This 4-part article provides an overview of how to calculate an organization’s carbon footprint.

The Ontario, Canada Ministry of the Environment (MOE) says it will be easier to apply for and obtain environmental approvals using its proposed risk-based approvals model. To be introduced over the next two years, the model will focus approvals resources on activities that pose the greatest risk to the environment and on businesses with poor
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United States Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) introduced a bill on March 4, 2010 that would establish a Building Star program to promote energy efficient installations in commercial, industrial, and multifamily residential buildings. The program is expected to save building owners more than $3 billion on annual energy bills while reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by 21 million metric tons each year.

The following report from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany was written by the lawyers at Norton Rose and excerpted from their insightful and oftentimes humorous blog. This session is the first opportunity for the Parties to formally revisit the Copenhagen negotiations of December 2009 in detail.

On April 22, 2010, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a memorandum outlining administrative enhancements to its penalty policies. The administrative enhancements, which will become effective over the next several months, will likely increase the number of violations cited by OSHA and the dollar amount of the penalties.