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U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta Fuels Fleet with Biodiesel

U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta Fuels Fleet with Biodiesel
U.S. Foodservice-Atlanta claims it is the first major foodservice distributor in Georgia to fuel its entire delivery fleet with biodiesel. The distributor is using B5 ...

Central Hudson Pitting Hybrids vs. Biodiesel in Truck Fleet Test

Central Hudson Pitting Hybrids vs. Biodiesel in Truck Fleet Test
Central Hudson will use its eight new heavy-duty hybrid trucks as a comparison against biodiesel-powered trucks already in service. Evaluating the pros and cons ...

United Airlines Saves 1B Pounds of Fuel over Four Years

United Airlines Saves 1B Pounds of Fuel over Four Years
By using the latest flight techniques to conserve fuel, reduce noise and keep the air cleaner by reducing emissions, United Airlines has saved 1 billion ...

Green Transport Cuts Emissions, Fuel Use and Cost

Green Transport Cuts Emissions, Fuel Use and Cost
It's simple and profitable to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a new white paper from Chicago-based EA Logistics. The company's first whitepaper on ...

PHI Implements Strategies to Cut Energy Use, GHG Emissions

PHI Implements Strategies to Cut Energy Use, GHG Emissions
Pepco Holdings, Inc., (PHI) has released its latest environmental sustainability report, Powering a Sustainable Future, that outlines the environmental activities at each of its subsidiaries. PHI subsidiaries ...

Four of Five Cities Call Sustainability a ‘Top Priority’

Four of Five Cities Call Sustainability a ‘Top Priority’
Living Cities has released its Green Cities report that provides an assessment of how cities in the United States are trying to limit their carbon footprint, ...

AEP’s Green Fleet Recognized By EPA

AEP’s Green Fleet Recognized By EPA
American Electric Power, which operates 110 flex-fuel vehicles, 24 hybrid utility trucks, and more than 80 hybrid cars, including three plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, has become the first utility ...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Releases CSR Report

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Releases CSR Report
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. released “Brewing A Better World" (PDF) - its corporate social responsibility report for fiscal 2007. According to the report, the Vermont company missed its goal for ...

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories
With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

Kettle Foods LEED Gold Plant Sees 20% in Energy Savings

Kettle Foods LEED Gold Plant Sees 20% in Energy Savings
Kettle Foods opened a LEED Gold certified food manufacturing plant a year ago. Now the company is seeing green in building green. The factory has seen annual energy savings of 20 percent, ...

Con Edison Installs Green Roof

Con Edison Installs Green Roof
Con Edison is installing its first “green roof” at its Learning Center training and conference facility in Long Island City, where more than 21,000 plants will occupy over a quarter acre ...

Postal Service Wants To Green 90% Of Fleet

Postal Service Wants To Green 90% Of Fleet
The U.S. Postal Service is participating in Project Driveway to identify new technologies in hopes of replacing almost 90 percent, or 195,000 of its delivery fleet with non-petroleum fueled vehicles. ...

Tesco Powers Distribution Center On Straw

Tesco Powers Distribution Center On Straw
Tesco will meet the electricity and heating needs of its Goole Distribution Center with a straw-powered Combined Heat and Power plant, which will generate 5 megawatts of electricity, or enough to run eight Tesco stores. Construction ...

Town Says Biodiesel ‘Way Too Expensive,’ Shelves Plan For Green Fleet

Town Says Biodiesel ‘Way Too Expensive,’ Shelves Plan For Green Fleet
High costs have forced the town of Greenwich, Connecticut to abandon plans to run half of its fleet on a soy-based biodiesel fuel, Greenwich Time reports (via CT Environmental Headlines). The ...

Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids

Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids
Con Edison is increasing the use of biodiesel fuel in its truck fleet and is replacing 50 of its smaller vehicles with hybrids in 2008, the company announced. The company says using ...

Busch Cleaning Up 20 Percent Of Fleet In High Asthma Area

Busch Cleaning Up 20 Percent Of Fleet In High Asthma Area
Anheuser-Busch will install pollution reducing equipment in 15 delivery trucks that will operate out of its Bronx, N.Y. location. Busch also has committed to using biodiesel for its Bronx fleet, and converting ...

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report
As part of its Earth Day celebration, Safeway Inc., one of the largest retail users of renewable energy, unveiled its two newest solar-powered grocery stores in Northern California. Solar equipment at the stores ...

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel
Dole Fresh Vegetables Company, a division of Dole Food, announced that it has converted 95 pieces of its farm equipment in Salinas, California, and Yuma, Arizona, to B20 biodiesel. The 95 machines ...

Safeway To Run Entire Fleet On Biodiesel

Safeway To Run Entire Fleet On Biodiesel
Safeway says it will be the first major retailer to make its entire fleet of trucks operate on biodiesel fuels. The announcement will be made at its Dublin, California, store which is powered ...

Live Earth Issues Final Assessment Report

Live Earth Issues Final Assessment Report
Following a ten-week audit, Live Earth has issued a final report (PDF) on the energy reduction and waste diversion efforts surrounding its July concerts, saying it met its goal in restraining carbon emissions to ...

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