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• DETROIT, April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- C & C Heating & Air Conditioning , a leading Detroit-area heating and cooling company with more than seven decades of experience, says homeowners can celebrate Earth Day on April 22 by doing their part to conserve water and energy with a few simple tips.
• Hottle said switching to energy- and water-saving devices and making some small adjustments around the home can dramatically reduce consumption.
• "Your local utility company can also perform an energy audit on your home to help you identify other ways to conserve energy and water.
• We can celebrate Earth Day by all doing our part to live sustainable lives."

• Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so it’s quite possible.
• That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent decades, especially big-box chains like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Home Depot that sell goods both in stores and online.
• While mail-order commerce is convenient, these centers also have harmful impacts, including traffic congestion and air and water pollution.

Indirect pollution sources

• The company played a prominent role in the 1970s as Congress expanded federal power to regulate air pollution nationwide under the Clean Air Act of 1970.
• To meet those standards, in the mid-1970s lawmakers and regulators considered adopting transportation controls that could address indirect pollution sources – entities that did not generate air pollution themselves but attracted large numbers of sources, such as cars and trucks, that did.
• One of its executives, George Hite, was a leading spokesperson against regulating indirect pollution sources.
• Hite asserted that because shopping centers were one-stop destinations for consumers, they actually reduced air pollution from consumers’ trips.

Big-box boom

• These companies relied on a new type of warehouse: the distribution center, which used computer technology to make supply chains more efficient.
• Compared with earlier warehouses, distribution centers were larger and focused on efficient movement of goods rather than storage.
• In the 1990s, communities across the country began organizing to slow the expansion of big-box stores.
• State and local officials refused to reconsider the deal they had reached with Target, which included grants and other tax subsidies.

Probing retail’s environmental costs

• Target and other retailers are meeting new opposition, including pushback from environmental justice groups, which argue that these companies’ operations increase traffic and degrade air quality.
• In Southern California, the powerful South Coast Air Quality Management District, which regulates regional air quality, has taken this step with Rule 2305.
• This regulation is the first in the U.S. to address emissions generated by trucks traveling to and from large warehouse facilities.
• Point targets are based on each facility’s size, number of truck trips and other factors.

Shopping carts vs. smokestacks

• For example, Target touts investments to make its facilities more energy efficient and place solar panels on its stores and distribution centers.
• Including emissions generated when suppliers shipped these goods to Target’s distribution network more than doubled this figure.
• In my view, the retail sector’s impacts on air, water, waste generation and Earth’s climate call for national-level responses.
• Big-box stores may not look like smoke-belching factories, but their companies’ operations affect the environment in ways that have become too big to ignore.

Johnathan Williams does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Missouri school districts are saving thousands of dollars annually with propane school buses, an environmentally responsible transportation solution.
• Two years after adopting propane school buses, Liberty Public Schools cites the reliability, environmental responsibility and cost savings as reasons it continues to add new propane buses to its fleet.
• Neosho School District , which has operated propane school buses for 10 years, appreciates that the ultra-clean fuel helps reduce maintenance costs.
• There are more than 22,000 propane school buses across the nation, including over 300 in Missouri.

• Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ATMU) (“Atmus”), a global leader in filtration and media solutions, has announced the expansion of its distribution capabilities with the inauguration of the Atmus Southern Distribution Center (SDC) in Hutchins, Texas, U.S.
  SDC had a soft launch in late 2023 and is now fully operational, signifying a critical milestone as Atmus transforms its supply chain to better serve its customers.
• Situated just outside of Dallas, the SDC covers 94,000 square feet that is solely dedicated to distributing Fleetguard products, a brand of Atmus.
• Opening the SDC allows us to better serve our customers when and where they need us,” said Paul Massey, Vice President of Supply Chain at Atmus.
• Atmus Filtration Technologies has 11 distribution centers strategically located around the world, including more than 1.6 million square feet across six continents.