Showing results for: environmental regulation Articles
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Living in a glass house
This article lays out the reasons to harness the new openness of corporate transparency to build trust and foster valuable external input and feedback. In his column in The New Yorker, financial writer James Surowiecki deflated the myth of corporate intelligence '…that stealing trade secrets and monitoring your competitors' every move automatically gives you an edge,' when he pointed out, 'that ...
By AHC Group
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OGI Cameras for Environmental Regulation Enforcement - Case Study
In Israel, the Haifa regulatory officials needed to know whether the local gas stations’ vapor recovery units were performing correctly. If so, they would be recovering much of the vapor that would otherwise be exhausted while refueling. If not, petrol stations faced losses from both lost product, and regulatory fines for pollution. After two weeks of using the EyeCGas, our investment was ...
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Econometric modelling, estimation and policy analysis of oil spill processes
This paper explores approaches to model specification suitable for empirical investigation of a stochastic oil spill model. We focus on the effects of economic incentive measures on the frequency of oil spills, spill size, and volume of oil spilled. We look into the relationships between parameters that describe the spill generation process and the enforcement effort, using data for the Black and ...
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Green new product development and supplier involvement: strategic partnership for green innovation
Integrating environmental concerns into New Product Development (NPD) have become a strategic issue for corporate competitiveness. Despite increasing attention of green products in supply chain management, there is a gap between emerging green NPD and existing mainstream NPD literature. In attempting to bridge this gap, this study presents a case where the Korean Electronics and its key suppliers ...
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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Greenhouse Gas emissions. Evidence from Italy using National Accounts Matrix including Environmental Accounts and provincial panel data
This article provides a new empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in Italy. Two panel datasets ? sector disaggregated National Accounts Matrix including Environmental Accounts emissions (1990?2001) and geographically disaggregated emissions at provincial level (1990?2000) ? are analysed. We find mixed evidence supporting the EKC ...
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Porous pavement application overview - Case Study
The permeable Geoweb® Solution As communities grow and experience increases in surface runoff from newly constructed buildings and hard parking surfaces, the capacity of existing stormwater runoff systems are often pushed beyond their limits. This problem has led to environmental regulations that require the use of stormwater retention and porous pavement systems. The Geoweb® system ...
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A mathematical programming model for achieving total emission control in the petroleum refining industry
This paper addresses the planning and optimisation of a petroleum refinery with consideration to multiple pollutants and greenhouse gases reduction alternatives. The study provides a tool that can be utilised for optimum pollution and greenhouse gases control strategy to achieve a given reduction level. The proposed method is based on a mathematical programming model whose performance is ...
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Emission constrained economic dispatch with valvepoint effect using Maclaurin seriesbased Lagrangian method
This paper presents Lagrangianbased technique to solve economic emission load dispatch (EELD) of valvepoint loaded generating units considering emission constraint. The EELD problem has gained recent attention due to the deregulation of power industry and environmental regulations. In this paper, two conflicting functions (fuel cost and emission) are considered and formulated as a single ...
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Industrial ecology as 'best available technique': a case study of the Italian Industrial District of Murano
This paper describes an attempt to revitalise a declining urban industrial area in the Venetian Lagoon in accordance with environmental regulations. Among the revitalisation initiatives, the environmental ones were defined through the discussion and signing of a voluntary agreement by all stakeholders. This agreement contained new and more stringent limits than those set out by environmental ...
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Determinants of wastewater treatment expenditure of Austrian communities
Wastewater treatment services are bound to rather strict environmental regulations. However, as the broad range of wastewater expenditure of communities shows, there is room for discretionary policies of communities. The current paper explores wastewater treatment expenditure of Austrian communities by employing a cross-section econometric model. To a significant extent, demographic, geographic ...
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Covering Your Tail Gas
The discovery of new shale formations throughout the world and the development of new drilling technologies have increased natural gas production and prompted government agencies to instigate tighter air pollution control regulations on processing operations. Unfortunately, meeting environmental regulations is not a profit-generating endeavor. Simply put, the time and money spent on protecting ...
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Seawater desalination — a green technology?
The need for resource-saving, low-impact “green” desalination technologies is evident as the use of desalination accelerates in many parts of the world. The concept of “best available techniques” (BAT) aims at the identification of state of the art technologies, processes, or methods of operation which indicate the practical suitability for preventing or reducing pollution of the atmosphere, ...
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The Eco‐Environmental Solution for Expedient Construction of Helicopter Landing Pads - Case Study
Environmental and Other Challenges As oil exploration efforts expand around the world, balancing the need to access land while adhering to environmental regulations and maintaining a minimal footprint can be a challenge. Access and transportation of materials into oil, gas, and mineral exploration sites create logistical challenges that significantly impact overall project costs. This is ...
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International Wire Group, Inc., Camden, NY - Case Study
International Wire is the largest non-vertically integrated copper and copper-alloy wire products manufacturer in the United States! They are committed to operating in an environmentally responsible manner, to reduce the effects of climate change, specific to greenhouse gas emissions, and conserving natural resources while operating in compliance with local, state, and federal environmental ...
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Recycling of Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) sludge in iron and steel works
The recycling and utilisation of iron-bearing by-products such as dust, scale and sludge has been tried and is being practised in many iron and steel-making industries due to its associated benefits. However, the high moisture content of the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) sludge (35?40%) is a major obstacle in its recycling. The management of this waste has become an important issue due to ...
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Carbon market and global climate governance: limitations and challenges
Climate change has been a challenge to international diplomacy and to global climate governance (GCG) involving governments, companies and civil society. This paper discusses the limitations and challenges of the global carbon market as a mechanism of GCG and its role in the post–Kyoto period. This study is part of an interdisciplinary and multi–institutional research about GCG and carbon market ...
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Economic growth and the environment in China: an empirical analysis of productivity
China is an economic powerhouse with annual economic growth averaging close to 9% over the last 25 years. However, as a result of this extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of its environmental problems are clearly evident. Consequently, a number of environmental problems, including growing energy consumption, heavy reliance on coal and increasing air pollution are ...
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Smart shipping, the future of the maritime branch?
Ships that don’t need a captain and are able to sail by a computer system? A few years ago it sounded unreliable, but not anymore. The development of self-driving cars and drones made this topic interesting for the maritime branch and not without a reason. Read this blog to find out more about the benefits and how the seals of Lagersmit contribute. Smart shipping can be divided in ...
By Lagersmit
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Standardisation of environmental reporting
Environmental reporting is used by many organisations as an opportunity to improve communication with their stakeholders concerning environmental impacts and sustainability. Although several regulations and proposals for environmental reporting already exist, a standard is still lacking. The paper presents a comprehensive concept for the standardisation of environmental reporting. After an ...
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Waste Wood Case History
The Customer The Company is a leader in the development and implementation of state of the art timber gasification. The Process The Company uses a gasification process that breaks down different types of waste wood such as wood chips, pallets, sawdust and other non-virgin wood and converts it into a clean producer gas. The producer gas fuels the turbine engines that produce electricity for the ...
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