FTC proposes clampdown on green claims
The agent Trade Commission yesterday planned a writing to its Green Guides for consumer products that would allow demanding regulations on the environmental claims prefabricated by companies.
The 229-page offering (PDF) includes a panoramic difference of regulations as to what companies haw feature in marketing materials most the eco-friendly attributes of products, packaging, or services.
The newborn planned edition of the Green Guides, which has not been updated since 1998, would allow stricter rules for the ingest of certificates and seals of approval. It also includes newborn regulations on using cost same compostable, degradable, ozone-friendly, ozone-safe, non-toxic, and recyclable.
For example, if the newborn Green Guides are implemented, from today on, in visit for a creation or packaging to wrongfully be tagged “degradable,” the component ..read more
Cape Wind gets key green light on state permitting
Developers of the Cape Wind send won a jural selection that brings the disputable offshore twine farm in Colony fireman to the move of construction.
In a 4-2 selection issued on Tuesday, the realty dominant suite upheld an early judgement that Cape Wind could intend a “composite” of permits from the realty to revilement finished the topical permitting process.
An offshore twine farm in Sweden
(Credit: GE)
Placement of the turbines would be in federal waters, but a sending distinction conjunctive to the mainland on Cape Cod needs to be built. Local towns and the Cape Cod realty thinking authority denied the send a accept in 2007, locution it didn’t hit sufficiency information, according to The ..read more
Aspen, Mobile ‘Green’ Sony Ericsson Like BlackBerry
Sony Ericsson introduces the handset ‘green’ Green Heart latest in a line. Aspen named, was a surprise phone separately since attending the qwerty keyboard and BlackBerry-style appearance.
Vendor Japanese and Swedish joint venture was indeed comparatively rare product release with qwerty keypad. Some analysts called the lack of qwerty phones quite influential in the declining competitiveness in industrial Sony Ericsson mobile phone.
Aspen seemed promising performance for businesses qualified, equipped Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with support enterprise e-mail, multitasking and Wi-Fi connection. Masculine-looking phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera, a-GPS and a microSD slot up to 4GB.
As a Windows mobile phone, the Aspen comes with Microsoft Office Mobile, Outlook Mobile, and Adobe PDF Reader. ..read more