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Sustainability

The massive plant will employ up to 4,000 people near Kansas City when it opens supply battery cells for the auto industry’s fast-moving shift to electric cars and trucks.

Recent research by the American Lung Association found that smoke from large fires can spread over hundreds or thousands of miles, polluting the air.

What does it take for an independent jeweler to obtain the most coveted sustainability certification around? Since January 2022, Shakti Ellenwood has been one of only four artisan jewelers in the world to hold the coveted B Corporation label, and the first goldsmith in the UK to make the grade.

The plastic problem isn’t new: With few options for recycling, these products can last forever — and exacerbate health risks for people and the planet. But Judith Enck and others are working to hold companies responsible for the environmental impact of their products.

Former Federal Reserve Governor & former Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin sees "a reimagined capitalism," she tells a green finance conference. Here's why & why it matters. ESG

The NatWest Group has added a behavioral risk team to its internal function (IA). This innovation is expanding the traditional focus on internal controls to a broader one that also covers issues like corporate culture and the outcomes produced by the company's internal processes and procedures.

The deal will see more than 1,000 VW and Audi dealerships in the U.S. sending batteries to JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials for recycling.

On Monday afternoon, firefighters announced the Washburn Fire was 25% contained.

Half of Milan’s 1.35 million residents are now within walking distance of new public space, much of it reclaimed from cars through the judicious placement of planters and the bold and expansive application of paint, an easily reversible city makeover technique known as “tactical urbanism.”

Businesses worldwide are under new scrutiny from a practice known as spatial finance, by which banks, insurers, and other financial players use GIS technology and spatial data to assess a company’s impact on the world around it.