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Environmental certification is a form of environmental regulation and development where a company can voluntarily choose to comply with predefined processes or objectives set forth by the certification service. [1] Most certification services have a logo (commonly known as an ecolabel) which can be applied to products certified under their ...
Sunset legislation passed by the Texas Legislature in 2001 changed the agency's name to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and continued the agency until 2013. During the special session of the 81st Legislature (2009), legislation was adopted amending the 2013 date to 2011, [ 4 ] when the agency was continued for an additional 12 ...
LEED certification can be attained through "compliance with all environmental laws and regulations, occupancy scenarios, building permanence and pre-rating completion, site boundaries and area-to-site ratios, and obligatory five-year sharing of whole building energy and water use data from the start of occupancy (for new construction) or date ...
B Lab certification is a third-party standard requiring companies to meet social sustainability and environmental performance standards, meet accountability standards, and be transparent to the public according to the score they receive on the assessment. B Lab certification applies to the whole company across all product lines and issue areas.
The Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) was established in 1995 by Juan Parras and Ana Parras under its original name, Unidos Contra Environmental Racism. The organization was born out of a commitment to environmental justice, focusing on addressing environmental hazards that disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Around 65.6% of Fortune 500 companies (and 81% of Fortune 100 companies) include disability inclusion in their impact reporting, according to a new report from Disability:IN, an organization ...
Since its founding in 1989, Green Seal has developed environmental standards for hundreds of categories of products and services. [1] Green Seal published a series of buying guides for purchasers in the 1990s (the Choose Green Reports) and at that time began providing technical assistance to Federal, State, and local governments and other institutions' environmental purchasing, operations, and ...
Companies may produce EPDs in order to understand the environmental impact of their products or services, differentiate their products on the market and demonstrate a commitment to limiting environmental impacts. [6] EPDs are a transparency tool and do not certify whether a product can be considered environmentally friendly or not.