Energy
The current state of the U.S. labor market is generating a significant conversation about the availability of skilled talent especially in light of the manufacturing renaissance underway. The creation and implementation of a sustainable pipeline of talent is integral to both human capital and...
In January 2010, the EPA proposed to reduce the ozone standard to somewhere between 60 and 70 ppb. The marginal cost of ozone standards rises rapidly as ozone standards become more stringent. Thus, moving from a currently implemented standard of 84 ppb to 60 ppb is likely to be even more expensive...
Every four years, the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) surveys manufacturers on their energy use. The preliminary results of the most recent survey, covering the year 2010, are in the process of being released and show that the manufacturing sector’s total energy...
The United States could, with just a little help from policymakers, experience a manufacturing renaissance in the next decade with profound effects on national living standards. That’s what a new joint study by MAPI and the Aspen Institute forecasts. On the other hand, if it’s business as usual...
Canada boasts the world’s third largest oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. This standing rests on the country’s oil sands in the Western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the large-scale exploitation of which began a decade ago. The U.S. is currently the near-exclusive non-...
On Thursday, December 27, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced she would be stepping down after the president's State of the Union address in January, saying that she "will leave the EPA confident the ship is sailing in the right direction." Ms. Jackson has served as EPA administrator for the...
Learn how some companies are currently demonstrating their commitment to energy savings by signing a voluntary pledge to reduce energy intensity by 25% over ten years.
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Through 114 Better Buildings, Better Plants Program partners are implementing cost-...
The outlook for the U.S. energy situation is much brighter than it was just four years ago and this has positive implications for the economy and for the manufacturing sector. Even though the prices of oil and petroleum products have been on a roller coaster in recent years, the United States has...
Quebec’s Plan Nord
With its Plan Nord, the Quebec government has committed to generating CAD 80 billion in investment over 25 years in the north of the province, including several billion public dollars to build core infrastructure and improve local socioeconomic conditions.[1] The area’s...
Building on Bacardi’s successful single-sustainability-metric model first presented at MAPI’s Fall 2011 Sustainability Forum, this webinar features an update on the model and how manufacturers from all industries can apply the framework to their companies.
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