Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Duke Energy's plans for new coal and nuclear plants did not please all who attended the company's recent shareholder ...

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

American Electric Power Co. has a plan to reduce and offset its greenhouse gas emissions. Demonstrating and deploying ...

China Emissions Underestimated, Top US

A report to be published next month in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management by researchers from the ...

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario

Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 in the U.S., has released its 2007/2008 sustainability report (PDF). According ...

BofA Adopts Carbon Principles, CEO Voted Fossil Fool Of The Year

Bank of America says it will adopt The Carbon Principles, a set of guidelines issued by J.P. Morgan ...

Activists Mobilize For ‘Fossil Fools Day’

Activists are planning over 100 actions around the world tomorrow against what they call "dirty energy industries." The actions are being planned by ...

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities

Bankers are discussing the development of lending guidelines - similar to the carbon principles issued by J.P. Morgan ...

Westar Releases Energy Plan

Westar Energy has published an energy plan, Meeting Our Customers' Energy Needs: A Strategic Plan for Uncertain Times ...

Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future

Duke Energy is the nation's third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide - after American Electric Power and Southern Co. ...

Luminant Details Emissions Reduction Plan

Luminant, a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings - formerly TXU - has released details of a voluntary emissions ...

Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Unveil ‘Carbon Principles’

Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have announced new standards that will make it harder for companies to ...

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System

HTC Purenergy announced that they have launched the world's first modular, pre-engineered CO2 Capture System, called the ...

Xcel Plans Sorbent Injection System To Slash Mercury Emissions

Xcel Energy has filed plans that the company says will reduce mercury emissions from two Minnesota plants by 90 percent. The plans ...

Senate Passes Energy Bill

An energy bill that included an increase in fuel-economy standards passed the Senate by a margin of 86-8 yesterday, The New ...

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade

United States Steel Corporation is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton plant coke making operation near ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

CARMA Tracks Emissions From 50,000 Power Plants

The Carbon Monitoring for Action database launched last week. CARMA says it is most detailed and comprehensive information on carbon ...

RAN Campaign Targets Citi, BofA

Rainforest Action Network says that "thousands" of activists in more than 50 cities across the U.S. turned out last week to ...

Kansas Rejects Proposed Coal Plant Because Of CO2 Emissions

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has become the first government agency in the U.S. to cite carbon dioxide emissions ...

AEP To Pay $4.6 Billion In Record Clean Air Settlement

In a record settlement, American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost ...