The $1 billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program also attempts to level the playing field between Canada’s pulp and paper industry and its U.S. competitors. U.S. mills now enjoy a tax break critics say gives them an unfair advantage over their Canadian rivals.
There probably are lots of senior execs who’ve been comforted when their chief scientist has told them that since “the dose makes the poison,” they shouldn’t sweat some new study about a chemical found in small amounts in their products. This maxim is somewhat misleading; taking it at face value may be toxic to your company’s reputation.
There’s a fundamental problem facing Wal-Mart and the rest of corporate America: How does a company get bigger without increasing its environmental footprint?
Water conservation, energy efficiency, retrofits and other eco-friendly initiatives yielded Baxter International Inc. a total of $11.9 million in environmental income, savings and cost avoidance for 2008, the diversified healthcare products firm said in its latest sustainability report.
Big Blue is teaming up with San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission to monitor and reduce pollution in the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.