New York’s Upper West Side composes of hundreds of housing cooperative (co-op) apartment buildings using No. 6 oil as their primary heating fuel. The use of No. 6 oil in less than 1% of the building stock citywide provided ...

In the current absence of the federal government’s strong leadership to address climate change in the United States, mandatory regional tradable permit programs for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions are being ...

Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) are one tool that corporations around the world have been using to work toward sustainability. Agencies in the federal government are also using EMSs to reduce their ecologic ...

Forestry carbon offset projects are potentially viable solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, these projects have been heavily critiqued for perceived failures in creating real, additional, measurable, ...

The evolution of ocean governance began in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of resource-specific acts aimed at protecting certain species or environments. In the midst of this legislative activity, policy-makers ...

The current period of increasing regulation and change in the United States cigarette industry offers new opportunities for those organizations to further develop their environmental sustainability programs. New FDA ...

The Department of Defense is one of the largest Federal landholders in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with over 420,000 acres spread among 68 installations. Navy Installations located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed face ...

Wetlands provide a variety of ecological, economic, and social values and are deteriorating rapidly because of anthropogenic impacts. Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) made compensatory mitigation and “no net loss” ...

Public education and outreach are important components of most non-profit and government programs. This research project was motivated by a requirement of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting ...

This study was conducted in order to inform the sustainability planning process at Duke University and similar institutions of higher education. Through interviews of Duke University Campus Sustainability Committee members ...