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CDP Launches Water Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched a global water disclosure project to help businesses and institutional investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with ...
Whirlpool Cuts Water Use by Nearly 22% from 2004 to 2008
Whirlpool Corp. is on track to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 6.6 percent by 2012, according to the company's first global ...
Texas, China Wind Partners May Build U.S. Factory to Appease Critical Lawmaker
A massive West Texas wind farm that came under scrutiny for its plans to incorporate Chinese wind turbines - yet still qualify for federal ...
SEC Charges Four in ‘Green’ Investment Ponzi Scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four people in connection with an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that targeted more than 300 elderly ...
USPS Energy Use Down 9% From 2005 to 2008
In its first-ever sustainability report, the U.S. Postal Service showed a decrease in total energy use of 9 percent from 2005 to ...
Carbon Traders Adjust to New Copenhagen Expectations
With it now practically a given that Copenhagen will yield no global climate deal, carbon traders say that a final agreement in 2010 is ...
E-Waste Rising, Electronics Makers Boost Recycling
Transboundary movement of hazardous waste shows a disastrous accumulation of e-waste, roughly about 6 billion tons, according to an upcoming report from the Basel Convention, reports ...
Heinz On Track to Reduce GHG Emissions, Waste, Energy Use and Water Consumption 20% by 2015
H. J. Heinz Company has significantly reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, solid waste, energy use and water consumption over the past year, keeping the company ...
YKK Group’s Recycling Rate Hits Nearly 98%
The YKK Group, based in Japan, is targeting zero emissions at all its global production sites by recycling, according to its Social and Environmental Report ...
Transurban Reduces Energy Use by 3%
Transurban, a toll road owner-operator with assets and projects in Australia and North America, reduced its energy consumption at its head office in Melbourne by installing ...
PepsiCo to Reduce Water, Energy Use 20% by 2015
PepsiCo has saved more than 750,000 megawatt hours of energy and more than 7.5 billion liters of water as a result of gains in energy and ...
Climate Change Will Harm U.S. Economy, Economists Say
Almost all 144 top economists surveyed for a New York University School of Law report agree that climate change threatens the United States economy and that ...
Emissions Intensity Falling Globally
Emissions intensity, the amount of carbon generated from fossil fuel use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), fell globally in all but two years between ...
Carbon Trading Could Trigger a ‘Sub-prime Style’ Economic Crash
Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second 'sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world ...
Clean Tech VC Funding On Rebound, Up 50% Since 2nd Quarter
Venture capital funding for the clean tech industry, beleaguered for most of the year, finally rebounded in the third quarter, according to figures from ...
McKesson to Save $300K Via Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
McKesson Corp. continues to gain a better understanding of its emissions, energy consumption and water consumption companywide. In the firm's 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report, the ...
U.S. Export-Import Bank Adopts Carbon Policy to Support Renewable Energy
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) says it is the first Export Credit Agency (ECA) to adopt a comprehensive Carbon Policy ...
Yokohama Rubber Cuts GHG Emissions 13.4% in 2008
Yokohama Rubber Group's greenhouse gas emissions at operations in Japan were 13.4 percent lower in fiscal year (FY) 2008 than in the base year (1990), marking ...
DOE Awards $155M to Make Industrial Sector More Energy Efficient
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $155 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 41 industrial energy-efficiency ...
Xerox Cuts GHG Emissions by 20% from 2002
Xerox Corp. reports greenhouse gas emissions fell 20 percent from 2002 to 2008, and says it will deliver a 25 percent reduction in total GHG ...
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