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Westar Releases Energy Plan

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’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 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 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 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 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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Advanced Electricity Technologies Could Lower CO2 Control Costs By 50%

Advanced Electricity Technologies Could Lower CO2 Control Costs By 50%
The aggressive development and implementation of a full portfolio of advanced electricity technologies could reduce the economic cost of cutting future U.S. ...

AEP: Strict Emission Curbs Could Raise Power Prices 50%

AEP: Strict Emission Curbs Could Raise Power Prices 50%
AEP, the No. 1 industrial emitter of carbon dioxide in the U.S., is working on some innovative technologies to cut emissions, but has ...

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, has released its revised climate change policy (PDF), ABC reports. There are four key elements to ...

U.S. Concrete Promotes Green Technology

U.S. Concrete Promotes Green Technology
U.S. Concrete says it's implementing environmental technologies that will reduce potential carbon dioxide emissions by hundreds of thousands of tons annually. The ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Massey Global Warming Proposal Defeated

Massey Global Warming Proposal Defeated
Massey Energy Co. shareholders rejected the proposal that asked the coal company to explain its response to mounting pressure for limits on ...

Massey Faces Emissions Reporting Resolution

Massey Faces Emissions Reporting Resolution
A group of investors, including the California Public Employees Retirement System, came out in support Monday of a shareholder resolution asking coal ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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