Enviance Blog

Dirty Work Made Clean: Tracking Emissions for Los Angeles Airports

Environmental reporting and compliance is a necessary, but daunting task. To keep up with stringent requirements for monitoring gases and chemicals, many major emitters are quickly ditching inefficient internal reporting systems and embracing dynamic cloud-based systems.

One such organization is Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). Being situated in one of the smoggiest yet heavily-regulated regions of the country, streamlining their compliance tracking and reporting was a top priority.

In our new white paper, released today, you’ll learn how LAWA was able to migrate its tracking, monitoring and reporting for air quality regulations to the Enviance System. Using Enviance, LAWA can now successfully track daily use of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) by the three airports and one facility it oversees —including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the departure point for more trips than any other airport in the world.

In the whitepaper, you’ll learn how, with the Enviance System, LAWA was able to achieve:

• Accountability by tracking user entries

• Consistency and reduction of data entry errors by using templates

• Intelligence by applying roll-up calculations

• Visibility by generating reports 

Check out the white paper to take a closer look at LAWA’s case study detailing how institutions are using the Enviance System to satisfy Air Emissions Inventory Reporting Requirements.

Enviance Recognizes Zero Emissions Day

Today is Zero Emissions Day or ZeDay — a day heralded as a “Global 24 hour Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Combustion.” The goals of the holiday are to recognize our use of carbon burning power sources, and for people to “reboot,” by shutting down everything non-essential that’s powered by carbon emitting sources for a day.

For everyday people, this can be as simple as biking to work or reading a book instead of watching TV.

For large entities, including those Enviance works with today to track, manage and report carbon emissions, this would prove to be much trickier, and practically impossible. These organizations simply have too many moving parts and essential operations for this to be a reality. However, with more entities moving toward energy efficiency measures and integrating greater amounts of renewable energy sources, we see a not so distant future where organizations can reach a net zero energy footprint.

Furthermore, at Enviance we understand that reducing your carbon footprint, whether as an individual or a Fortune 500 company, depends first and foremost on understanding and evaluating the emissions you are making. A complete view of your environmental activity is the basic foundation to reducing your carbon footprint.

For now, we think initiating activity on an individual level is a good start to reduce our impact on the planet. So, what are you doing to recognize ZeDay?

September Monthly Poll

It's time again for our monthly poll, where we ask your opinion on a wide range of pressing environmental regulation issues. Our goal is to identify what matters most to you and present your unfiltered opinions on a host of hot button topics.

For this month's poll we would like to know your option about a carbon tax, specially in California. Please take a few seconds to complete the poll below and participate!