http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/24/goldman-sachs-to-pump-40bn-into-clean-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/24/goldman-sachs-to-pump-40bn-into-clean-energy/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 15:51:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=77317 Goldman Sachs Group plans to invest $40 billion over the next 10 years into renewable energy, an area where the bank expects demand to grow as the global appetite for energy increases and major manufacturing countries like China set more aggressive emissions targets, Reuters reported. But the bank’s new clean energy target would average about [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/24/goldman-sachs-to-pump-40bn-into-clean-energy/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/nations-dams-could-power-another-4-million-homes/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/nations-dams-could-power-another-4-million-homes/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:02:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74632 Existing dams across the U.S. could provide more than 12 GW of additional electric generating capacity, the equivalent of roughly 15 percent of the nation’s hydropower capacity, according to a Department of Energy analysis. Assessment of Energy Potential at Non-Powered Dams in the United States analyzed more than 54,000 sites that could be developed to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/19/nations-dams-could-power-another-4-million-homes/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-vehicle-emissions-natural-gas-tsca-petroleum-reserve/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-vehicle-emissions-natural-gas-tsca-petroleum-reserve/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:00:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74296 Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes 10 items. Canada issued greenhouse gas emissions rules that aim to make heavy trucks and buses up to 23 percent less polluting by 2018. The rules will take effect on the 2014 model year for vehicles including full-size [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/16/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-vehicle-emissions-natural-gas-tsca-petroleum-reserve/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/26/sap-sustainability-report-ghgs-up-8-but-down-6-relative-to-sales/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/26/sap-sustainability-report-ghgs-up-8-but-down-6-relative-to-sales/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:30:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72623 Software corporation SAP emitted eight percent more greenhouse gases in 2011 than 2010, its first year-on-year rise in such emissions since 2007, but its emissions per euro of revenue were down six percent, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report. In 2011, the company emitted 490 kTons of CO2, up from 453 kTons in 2010. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/26/sap-sustainability-report-ghgs-up-8-but-down-6-relative-to-sales/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:55:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69087 The California Air Resources Board has unanimously approved new emissions standards for cars and light trucks, for model years 2017 to 2025. The standard cuts greenhouse gas emissions to 166 grams per mile, which ARB says is 34 percent below predicted 2016 levels, and cuts smog-forming pollution by an extra 75 percent from 2014 levels. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/policy-keystone-xl-hydropower-bill/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/policy-keystone-xl-hydropower-bill/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:10:21 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67139 The House has voted to delay enforcement of new light bulb efficiency standards until at least Oct. 1 as part of a last-minute budget deal to keep the government operating through the rest of the fiscal year, and the Senate is expected to follow suit. Republicans have vowed to press for a full repeal of the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/policy-keystone-xl-hydropower-bill/feed/ 3 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-bonneville-power-n-j-energy-plan-calif-air-resources-board-keystone-xl-bpa-decision/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-bonneville-power-n-j-energy-plan-calif-air-resources-board-keystone-xl-bpa-decision/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:14:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66457 California’s Air Resources Board proposed new rules to reduce emissions from vehicles, including putting 1.4 million electric, plug-in and hydrogen cars on the state’s roads by 2025. The program, scheduled for review by the ARB at a Jan. 26 meeting would save an estimated $22 billion in fuel costs, and reduces GHG emissions from vehicles [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-bonneville-power-n-j-energy-plan-calif-air-resources-board-keystone-xl-bpa-decision/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:05:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65132 Turkey company Bernard Matthews is planning a £4m ($6.4) anaerobic digester at its Holton factory in Suffolk, U.K.,  in a move that the company said would provide 13 percent of the site’s electricity needs, according to the BBC. The digester will use about 28,000 tons of liquid waste a year, the company said. China’s new [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/01/level-3-buys-100-renewable-power-for-three-data-centers/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/01/level-3-buys-100-renewable-power-for-three-data-centers/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:27:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=61117 Level 3 Communications has taken three colocation facilities 100 percent renewable. The communications services provider has signed up to a 100 percent green energy product with the electricity providers for one colocation center in Amsterdam and two facilities in London. The green power product sources its energy from hydroelectric, wind and solar. This is backed [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/01/level-3-buys-100-renewable-power-for-three-data-centers/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/30/modelling-glacier-melt-and-runoff-in-greenland-and-in-the-nepal-himalaya/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/30/modelling-glacier-melt-and-runoff-in-greenland-and-in-the-nepal-himalaya/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:43:15 +0000 AlisonBanwell http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=60918 This is the second in a series of articles from the winners of the 2011 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Awards. Read the first one here. The world’s population is projected to reach approximately 7 billion by 2012. Much of the growth will be in less economically developed countries in central Asia and South America [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/30/modelling-glacier-melt-and-runoff-in-greenland-and-in-the-nepal-himalaya/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/13/co2-to-hold-steady-this-year-but-rise-coming-in-2012/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/13/co2-to-hold-steady-this-year-but-rise-coming-in-2012/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:13:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=58024 The Energy Information Administration expects fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to remain flat in 2011, as higher petroleum and natural gas consumption is offset by a decline in coal, according to the agency’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. Increases in hydroelectric and other renewable energy generation will help to mitigate growth in emissions, EIA says, and it expects [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/07/13/co2-to-hold-steady-this-year-but-rise-coming-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/04/05/unilever-becomes-canadas-biggest-commercial-renewable-purchaser-under-bullfrog-deal/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/04/05/unilever-becomes-canadas-biggest-commercial-renewable-purchaser-under-bullfrog-deal/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:39:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=52114 Unilever Canada will become the single largest commercial purchaser of renewable power in that country through a 59,000 MWh a year deal with Bullfrog Power, the two companies announced today. The agreement between Bullfrog and the manufacturer of brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Axe, Skippy, Q-Tips and Knorr means that many of Unilever Canada’s production [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/04/05/unilever-becomes-canadas-biggest-commercial-renewable-purchaser-under-bullfrog-deal/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/03/31/gm-leads-pack-as-clean-patents-jump-by-record-170/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/03/31/gm-leads-pack-as-clean-patents-jump-by-record-170/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:10:02 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=51894 Clean energy patents hit a record high in 2010, as GM took the leadership position from Honda, according to a patent index published by law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index found that there were 1,181 cleantech patents granted in 2010, up over 170 percent over 2009 levels. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/03/31/gm-leads-pack-as-clean-patents-jump-by-record-170/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/09/21/renewable-energy-standard-revived-in-new-energy-bill/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/09/21/renewable-energy-standard-revived-in-new-energy-bill/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:55:35 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=42497 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators will introduce legislation today that would require utilities to generate minimum levels of power from clean energy like wind and solar, after such a measure was stripped from a broader oil-spill bill in July, Reuters reports.  Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), who heads the Senate energy committee, and Sam Brownback [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/09/21/renewable-energy-standard-revived-in-new-energy-bill/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/02/environmental-leader-introduces-el-insights-data-insights-on-energy-environmental-technology/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/02/environmental-leader-introduces-el-insights-data-insights-on-energy-environmental-technology/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:48:07 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=37280 Environmental Leader LLC is pleased to announce its latest offering for decision-makers, EL Insights, a subscription-based information source delivering critical data and insights on energy and environmental technology. “Whether it’s a corporation developing products for the solar industry, an enterprise analyzing carbon management services, or a company weighing energy efficient lighting or sustainable packaging choices, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/02/environmental-leader-introduces-el-insights-data-insights-on-energy-environmental-technology/feed/ 0