The company is investing $15 million long-term to continue reducing its environmental footprint, officials said. #NewsismyBusiness
Marine biologist Richard Murphy, an Ambassador of the Environment who has worked closely with Jacques Cousteau and his son Jean-Michel Cousteau since 1968, was on hand for the event. #NewsismyBusiness
The creation of this task force builds upon the Justice Department’s environmental justice strategy and brings together federal law enforcement agencies in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. #NewsismyBusiness
Funds from EPA’s new Climate Pollution Reduction grant program were made possible by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. #NewsismyBusiness
The bank granted the special Environmental Conservation award at Grupo Guayacán recent EnterPRize competition.
The bank offered a talk about savings and credit and distributed $20 certificates to open an UNO bank account.
FirstBank is sustaining its support of the Martín Peña Recicla organization through a donation from its Community Reinvestment Department, which will allow it to make improvements to its headquarters so they can be used as an educational center for the G-8 communities. In addition, through the financial institution’s “Dona tu Celu initiative” — which promotes […]
PRMA will also be discussing the newest improvements on sustainable ways to carry an industry.
Walmart, Amigo, Colgate-Palmolive, cbc Pepsi Cola PR and PepsiCo are joining forces for the effort.
By Víctor Rodríguez Velázquez | Center for Investigative Journalism Far from slowing the pace of construction on Puerto Rico’s coasts to address climate change, as experts have requested, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi’s administration hit the accelerator to approve construction permits along the coasts. During his first year in office, and well into the pandemic, approval of […]
Floods in Germany, wildfires in California, historic droughts in the western United States and Brazil, sargassum tides on the shores of Caribbean beaches, extreme heat in eastern Canada and Great Britain. These are just some of the effects that human life has on the planet. It is estimated that by the year 2100 heat waves […]
When we thought of a pandemic, we never imagined that we would have to experience one in our lifetime. Nor a category 4 hurricane, much less an earthquake. It was an unthinkable scenario for many. In the last 45 months — or three and a half years — Puerto Ricans have lived through all three. […]
The coronavirus pandemic, the January 2020 earthquakes and Hurricane María in 2017 have shown us the urgent need for resilient infrastructure in Puerto Rico. Using the United Natons’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (SDG) as a framework and the most recent American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “Puerto Rico Infrastructure Report Card,” Puerto Rico is […]
Puerto Rico’s largest air carrier, JetBlue, announced it will offset carbon dioxide emissions from jet fuel for all domestic JetBlue flights beginning in July 2020, as it makes steps toward reducing its contribution to global warming. As part of the airline’s plan to prepare for a changing climate, the commitments underscore JetBlue’s long-term strategy to […]
Toyota Foundation announced that seven nonprofits in Puerto Rico dedicated to education, research and natural resource conservation will split $101,958 to move their initiatives forward. During a recent ceremony, Saskia Gómez, public relations executive for Toyota de Puerto Rico, which sponsors the foundation, said through education, voluntarism or innovation, the Environmental Donations program annually identifies […]
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