Category: Public Utilities

January 24, 2020

Energy efficiency will be a vital tool in the Garden State’s bid to reach 100% clean energy by 2050, but that will require making significant strides from today’s reality, according to experts. “New Jersey has had one of the most-costly […]

January 23, 2020

California established its RPS program in 2002, requiring at the time that renewable resources make up 20% of electricity retail sales by 2017. However, the program’s targets have changed over the years; the state passed Senate Bill 100 in 2018, […]

January 23, 2020

Many cities and states across the U.S. that have vowed to reduce their landfill waste by 2020 are falling short on their waste reduction goals. And, according to a Bloomberg Environment report, the challenges go beyond the implementation of China’s […]

January 22, 2020

In a new five-year plan, China is taking major steps to rid the nation of single-use plastic waste. On January 19, China announced its plan to ban single-use plastics across the country. The joint proposal from China’s National Development and […]

January 22, 2020

In a January 21 public letter, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson announced a multi-decade commitment to be “a resource-positive company, aspiring to give more than it takes from the planet.” The announcement included science-based preliminary targets for the reduction of carbon […]

January 21, 2020

Penn Waste announced it has been acquired by Waste Connections, Inc. Founded in 2000, Penn Waste offers residential and commercial waste management and recycling services in south central Pennsylvania. In a January 18 blog post, Penn Waste made the following […]

January 21, 2020

Malaysia announced it has returned 150 containers of plastic waste to the countries from which they were illegally imported. On January 20, the country’s Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said she ordered 3,737 metric tons of trash to be returned […]

January 20, 2020

The energy transition will be cheaper and faster with the full support of the oil and gas sector, but national oil companies, in particular, are falling behind, the IEA warned in a report compiled with the World Economic Forum and […]

January 20, 2020

There are fears for one of America’s last two remaining concentrated solar power developers as the embattled sector attempts to pivot to a new business model abroad. SolarReserve, which developed the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in […]

January 17, 2020

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex will be the first region of investment under the Every Bottle Back initiative to increase the collection of 100 percent recyclable plastic bottles. Launched in October 2019 by the American Beverage Association (ABA), Every Bottle Back […]