December, 2006
News Roundup: Owens Corning, Apple, EPA…
Greenpeace Demonstrates Outside Apple's 5th Ave. Store
More than 60 Greenpeace activists on Friday gathered around New York's Fifth Avenue Apple Store to protest the company's use of toxic chemicals in its hardware products, macnn ...
Dell Faces Recycling Criticism
Last week, Dell announced that it had met a timetable set in June to provide free recycling of any Dell-branded product for consumers worldwide as part of ...
Duke’s Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions
Taxing carbon emissions will produce immediate, economywide gains in energy efficiency and new, carbon-free energy production, Duke Energy Chairman Paul Anderson said last week at a Sierra Club workshop in San Francisco on what to ...
Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal
California's Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors has rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from a proposed coal-fired power plant in Utah after dozens of ratepayers and renewable ...
Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills
Colorado, with Democrats in control of the governor's office as well as the state Senate and House, has a good chance of signing a dozen or so renewable energy bills - three times the number introduced ...
Automakers Seek Dismissal for Global Warming Suit
Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are asking a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Oakland to dismiss a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing ...
Westinghouse Wins China Nuke Reactor Contract
PG&E to Launch Carbon Offset Program for Customers
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is launching a carbon offset program for residential and business customers. ClimateSmart, which PG&E is calling a first-of-its-kind program, is scheduled to launch in spring 2007.
PG&E customers can sign ...
GM Reports, Again, that Energy Use is Down
General Motors is once again pointing out that it has cut its energy use by 25 percent and added solar and landfill gas as energy sources at its North American facilities over the past ...
Melbourne Joins CCX
The City of Melbourne is joining the Chicago Climate Exchange. Under the program, Melbourne will make a commitment to reduce its baseline greenhouse gas emissions. Melbourne is the first city outside the U.S. to join.
Melbourne ...
BP, OCR Offer Solar Roofing Package
First Commercial Biomass Unit in U.S. in Final Stage
Siskiyou Opportunity Center in Mount Shasta, California is in the final stage of beginning to produce its own biomass electricity from wood chips, the Mount Shasta Herald reports. The biomass machine, designed and built ...
FTA Gives Consortium $9 Million for Hydrogen-Fueled Buses
Aspen Sells Tags to Offset Guests’ Travel Emissions
Aspen Skiing Company is partnering with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to sell Green-e certified SkiGreen Tags to resort guests who wish to offset their travel-related emissions to and from the resort with ...
Branson: Airlines Can Cut CO2 Emissions 25% in 2 Years
Even though high fuel prices have cost the Virgin Group and Virgin Atlantic about a billion dollars a year in increased costs because of its trains and planes, Richard Branson prays that fuel prices remain high in ...
Honeywell Energy Plan Saves School District $129,000
A five-year energy savings plan at York School Department buildings in Maine cut $128,903 in energy costs its first year, the Portsmouth Herald reports.
In 2004, the School Department, working with Honeywell, designed ...
Boeing Facility Receives ISO 14001 Certification
Boeing's airplane manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington has received ISO 14001 certification, confirming that the facility has a certified system in place to monitor, manage, and improve its environmental management system.
Boeing's Everett facility sits on more than 1,000 ...
BPA Issues Renewable Energy RFP
Bonneville Power Administration, a federal power marketing agency based in Portland, Oregon has issued an RFP for the research and development of new renewable energy technologies for the BPA and the utilities it ...
Multi-Site Manager Monitors Remote Solar Sites
Fat Spaniel Technologies has launched TriStar Multi-Site Manager, a product designed to allow operators of multiple remote solar power systems the ability to evaluate the health of all off-grid sites. Sites needing attention are ...
Dell Hits Goal of Global Free Recycling for Consumers
Dell has launched free recycling in several additional markets, meeting a timetable set in June to provide free recycling of any Dell-branded product for consumers worldwide as part of its global recycling policy. According ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
