Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | September 28th, 2017: Landscape architects and clean tech? Sounds like the old nature-versus-society conundrum, doesn’t it? Well, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) says that homeowners can implement cutting-edge methods so that Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 28th, 2017: The Switzerland-based engineering giant ABB will be working with Northvolt on that company’s project to build what will reportedly be “Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery production plant.” That battery factory will Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 27, 2017: A study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project this month finds that 103 cities around the world have a serious risk of flooding. Most of the problem can be traced Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Yoko Kubota in Beijing & Trefor Moss | September 28, 2017: Auto makers will have to start manufacturing electric vehicles by 2019, after deadline was pushed back by one year. China will force auto Read more…
Water World | GPE – September 29, 2018: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in partnership with the Water Research Foundation, today released a new report entitled Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management. The report is an accumulation Read more…
Water World | By: Matt Manges | GPE – September 28, 2017: Founded as a sugar plantation in the early 20th century and incorporated in 1959, the City of Sugar Land is the economic center of Fort Bend County in Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | September 28, 2017: Toxic emissions from common pipe repair are a health risk, researchers say. Just before lunch on September 21, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded to a report of three Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | GPE – September 28, 2017: Flight crew training adapts to 21st century needs. The way flight crew trainees learn is changing as cockpit automation, the pilot’s role and the learning process itself Read more…
Le Temps | By: Julie Zaugg | GPE – September 28, 2017: The port city is one of the most threatened by global warming. But it has adopted a series of innovative measures to protect itself from floods and rising Read more…
Renewable Energy World | GPE – September 28, 2017: A new survey conducted by public advocacy organization Climate Council found that about 75 percent of respondents in Australia expect that household battery storage will be “the new normal” within the Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Lucas Zanoni | September 27, 2017: Brazil’s Central Bank issued a rule on compliance policies for financial institutions and credit unions. Resolution Nº 4,595 of August 28, 2017 requires these institutions to adopt compliance programs. Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Simon Taylor & Yousr Khalil | September 27, 2017: In December 2016, France enacted an anti-corruption law known as Sapin II. The law was named after Michel Sapin, the then Minister of Finance, who said Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Helen Mountford | GPE – September 28, 2017: Wrenching stories of loss and hardship after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma made vivid and upsetting viewing in recent days. The death tolls from the two hurricanes are Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Rachael Petersen and Lilian Pintea | September 26, 2017: Obed Kareebi, a ranger with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, marches through the dense forests of Kibale National Park in Uganda, an area with one of the Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Charles Iceland | GPE – September 28, 2017: How Should the Global Community Respond? Water stress and drought are as old as civilization, and while human beings have devised many ways to guard against these Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: William Wilkes | GPE – September 25, 2017: Smaller German companies that help power the country’s export-driven economy are vulnerable, prompting the government to extend support. Originally published September 23, 2017: A wave of Read more…
Xinhua | Editor ZD | September 23, 2017: China’s Belt and Road Initiative can contribute to realizing the dream of the Asian Century through enhancing regional economic integration, Nepali experts said here on Saturday. Speaking at a seminar entitled “Belt Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chester Dawson | GPE – September 24, 2017: As cars go increasingly digital—and connected—cybersecurity experts worry that they also are becoming a lot more vulnerable. Originally published September 17, 2017: Hackers may have a Read more…
Chatham House | By: Emily Taylor | GPE – September 23, 2017: Our online intelligence services need freedom from the state. Originally published September 18, 2017: Until 1994, GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, didn’t officially exist. Now, it has Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alexander Osipovich, Dave Michaels And Kate Fazzini | September 22, 2017: Some market participants say Consolidated Audit Trail would contain sensitive information that could prove lucrative to hackers. The breach of the Securities and Read more…
Office Of The Privacy Commissioner Of Canada | September 21, 2017: Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien’s Annual Report outlines actions and recommendations for overhauling privacy protections to address consent challenges posed by the digital age. Canadians fear they are losing control Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Samuel Rubenfeld | September 21, 2017: Settlement brings an end to an ‘unfortunate chapter’ in the company’s history, CEO says. Swedish telecoms firm Telia agreed to pay nearly $1 billion to U.S. and Dutch Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | September 21, 2017: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday hackers broke into its electronic document storage system last year. The hackers may have traded on information they found, the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Kate King and Valerie Bauerlein | September 20, 2017: Harvey and Irma caused untreated sewage to be released into streets, rivers and homes of affected towns and counties. In the days after Hurricane Irma Read more…
The Financial Times | September 21, 2017: France, UK and Italy demand action to block terror content online. The UK, France and Italy have promised to hold technology companies to account if they fail to block online terrorist or extremist Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dave Michaels | September 20, 2017: The top U.S. markets regulator disclosed Wednesday that hackers penetrated its electronic system for storing public-company filings last year and may have traded on the information. The Securities Read more…
Reuters | By: Joseph Menn | September 21, 2017: An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust Read more…
Reuters | By: Eric Auchard | September 20, 2017: Hackers likely linked to Iran’s government are behind attacks on Saudi and other Western aerospace and petrochemical firms, signaling a rise in Iranian cyber-spying prowess, U.S. security firm FireEye Inc. said Read more…
FinCEN | By: Steve Hudak | September 20, 2017: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued an advisory to alert financial institutions of widespread public corruption in Venezuela and the methods Venezuelan senior political figures and their associates may Read more…
Lexology | By: Patterson Belknap| September 18, 2017: Today, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he has directed the Department of Financial Services (DFS) to issue a new regulation requiring “credit reporting agencies to register with” the DFS, Read more…
Global Custodian | By: Tony Freeman | GPE – September 20, 2017: The implementation of MiFID II in January 2018 is being predicted by many market participants as a Big Bang moment for Europe’s financial markets. This is because the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 19th, 2017: There has been more than $2 billion spent on fire suppression efforts so far this budget year in the US (the budget year runs from October 1 through September 30), Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Bringenberg | September 18, 2017: The next stratum of electricity and grid development over the coming two decades appears more and more clear. Major utilities methodically move through the regulatory and practical deployment of Read more…
The Financial Times | September 19, 2017: Google and other tech groups came under cross-party pressure from lawmakers on Tuesday as an effort to combat sex trafficking turned into a test of Washington’s new wariness of the power of big Read more…
RT Documentary | GPE – September 19, 2017: Technology and innovation hub, Shenzhen is known as China’s “silicon valley” and “the city of the future”. Once a fishing village, in just 50 years it grew into a megacity packed with Read more…
China Global Television Network (CGTN) | By: Wang Xueying | GPE – September 19, 2017: Desertification is threatening the environment and regional economies. In north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an experiment is being carried out in the Kubuqi desert Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 19, 2017: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Dan Frosch and Laura Kusisto | September 17, 2017: As floodwaters finally retreat, officials must contend with tens of thousands unable to return to their homes. The Government’s Growing Flood Problem: Lillian Godfrey Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Shayndi Raice | September 18, 2017: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with 10 square miles under water, executed a 25-year master plan in five years. This once-bustling city was facing all the challenges of former manufacturing Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Rob Taylor | September 17, 2017: Both sides in Australia’s referendum on same-sex marriage wonder if millennials, more accustomed to texting and social media, actually know how to send a letter. Australia—The future of Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Russolillo | September 18, 2017: BIS report weighs up risks and rewards from virtual currencies’ surging popularity. Central banks should consider introducing their own cryptocurrencies to counter the risks from the explosive growth Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: The Editorial Board | September 17, 2017: An appellate panel rewrites Supreme Court precedent to give free rein to prosecutors. Prosecutors and regulators like to define insider trading broadly—they claim to know it when Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | September 18, 2017: The crisis has sent shock waves through the industry, spooked consumers and sparked investigations. On March 8, researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. reported an online security flaw that Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | September 18, 2017: Emirates president Tim Clark believes the Hyperloop, a vacuum-tube mass-transportation concept, could be used for aviation applications such as baggage transit. “This technology is in its infancy, but it’s Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 18, 2017: Chinese authorities are moving toward a broad clampdown on bitcoin trading, testing the resilience of the virtual currency as well as the idea its decentralized nature protects it Read more…
Reuters | September 17, 2017: Beijing will suspend construction of major public projects in the city this winter in an effort to improve the capital’s notorious air quality, official media said on Sunday, citing the municipal commission of housing and Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming Read more…
Clean Technica | Lenz Blog | By: Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz | September 17th, 2017: Today I learned that the German Ruhr region needs to find a budget of around 220 million Euro a year to deal with the environmental consequences Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 17th, 2017: Trees provide beauty when they bloom and shade when it’s hot. They are a symbol of the environment, hence the term “tree huggers” to describe eco-activists. They Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Michael Barnard | September 17th, 2017: Electric cars and other vehicles continue to gain momentum, just as autonomous features are becoming mainstream. But while potential job losses due to autonomy are a strong focus, the multitude Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Brian Blackstone September 17, 2017: Global central bank consortium says there may be up to $14 trillion in “missing” foreign exchange-related debt, with uncertain effects on financial stability. Nonfinancial companies and other institutions outside Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Laura Kusisto and Arian Campo-Flores | September 16, 2017: Florida owners benefit from homes built to more-stringent codes: ‘Tree branches bounced off of our roof. But the house is fine.’ When Hurricane Wilma pummeled Read more…
The Hill | By: Sylvan Lane | September 16, 2017: The House Financial Services Committee is considering a bill that would ban any foreign bank that does business with North Korea from the United States financial system. The potential move Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 16th, 2017: Orange isn’t just the new black. It’s also the new green. Twenty years ago, an orange juice producer dumped thousands of tons of orange peels and pulp Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: William Steel | September 13, 2017: With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding Read more…
The Chicago Tribune | By: Barry Hatton | September 11, 2017: Portugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it holds barely Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | September 13, 2017: With a population expected to reach 5 million by 2050, state officials are looking at siphoning water from a river that feeds Great Salt Lake, but critics worry Read more…
The RSA Conference | By: Tony Kontzer | GPE – September 14, 2017: It’s hard to stonewall hackers who are threatening to share sensitive data they’ve stolen about customers and employees on the dark web if they don’t receive a Read more…
The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | September 12. 2017: Thames Water must break up congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies to prevent raw sewage flooding streets. A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Fahira Brodlija | GPE – September 13, 2017: The U.S. legal system doesn’t provide for an FCPA compliance defense, which would relieve a company of liability for FCPA violations if it can prove that it Read more…
Hydroworld.com | By: Elizabeth Ingram | GPE – September 12, 2017: “Community hydro” is a phrase we’ve been seeing fairly regularly recently, and it generally refers to a hydroelectric project where development was driven by a community, for the benefit Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | GPE – September 12, 2017: As homeowners and businesses continue to install energy generating equipment like batteries and solar PV behind their meters, forward-looking utilities such as San Diego Gas and Electric Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Rachel Witkowski and Leslie Scism | GPE – September 12, 2017: A federally underwritten program, already roughly $25 billion in debt from earlier storms, faces huge new claims as Hurricane Harvey poses new hazards Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | GPE – September 12, 2017: For most, the payoff is not here yet, according to a new NREL study. But it’s coming as PV deployment increases. With so few utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects actually Read more…
Reuters | GPE – September 12, 2017: China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with projected total investment of 667.4 billion yuan ($100 billion), the environment ministry said on Thursday. The projects were devised Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Trefor Moss | GPE – September 12, 2017: Orders for helicopters and planes are up as the Chinese government reforms flight restrictions. Originally published August 25, 2017: Above Shanghai’s skyline, things are eerily quiet: Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | GPE – September 12, 2017: The United States Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has updated its analysis of electricity generation technology costs, and it’s good news again for wind and solar, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 11th, 2017: The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, a state owned corporation that is roughly equivalent to NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and SpaceX all rolled into one, says it is making Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 10th, 2017: The scale of the world’s current micro plastics pollution problem can’t be overstated. Plastics, and more importantly their nearly invisible half-broken-down remnants, are now everywhere. They’re in the food you Read more…
The Financial Times | September 10, 2017: An army of Chinese entrepreneurs faces the future with a sense of adventure. China’s army of entrepreneurs is facing the future with an unrivalled sense of adventure and curiosity. The millions of internet-connected Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 10, 2017: Authorities to ban commercial trading of all virtual currencies. Chinese authorities plan to shut down domestic bitcoin exchanges, delivering a final blow to a once-thriving industry of commercial Read more…
Reuters | By: Laila Kearney | September 08, 2017: Texas communities flooded by Hurricane Harvey could see their property tax revenues sink, a financial blow that would leave many cities and counties struggling for years. Property taxes are the top Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christina Rexrode | September 08, 2017: The credit-reporting company has come under attack for its handling of data-breach that exposed information of 143 million consumers. Consumers, financial firms and regulators attempted to assess the Read more…
Reuters | By: Dustin Volz, David Shepardson | September 08, 2017: Equifax Inc (EFX.N) faced a storm of criticism on Friday over a hack that may have compromised personal data for some 143 million Americans, with consumers clamoring for answers Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Aaron Narva | September 08, 2017: The growing complexity of third-party relationships, and the immediate regulatory and reputational risks of those third parties has procurement teams, compliance officers and legal departments working to figure out Read more…
CRS Insight | Policy And Considerations For Congress | Various Authors | September 6, 2017: An issue for Congress is how federal floodplain policy shapes implementation of federal projects and programs. Federal floodplain policy has particular relevance for federal disaster Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Linda Luther | September 06, 2017: Every year, communities in the United States are affected by disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, wildfires, and winter storms. After a disaster, when a region turns Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – September 08, 2017: As rates rise, water authorities question longstanding affordability measurement. Originally published August 24, 2017: Earlier this year, Manny Teodoro, a Texas A&M University associate professor, sat in Read more…
U.S. GAO | Anti-Money Laundering | GPE – September 08, 2017: GAO-17-684: Published: Aug 22, 2017. Publicly Released: Sep 7, 2017. Transnational drug traffickers try to launder their money to make illicit proceeds appear legitimate. To help fight this, U.S. Read more…
The New York Times | By: Tiffany Hsu | September 07, 2017: Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies, said on Thursday that a data breach left Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and other sensitive information Read more…
Avionics | By: Woodrow Bellamy III | GPE – September 07, 2017: Research, operation and future considerations for augmented reality technologies have been expanding throughout the global aviation industry over the past decade, though published exploration of A/R can be Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: John Croft | GPE – September 07, 2017: In a Thales advanced technology laboratory in France, engineers are testing a next-generation air traffic controller workstation that will let controllers know if their visual Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – September 07, 2017: Originally published July 14, 2016: Earlier this year, in an announcement that has become more routine around the world, Suy Sem, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, Read more…
Science Daily | Source – Wildlife Conservation Society | GPE – September 07, 2017: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | GPE – September 07, 2017: China has pledged to cut average concentrations of airborne particles known as PM2.5 by more than 15 percent year-on-year in the winter months in 28 northern cities to meet Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | GPE – September 07, 2017: The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network added Honolulu to a reporting program for real estate deals involving cash transactions. Originally published August 23, 2017: FinCEN Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 07, 2017: A major project to restore land in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region to boost millions of people’s ability to grow food won gold on Tuesday in a U.N.-backed award for the Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | GPE – September 07, 2017: The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control put more entities and individuals from China, Russia, Singapore and Namibia on the North Korea sanctions list. Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Frances McLeod | GPE – September 07, 2017: Companies are increasingly frustrated by privacy protection laws that vary from country to country. But the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes law Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nathaniel Popper | GPE – September 07, 2017: In a growing number of online attacks, hackers have been calling up Verizon, T-Mobile U.S., Sprint and AT&T and asking them to transfer control of a Read more…
The White House | GPE – September 07, 2017: ESTABLISHING DISCIPLINE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. Originally published August 15, 2017: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Jeremy Deaton | GPE – September 07, 2017: If the United States wants to kick its coal habit, it will need to install a lot more solar power. That raises an important question: Where should all Read more…
Le Monde / Africa | Interview By: Ghalia Kadiri | GPE – September 07, 2017: For Mohamed Amine El Hajhouj, director of the Zenata Development Corporation, the project developed near Casablanca could be exported to other countries. Originally published August Read more…
European Court Of Human Rights | September 2017: This Factsheet does not bind the Court and is not exhaustive. Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence) of the European Convention on Human Rights provides Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Natasha Ferrari | GPE – September 07, 2017: The World Conference on Ecological Restoration takes place in Iguazu Falls, Brazil. In anticipation of the conference, we spoke with experts on restoration taking place right nearby Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Lawrence Cappello | September 04, 2017: A Washington, D.C., judge strikes the balance in an investigation of riots on Inauguration Day. News broke last month that the Justice Department had demanded DreamHost, a Read more…
European Court Of Human Rights | September 2017: This factsheet does not bind the Court and is not exhaustive. Personal Data Protection: “The mere storing of data relating to the private life of an individual amounts to an interference within Read more…
The Hill | By: Michael DeLaGarza | GPE – September 05, 2017: In January, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced: “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | GPE – September 05, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Geoffrey Styles | GPE – September 05, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a Read more…