While the current political environment may be changing when it comes to environmental efforts (pass the plastic straw, please), a recent poll shows demand for sustainable products in the U.S. is strong—and growing. When Trellis data partner GlobeScan asked hundreds of U.S. consumers about their purchasing habits in March, nearly half of Americans (49 percent) […]
Efforts by the dairy industry to address the warming caused by methane are gaining momentum, with more companies disclosing data, releasing action plans and reporting progress in reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. Agriculture creates close to 40 percent of human-caused methane emissions and livestock is responsible for most of that. With plant-based alternatives […]
Send news about sustainability leadership roles, promotions and departures to [email protected]. HMTX Industries, a privately held maker of vinyl flooring for healthcare and residential construction, in March moved responsibilities for environmental sustainability and social impact programs, managed for the past nine years by Chief Sustainability Officer Rochelle Routman, to the sales and marketing executive it […]
GE’s Ecomagination initiative, launched May 9, 2005, certainly turned heads. Here was the world’s ninth-largest company, a 113-year-old conglomerate founded by Thomas Edison, inventor of the first commercial light bulb, putting sustainability front and center in its new corporate strategy. It seems, 20 years later, paradoxically overhyped and underappreciated. At first glance it appeared to […]
The House Ways and Means Committee released its initial proposal for a budget reconciliation bill, and it includes massive cuts to clean energy tax credits established by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The proposed cuts come on top of reductions proposed by the Energy and Commerce, Natural Resource and Transportation committees. They include: Early […]
CDP, the most widely used platform for environmental disclosures, is laying off one-fifth of its workforce as it invests in innovations that the organization said will better serve disclosing companies and users of its data. The organization did not provide specifics on which departments would be affected, beyond saying that the cuts will not be […]
More companies retired carbon credits in the five months since the U.S. presidential election than during the same period a year ago. This indicates that carbon credit buyers are continuing to work toward their long-term climate targets, executing on strategies that stretch beyond any presidential term, according to a report published today by Patch, a […]
When the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was dismantled earlier this year, there were two focal points of media coverage. First, there were the humanitarian costs. Second, the headlines analyzed geopolitical impacts for the U.S. in losing its primary tool in delivering one of three legs of national security (defense, diplomacy and development). […]
Global economies are becoming less circular despite the increased use of recycled and other non-virgin materials, according to the 2025 Circularity Gap Report. It found a worldwide rate of 6.9 percent circularity, a drop from two 7.2 percent years earlier. The Amsterdam consultancy Circular Economy and London-based Deloitte Global released the report May 13 at […]
As long-held global economic norms and reliable trade partnerships are disrupted by the Trump administration’s ad hoc tariff policies, the need for a domestic supply chain that can recycle and refurbish critical materials has become increasingly necessary for market stability. Enter Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation. These state-level laws require manufacturers to develop products that […]