ISO 14000 and the Environmental Sustainability

International ISO standards facilitate trade, spread knowledge, and share technological advances and good management practices.

Published under the designation of International Standards, ISO standards represent an international consensus on the state of the art in the technology or good practice concerned.

ISO has a multi-faceted approach to meeting the needs of all stakeholders from business, industry, governmental authorities and nongovernmental organizations, as well as consumers, in the field of the environment. ISO has developed:

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Ford [Nyse: F] Ensures Fuel Efficient Suv With $400 Million

Around 0 million of the fund will go to investment for manufacturing at Chicago sites while another 0 million will go to the engineering costs of the new sports utility vehicle.
The new, more fuel efficient Ford Explorer is expected to give users fuel savings of no less that 25 percent compared to that of the original model.  Features of the new Ford Explorer include Ford’s EcoBoost engine technology, unibody construction, lightweight components, and six-speed transmission.

The new line of fuel-efficient vehicle will be in produced in the last quarter of the year at the Chicago plant.

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