Greenlist(tm) Bulletin 05/27/2005
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Titles here, abstracts below them:
- Incorporating Green Purchasing into the Frame of ISO 14000. July 2005
- Assessing Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides
by Biomonitoring in Epidemiologic
Studies of Birth Outcomes. April 2005
- A More Efficient Way to Make Single-Walled
Nanotubes. January 2005
- Electrolux Reduces Phosphorus 86 Percent. March 2005
- GAO Criticizes Administration's Progress on Climate
Change Assessment. May 2005
- Lubricant Considerations in Wet Steel Wiredrawing. May 2005
- Phthalate Test Results Petitioned. May 2005
- Solar Power is Back with Plastics' Help: But Did It
Ever Leave? April 2005
- Accountants Issue Guidance on Environmental Management Accounting. February 2005
1. TITLE Incorporating Green Purchasing into the Frame of
ISO 14000
AUTHOR Chen, Chung-Chiang
SOURCE Journal of Cleaner Production, v.13 n.9, July
2005, pp.927-933
ABSTRACT More and more firms have begun to voluntarily
adopt ISO 14000 as a tool for
continuous improvements to meet the goals of sustainability. At the same time, these
firms have also encouraged their suppliers to apply for the certification of
ISO 14001 and to regulate the certification as a minimum requirement in
selecting suppliers. By contrast, green purchasing is increasingly being
used as an effective tool to mitigate the environmental impacts of consumption
and to promote the development of clean production technology.
2. TITLE Assessing Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides
by Biomonitoring in
Epidemiologic
Studies of Birth Outcomes
AUTHOR Needham, Larry L.
SOURCE Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2005,
vol. 113, no. 4, pp. 494-498
ABSTRACT For epidemiologic studies that evaluate the
relation between potential exposures to
environmental chemicals and adverse outcomes, accurate assessments of
exposures and health outcomes are needed. Three prospective cohort studies
recently evaluated the relation between exposure, as assessed by biomonitoring,
of pregnant women to organophosphorus pesticides and several birth outcomes.
Here these three studies are compared in terms of the exposure scenarios and
exposure assessments. The primary focus is on the exposure assessments, all
of which employ biomonitoring but use different approaches, which may
contribute to the different findings. These approaches and how they may contribute to
different relations between exposure and birth outcomes are examined.
3. TITLE
AUTHOR Sissell, Kara
SOURCE Chemical Week, v.167 n.16, May 11, 2005, p.48
ABSTRACT The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection says it will seek reimbursement from Honeywell, PPG, and Occidental for the cleanup of 106 northern New Jersey sites contaminated with hexavalent chromium. DEP's estimated total cost of the cleanup is $18 million. The companies' predecessors used the chromium to clean machine parts. The companies say they have agreed to clean up some of the sites, but that they are not convinced they are responsible for the other remaining properties.
4. TITLE A More Efficient Way to Make Single-Walled
Nanotubes
SOURCE Chemical Engineering, v. 112 n. 1, January 2005,
p.17
ABSTRACT Up to now, most carbon nanotubes have been
produced by chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) onto a
substrate with nano-sized catalyst particles in a
high-vacuum chamber. However, that method requires additional purification steps
that lead to production costs of up to $500/gm. Researchers in Japan have
developed a more efficient CVD process to synthesize single-walled
carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with 99.98 percent purity. As a result, additional
purification steps are avoided, which is expected to lower production costs.
5. TITLE Electrolux Reduces Phosphorus 86 Percent
SOURCE MnTAP Extra: Wastewater, March 2005
ABSTRACT Electrolux Home Products in St. Cloud, Minnesota
manufactures freezers. To
assist the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) with reducing phosphorus
discharges to the
6. TITLE GAO Criticizes Administration's Progress on Climate
Change Assessment
SOURCE Chemical Week, v167 n15, May 4, 2005, p32
ABSTRACT A Government Accountability Office (GAO; Washington) report says that the Bush administration has not complied with a law requiring the government to produce regular summaries of federal climate change research that analyzes trends in global warming and any associated scientific uncertainties. The 1990 Global Change Research Act requires the White House to produce the summary every four years, but the administration missed the November 2004 deadline, GAO says. The government also lacks a well-developed plan for making the required assessments, it says.
7. TITLE Lubricant Considerations in Wet Steel Wiredrawing
SOURCE Wire Journal, v.38 n.5, May 2005, pp50-54
ABSTRACT Wet lubricants can require more maintenance than
dry soaps, but wiredrawers who
choose the appropriate lubricant, either water- or oil-based, will find operational
advantages to this approach.
8. TITLE Phthalate Test Results Petitioned
AUTHOR Kirschner, Mark
SOURCE Chemical Market Reporter, v267 n17, April 25 - May
1, 2005, p16
ABSTRACT A coalition of environmental groups has
petitioned the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to obtain the results of an unpublished study assessing the safety of
phthalates in dozens of cosmetic products. The groups say preliminary
information shows that two-thirds of health and beauty products analyzed by the
FDA late last year contained phthalates. Two of the chemicals, DEHP
(di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate) and DBP (dibutylphthalate), have been banned from cosmetics
sold in the European Union but are not restricted in the
9. TITLE Solar Power is Back with Plastics' Help: But Did It
Ever Leave?
SOURCE Modern Plastics Worldwide, v82 n4, April 2005,
pp30-34
ABSTRACT Solar power as a primary means of providing
energy for homes has had its ups and downs
since the 1980s, when government incentives for installing solar made it
popular among home-owners looking to reduce electric bills. However,
silicon-based solar cells were expensive to manufacture and were inefficient, and
installation was difficult. New photovoltaics use tiny solar cells embedded in
thin sheets of plastic to create an energy-producing material that is
cheap, efficient and versatile. A major contributor to the resurgence of
solar power is Siemens Corp., which has developed technology that melds
nanoscale buckminsterfullerene molecules with conductive plastic polymers. Konarka
Technologies, a
10. TITLE Accountants Issue Guidance on Environmental
Management Accounting
SOURCE Business and the Environment, vXVI n2, February
2005, pp 1-4
ABSTRACT The International Federation of Accountants
(IFAC) has issued an exposure draft of
"International Guidelines on Environmental Management Accounting (EMA).
The guidance notes that the following factors are driving increasing
interest in EMA: increasing pressure from stakeholders interested in environmental
issues; increasing importance of environment-related costs; and increasing
recognition of problematic accounting practices.
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