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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 ...

BP & Rio Tinto Partner On Hydrogen-Fuel Projects

BP & Rio Tinto Partner On Hydrogen-Fuel Projects
BP and Rio Tinto formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil ...

AEP Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

AEP Releases Corporate Responsibility Report
American Electric Power has released (via CSRWire) its first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report, addressing issues that affect the company’s ...

Will Greenwashers Push the Green Movement Back to the Fringe?

Will Greenwashers Push the Green Movement Back to the Fringe?
If you want to attract a loyal green consumer, use concrete data to support your claims, according to a MarketingProfs article. ...

TXU Taken Private in Largest-Ever Leveraged Buyout

TXU Taken Private in Largest-Ever Leveraged Buyout
TXU has agreed to be taken private by a group of investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas ...

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EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report that analyzes sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Inventory of U.S. ...

Shell Hires Gale Norton

Shell Hires Gale Norton
Former interior secretary for the Bush administration, Gale Norton, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell, The Guardian reports. She is ...

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions
Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse ...

Coal-Fired Power Off Limits to California Utilities

Coal-Fired Power Off Limits to California Utilities
California's Public Utilities Commission is barring investor-owned utilities from entering long-term contracts to obtain electricity from sources that emit more carbon dioxide ...

GE, ConocoPhillips Vie for Hunton IGCC Contract

GE, ConocoPhillips Vie for Hunton IGCC Contract
Hunton Energy is planning a $2.4 billion power plant in the Houston, Texas area that includes CO2 sequestration. The Lockwood integrated gasification ...

GE, DuPont, Alcoa & More Form U.S. Climate Action Partnership

GE, DuPont, Alcoa & More Form U.S. Climate Action Partnership
Ten major companies have formed a group, the United States Climate Action Partnership, which is calling for a firm nationwide limit on ...

Group Asks Banks to Pass on Coal Power

Group Asks Banks to Pass on Coal Power
A coalition of environmental groups says it has won commitments from more than a dozen banks in the last few weeks to ...

NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant

NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant
NRG Energy received a conditional contract from the New York Power Authority to build a 680 net megawatt Integrated Gasification ...

Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal

Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal
California's Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors has rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from ...

AES Westover Gets $50 Million in Clean-Coal Emissions Technology

AES Westover Gets $50 Million in Clean-Coal Emissions Technology
AES is investing $50 million in clean-coal emissions control technology at AES Westover, its 126 MW coal-fired facility near Binghamton, New ...

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a preliminary draft set of rules to implement the Regional ...

DOE, IRS Give $1 Billion in Tax Credits for Clean Coal

DOE, IRS Give $1 Billion in Tax Credits for Clean Coal
The U.S. Department of Energy and the IRS awarded $1 billion in federal tax incentives to nine companies to bring about rapid ...

AES Submits Bids to NYPA to Construct Clean Coal and Biomass Facility

AES Submits Bids to NYPA to Construct Clean Coal and Biomass Facility
AES has submitted two bids to construct a clean coal and biomass facility in Upstate New York in response to a ...

N.C. Agency Recommends Raising Rates to Subsidize Conservation

Believing that raising rates will cut energy use, North Carolina's consumer advocacy agency on utility rate cases has recommended that the state ...

Honeywell Enters Alliance with China’s FibrLINK

Honeywell has entered into a five-year strategic alliance with power industry network and services provider FibrLINK Communications to help China's ...

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Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

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The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Google-designed data centers are the most efficient in the world, according to a post on the company's blog by Urs Hölzle, ...

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Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push

Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push

Mitsubishi Motors came back from bailout in part by pushing eco-cars, Reuters reports. But the global credit crunch is testing the traction ...

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What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
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Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
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Marketing

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Emissions

Supermarkets Shifting to Greener Buildings

Porsche, GM/Chevrolet Win Le Mans Series’ Green Challenge

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Efficiency

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Expert Advice on Making Businesses Carbon Neutral

CDM Applicants Alter Documents To Prove ‘Additionality’

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

CSR Reports

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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