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News of Chamber’s Climate Change Shift a Hoax

A press release purporting to be from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 19 said that the chamber was ...

U.S. House Drops Plans for Carbon Neutral Offices

The U.S. House of Representatives has dropped its plan to make its offices "carbon neutral" even as it considers extensive legislation on climate change, reports the ...

AIG Pulls Out Of USCAP

American International Group has left the U.S. Climate Action Partnership following queries from U.S. lawmakers about why the firm was funneling taxpayer money into USCAP - ...

U.S. Climate Action Partnership Calls For 42% Emissions Cut By 2030

The U.S. Climate Action Partnership recently unveiled A Blueprint for Legislative Action (PDF), which calls for a cap-and-trade system, a 42 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030 and 80 ...

Dow’s Liveris On High Energy Prices And USCAP

Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris discusses high energy prices and USCAP at WSJ's ECO:nomics conference.

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?

Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, sometimes marketers forget an important piece of the messaging mix: dialogue. Don't get ...

Environmental Activists Get Media To Run Bogus USCAP Story

Rising Tide North America, a loose-knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and ...

Xerox Joins USCAP

Xerox Corporation has joined the United States Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of business and environmental leaders working together to protect the climate and spur legislation and regulation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas ...

Caterpillar’s Disharoon: Market Forces Should Drive Climate Change Policies

"Regional and state by state initiatives are problematic," said John Disharoon, Director of Sustainable Development at Caterpillar, in a recent interview for Green Power Conferences. "The US needs a federal policy that works in concert with ...

ConocoPhilips Earmarks $25 Million For Water Sustainability Center

ConocoPhillips will spend $25 million over the next five to seven years on a global Water Sustainability Center that will examine ways of treating and using by-product water from oil production and refining operations, ...

Ford, Chrysler Join United States Climate Action Partnership

Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group have joined the United States Climate Action Partnership, AP reports. General Motors joined the organization in May. At the same time, Cerberus Capital Management, which is in ...

GM Joins USCAP, Climate Group On A Roll

General Motors is joining the United States Climate Action Partnership, becoming the first automaker to support the group’s call for action to address climate change. “GM is very pleased to join USCAP in proactively ...

Alcan Joins United States Climate Action Partnership

Alcan has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the coalition of companies and NGOs calling on the government to enact national legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Dick Evans, President and CEO of Alcan will ...

Dow Joins U.S. Climate Action Partnership

Dow Chemical Company has joined the United States Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of major businesses and leading climate and environmental groups that are calling on the federal government to enact legislation ...

AIG Joins USCAP, Launches Alternative Energy Risk Practice

AIG has joined the United States Climate Action Partnership. "As the first insurer to join USCAP, AIG can help shape a broad-based cap-and-trade legislative proposal, bringing to this critical endeavor a unique perspective ...

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program

ConocoPhillips is supporting a mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership - a business-environmental group. "We have joined USCAP in support of the development of a mandatory ...

Vattenfall, Alcan, Duke Energy, IETA Push for Global Emissions Trading Market

Vattenfall AB, Alcan Inc., Duke Energy Corporation and the International Emissions Trading Association are cooperating to work with other leading industries and financial institutions to accelerate carbon trading as a key ...

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