comprehensive environmental protection tax starting in the new year that will give more incentives for local polluters Read more…
Reuters | By: Frank Phiri | December 07, 2017: Many parts of Malawi remained without electricity on Thursday after water levels at the country’s two main dams sunk to critical levels and affected hydro power plants, the power utility said Read more…
Space In Images | By: Copernicus Sentinel-2 Mission | December 08, 2017: Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 5 December 2017, this image shows flames and smoke from the fierce blazes devastating northwest Los Angeles in Southern California. While Read more…
Defense One | By: Caroline Houck | December 06, 2017: “On a scale of 1 to 10,” the threat of a cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure is “a 7 or an 8,” the Department of Homeland Security warned lawmakers Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | December 07, 2017: The European Union Tuesday named 17 countries and territories to its first-ever blacklist of tax havens. Forty-seven other countries were grey-listed but have committed to meeting EU standards. Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 06, 2017: For the past 40 years, the electricity sector of the US economy has been the biggest source of carbon emissions. But according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, that distinction now Read more…
Reuters | By: Timothy Gardner | December 05, 2017: Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Carson Vaughan | December 04, 2017: Planted after the Dust Bowl. Cut down in the climate change era. Surely the end was nigh. Up and down the Great Plains, from the Texas panhandle to the Read more…
Amirix Systems | Press Release | GPE – December 06, 2017: Amirix Systems announced on November 30, 2017 that it has been acquired by US based InnovaSea Systems. Amirix is the parent company of Bedford, Nova Scotia based Vemco and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Andrea Bertoli | December 05, 2017: So many of us suffer from nature deficit: we spend lots of time indoors, staring at screens both large and small. This is tiring to our brains and our eyeballs, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | December 04, 2017: Berlin (Germany) and China are working with nature to create sponge cities that absorb rainwater and cool the city. Even without the challenges of climate change, cities would do well Read more…
Reuters | By: Philip Wen | December 03, 2017: China’s central Shanxi province has introduced new rules curbing water use for steel, cement and aluminum production, state media reported on Sunday, in another blow to sectors reeling from government-enforced output Read more…
Defense One | By: Joseph Marks | GPE – December 04, 2017: Lines between government-backed hackers and cyber criminals are getting fuzzier, top officials told lawmakers Thursday. Originally published December o1, 2017: That’s one message the FBI wanted to send Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Michael S. Derby | December 03, 2017: As electronic-payment methods rise in popularity, central bankers ponder whether they might need to get in the game. For years central bankers have seen digital currencies as Read more…
Reuters | By: Jeremy Wagstaff, Byron Kaye | December 03, 2017: Police and security agencies have so far only taken an interest in blockchain – the distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin – for tracking criminals hiding illegal money Read more…
William D McMaster | GPE – December 02, 2017: Since the 1970’s Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…