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Around the Web – Net Impact, Sustainable Packaging, GE, Frontier Oil

Around the Web – Net Impact, Sustainable Packaging, GE, Frontier Oil

Debate arises on sustainable packaging The Packer Business Leaders Converge At C.U. for Net Impact 2009 Cornell Daily Sun Frontier Oil ...

November 17, 2009

Around The Web: Carbon Rations, GE, Ford, Alcoa, Trucks vs Trains

Around The Web: Carbon Rations, GE, Ford, Alcoa, Trucks vs Trains

Today's stories from around the web. G.E. Markets First ‘Smart Appliance’ NY Times Climate Bill Likely on the Shelf For Rest of the Year WSJ...

November 12, 2009

Around the Web – Shell, HP, Obama, Geoengineering

Around the Web – Shell, HP, Obama, Geoengineering

Today's news from around the web. Shell to pay $19.5 mln for California violations Yahoo Finance G20 makes little progress on ...

November 9, 2009

U.S. Cap-and-Trade Creates Winners and Losers among Largest Emitters

U.S. Cap-and-Trade Creates Winners and Losers among Largest Emitters

Under the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, ExxonMobil would face an annual charge of $5.9 billion to purchase carbon allowances, while electricity giants like Exelon and Pacific Gas ...

November 4, 2009

Chesapeake Energy Changes Natural Gas Drilling Over Water Concerns

Chesapeake Energy Changes Natural Gas Drilling Over Water Concerns

Due to environmental concerns over safe drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed not to drill for natural gas within the New York City ...

November 3, 2009

EPA Orders Review of Air Pollution at BP Refinery

EPA Orders Review of Air Pollution at BP Refinery

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Indiana to re-examine several sources of air pollution at BP's Whiting refinery in northwest Indiana, one of the ...

October 22, 2009

Leading CEOs Advise Congress to Support All Energy Sources, Electric Grid

Leading CEOs Advise Congress to Support All Energy Sources, Electric Grid

Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers at leading U.S. companies, is urging Congress and the Obama Administration to support renewable and traditional sources of ...

October 22, 2009

EIA Projects 2009 Emissions Reduction of 29M Metric Tons

EIA Projects 2009 Emissions Reduction of 29M Metric Tons

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects CO2 emissions from the commercial and residential sectors to be 29 million metric tons lower in 2009, or just over ...

October 7, 2009

Oil Stakeholders Rally against Low-Carbon Fuel Standard

Oil Stakeholders Rally against Low-Carbon Fuel Standard

A 125-member group, comprised of oil companies, retailers, trucking and transportation groups, and industry organizations, are stepping up efforts against a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS), reports ...

September 3, 2009

Oil Refiners and Farmers Lobby for Climate Change Concessions

Oil Refiners and Farmers Lobby for Climate Change Concessions

It's a tough road ahead for the U.S. climate bill in the Senate. So far, oil refiners and farmers as well as a leading trade group are expressing their dissatisfaction with the climate legislation recently ...

July 10, 2009

BP Shutters Alternative Energy HQ

BP Shutters Alternative Energy HQ

British Petroleum has shutdown its alternative energy headquarters in London, accepted the resignation of its managing director and announced budget cuts - all moves likely to ...

June 29, 2009

California Delays Carbon Fee Decision

California Delays Carbon Fee Decision

California has delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and ...

June 26, 2009

Cap-and-Trade Financial Risk Small For Most, Disaster for Some

Cap-and-Trade Financial Risk Small For Most, Disaster for Some

The financial risk to companies in the S&P 500 would vary greatly under a cap-and trade program requiring the purchase of carbon emission credits, according to ...

June 3, 2009

Chevron First Big Oil Firm to Track Carbon Content

Chevron First Big Oil Firm to Track Carbon Content

The Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, N.J., a faith-based institutional investor and member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), has withdrawn its greenhouse ...

May 27, 2009

Exxon Mobil Reduces GHG Emissions by 10M Metric Tons

Exxon Mobil Reduces GHG Emissions by 10M Metric Tons

Exxon Mobil Corporation provides details on its environmental, economic and social performance improvements in its newly released 2008 Corporate Citizenship ...

May 26, 2009

Total Cuts Emissions by 5.2% in 2008

Total Cuts Emissions by 5.2% in 2008

Total, the world's fifth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company, has cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 5.2 percent in 2008, according to its recently ...

May 21, 2009

Mirant Gets Top Sustainability Grades in the Energy Sector

Mirant Gets Top Sustainability Grades in the Energy Sector

The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College (CMC) has released a new study that provides an analysis of the social responsibility reporting efforts ...

May 20, 2009

Canada, China, Germany Struggle to Reduce GHG Emissions

Canada, China, Germany Struggle to Reduce GHG Emissions

Although many countries are setting carbon reduction targets, many of them are still struggling with ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- much of it from ...

May 1, 2009

Global Climate Coalition Ignored Own Scientists’ Advice

Global Climate Coalition Ignored Own Scientists’ Advice

It's coming to light that for years the Global Climate Coalition, an industry funded group that has argued that global warming is a sham, ignored the ...

April 27, 2009

BP Lowers Emissions by More Than Three Percent in 2008

BP Lowers Emissions by More Than Three Percent in 2008

British Petroleum (BP) has released its Sustainability Review 2008 that provides an update on the company's responsible operations, environmental performance and its role in society. BP's total ...

April 17, 2009

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