Compliance

The environmental commitments your biggest customers made publicly are now showing up in your contract renewal.

NGO environmental scorecards used to be a reputation management concern. The way they're being used now — by investors, insurers, and buyers — has changed that calculus entirely.

Sustainability teams that focus only on improving operations, without understanding how those improvements are being measured and by whom, are optimizing for a scorecard they're not actually reading.

Environmental accountability has crossed into finance and law. Boards still routing ESG through comms are exposed in ways that go well beyond reputation.

Greenhushing — deliberately downplaying environmental goals to avoid scrutiny — is growing. But regulators in the EU and UK are now targeting silence as well as overstatement.

Ventura County is testing a scalable regenerative agriculture model. Early results show farm adoption rising with coordinated funding and support.

59% of executives admit overstating sustainability efforts. The gap between public claims and verifiable data is now a live enforcement risk for C-suites.

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.

A company reporting its own emissions without third-party assurance is being compared against peers who have that assurance, and the comparison isn't favorable.

AI demand is pushing data infrastructure to its limits. Orbital data centers are emerging as a potential solution to ease capacity constraints.

Internal audit findings that contradict public environmental disclosures are showing up in enforcement records. EHS teams need to close this gap before regulators do.

Companies that made bold environmental commitments without data systems to back them up are sitting on litigation exposure they didn't price into those pledges.

Texas is suing Shein for toxic chemicals in products and data practices that may expose users to the Chinese government. Here's what companies AND consumers need to know.

EHS teams are being asked to deliver on environmental commitments made before water and land constraints became operational realities. The gap is widening fast.

The environmental constraints reshaping industrial timelines across Latin America are less visible than tariffs but just as costly to underestimate.

Before you finalize your next site decision, understand what uneven water infrastructure is actually doing to U.S. industrial expansion.

Carbon reporting is evolving into a strategic business tool. Companies now use real-time emissions data to guide decisions, cut costs, and drive progress.

The turbine market is shifting as efficiency and emissions targets tighten. Growth is being driven by policy, innovation, and rising global energy demand.

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