Spokane's proposed cooling ordinance would require landlords to maintain bedrooms below 80°F by 2031, building on Washington state's new portable cooling law.
About 70% of Scope 3 carbon inventories fail at the verification stage, not because companies haven't made an effort, but because the governance architecture underneath the numbers isn't built to withstand external scrutiny.
BlackRock and others are embedding transition credibility into credit assessments. With $1T in corporate debt maturing in 2026, environmental commitments now carry financial risk.
EPA approves carbon storage permits in Kansas and Illinois, advancing CO₂ sequestration projects with long-term monitoring requirements.
Only 16% of the world's largest companies are on track for net zero by 2050. The failure isn't strategic—it's operational.
A Japanese biomaterials firm is extending plant-based inputs into consumer goods, using nail cosmetics as an early test case for broader material substitution.
Internal audit findings that contradict public environmental disclosures are showing up in enforcement records. EHS teams need to close this gap before regulators do.
Permit timelines are stretching. Usage caps are being introduced. The regions that were supposed to make the next decade of growth easier are getting more complicated.
Green hydrogen’s future depends on precision as much as scale. New monitoring tools are helping stabilize electrolyzer performance in harsh conditions.
Carbon reporting is evolving into a strategic business tool. Companies now use real-time emissions data to guide decisions, cut costs, and drive progress.
How much of your portfolio exposure sits in land and environmental risk your current compliance framework was not built to catch?
DuPont’s spinoff of Chemours shifted PFAS-related liabilities—but evolving science and stricter regulations revealed the limits of a clean break.
A Louisiana project is turning wood waste into steady electricity. By pairing biomass with carbon capture, it aims to remove more carbon than it emits.
Marine protected areas face rising pollution threats from land. Without wastewater control, ocean protection targets risk falling short.
Cross-border growth used to come with manageable environmental risk. That calculus is shifting fast — and most due diligence processes haven't caught up yet.
Disposable lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data. That raises concerns for regulators, investors, and companies relying on it.
Canada has approved a chlorine-free water treatment system. The move highlights growing pressure on utilities to cut by-products.
A new battery project in Scotland highlights the growing role of storage in balancing renewable energy supply. The Falkirk site supports UK grid stability goals.
The updated ISO 27914 now has enough detail to matter as a potential substitute for the federal reporting requirement that 45Q tax credits depend on.
The violations that produced the biggest penalties were not one-time failures. They were patterns that accumulated across years.