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18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases

18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases
Eighteen states are suing the EPA in an attempt to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling ...

Toyota Second To None In Green Brands Survey

Toyota Second To None In Green Brands Survey
The top four brands seen as truly green are Toyota (9.4%) , BP (3.3%), Body Shop (3.1%), and Honda (2.7%), according ...

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles
The California Air Resources Board has voted to lower the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell ...

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series
Reece Nanfito, senior director of marketing for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council, talks to Green Fuels Forecast about E85 fueling most ...

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks
UPS has added 167 Compressed Natural Gas delivery vehicles to its fleets in Texas, Georgia and California. It ...

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters
Raley's, a supermarket chain with stores in California, has retrofitted 16 older trucks with a new exhaust filtration system resulting in ...

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines
Nissan will issue new green procurement guidelines, a set of environmental protocol to augment The Nissan-Renault Purchasing Way, in ...

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant
Earth Day must be approaching because a lot of big brands are announcing major initiatives with conservation and ...

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck
Electric vehicle maker Zap is introducing a new electric truck for fleets with a greater payload rating. Production ...

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds
Chrysler is erecting a 26-story meteorological tower at its Chelsea Proving Grounds to determine if high-level winds are suitable ...

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks
"Radical greening" is one of the top 10 strategic business risks for 2008, according to a new study (PDF) by Ernst ...

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook
Toyota has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to create a Facebook application called Tree Planter. Users ...

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks
New EPA standards and $100-a-barrel oil are creating demand for hybrid big rigs, garbage trucks and dump trucks, ...

Study Maps ‘Mindset’ Of Hybrid Car Owners

Study Maps ‘Mindset’ Of Hybrid Car Owners
Although many new-vehicle buyers may want to purchase an environmentally friendly vehicle, just 11% are “very willing” to pay more to ...

PHH GreenFleet Adds Telematics Service

PHH GreenFleet Adds Telematics Service
PHH Arval has added data from telematics to GreenFleet's PHH Onboard service to help companies cut their emissions. ...

Nissan Disses U.S. Green Building Council

Nissan Disses U.S. Green Building Council
In July, Nissan North America is moving its headquarters to a 50-acre green campus with a restored wetland. But Nissan ...

S.F. Cabbies Foot Bill For Green Taxi Ordinance

S.F. Cabbies Foot Bill For Green Taxi Ordinance
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has followed New York City's lead by initially approving an ordinance that will require taxi cab ...

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service

Virgin Launches GM Fuel Cell SUV Limo Service
Virgin Atlantic will offer passengers Chevrolet Equinox Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars as part of its upper class limo service. Initially passengers in ...

Drive-Thrus Could Face Difficult Future

Drive-Thrus Could Face Difficult Future
A number of Canadian cities are looking at banning, regulating, or studying the environmental impacts of drive-thru restaurants, EcoSpace ...

NYC ‘Black Cars’ Go Green

NYC ‘Black Cars’ Go Green
NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission will require the city's 10,000 black car fleet - the luxury cars that ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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