Sentences with phrase «environmental audit companies»

Superfund's broad environmental liability has led to a growing and lucrative practice for environmental audit companies.

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Through a program called the Green Choice Alliance, environmental groups publish lists of companies in violation of environmental regulations and offer to conduct a third - party audit if a company chooses to clean up its act.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

We expect companies to discuss their key environmental impacts, be taking measures to reduce them, and to present independently audited environmental performance data.

Jutta Kill from the organisation FERN, who is today giving evidence to the UK parliament Environmental Audit Committee said that Government proposals to regulate offset companies misleadingly give the impression that there are bad offsets and good offsets.

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

Meanwhile an internal audit by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) concluded it had violated its own environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies.

Remember how an internal audit of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation showed that it violated its own procedures in lending to palm oil companies — the social and environmental impacts of

In State College, Pennsylvania, I had the opportunity to tour the 2,400 square feet Matson & Associates Eco-Building, home to three ecopreneurial enterprises: Matson & Associates, an environmental assessment services company, often engaged to provide «expert witness» testimonials on some of the most timely waste processes issues; Envinity, a green building and home energy audit consultancy; and Matson Biofuels, a company developing a more ecological and non-toxic approach to making biodiesel called Green Biodiesel.

The company performs environmental audits on homes, which tests for energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and other factors.