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Leakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’

Leakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’Failure to reduce methane leaks has the potential to eliminate much, if not all, of the greenhouse gas advantage of natural gas over coal, according ...

April 11, 2012

EL Pro Lockheed Meets Green Goals a Year Early

Lockheed Meets Green Goals a Year EarlyDefense company Lockheed Martin has achieved its five-year sustainability goals a year ahead of schedule. Lockheed Martin's programs have reduced its corporate water usage by 25 ...

April 11, 2012

EL Pro RBS Reveals Environmental Goals, Aims to Cut £200m by 2020

RBS Reveals Environmental Goals, Aims to Cut £200m by 2020Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed environmental goals that it hopes will cut £200 million ($318 million) from its costs by 2020. This is the ...

April 10, 2012

Industrial Energy Management Market to Grow 21.6% a Year to 2020, Study Says

Industrial Energy Management Market to Grow 21.6% a Year to 2020, Study SaysThe U.S. market for industrial energy management software and services will rise from $960 million in 2011 to $5.6 billion by 2020, a compound annual ...

April 10, 2012

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data CenterA Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports. Thermal storage systems, typically made ...

April 9, 2012

Building Energy Use Not Primed to Occupancy, MIT Says

Building Energy Use Not Primed to Occupancy, MIT SaysMIT researchers have found that energy use does not always correspond to occupancy. Their study, ENERNET: Studying the dynamic relationship between building occupancy and energy ...

April 9, 2012

Global Carbon Markets Plummet

Global Carbon Markets PlummetThe value of the world's carbon markets declined by 21 percent over the last quarter, despite trading volumes above the historical average, according to analysis ...

April 6, 2012

Solar Installations to Flatline in 2012, Rebound by 2017, Lux Says

Solar Installations to Flatline in 2012, Rebound by 2017, Lux SaysAnnual solar capacity additions will rise by just 0.4 GW in 2012, with 26.9 GW expected to be installed this year, and industry revenues will ...

April 6, 2012

P&G Makes Sustainability Analysis Tool Freely Available; Heineken Rolls Out Supply Chain Analyzer

P&G Makes Sustainability Analysis Tool Freely Available; Heineken Rolls Out Supply Chain AnalyzerProcter & Gamble is to make its environmental sustainability scorecard analysis tool freely available to for use by any company. The Excel-based tool, launched last ...

April 5, 2012

Most Respected U.S Companies Revealed

Most Respected U.S Companies RevealedFood company General Mills has unseated Amazon as the most respected large company among U.S. consumers, according to research by the Reputation Institute - in ...

April 5, 2012

Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds Staff

Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds StaffSolar manufacturers Q-Cells and Solar Trust of America have filed for bankruptcy, leaving the fate of a 1,000 MW California solar thermal project in doubt, ...

April 4, 2012

LG Joins EPA’s Green Power Partnership with 100% Green Energy Use at HQ

LG Joins EPA’s Green Power Partnership with 100% Green Energy Use at HQLG Electronics USA is purchasing more than 1.5 million kWh of green power over the next 18 months in cooperation with the EPA's Green Power ...

April 4, 2012

Xerox, Danone Drop Asia Pulp & Paper after Greenpeace Pressure

Xerox, Danone Drop Asia Pulp & Paper after Greenpeace PressureDanone and Xerox are among a list of companies that have pledged to suspend purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper following a Greenpeace exposé on ...

April 3, 2012

Heineken Starts Online Search for Green Beer Packaging

Heineken Starts Online Search for Green Beer PackagingBeer company Heineken has become the latest company to launch an online open innovation platform, as it seeks ideas to help green up its products. The ...

April 3, 2012

Coal Power Plants to Increase Capacity, GBI Says

Coal Power Plants to Increase Capacity, GBI SaysThe consumption of coal in North America is expected to grow to 940.4 million metric tons (MMt) over the next eight years, as a result ...

April 2, 2012

SCA Achieves First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Plant in North America

SCA Achieves First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Plant in North AmericaSCA announced its first zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing plant in North America. The plant, in Bowling Green, Ky., manufactures SCA's Tena line of incontinence products. The facility, which opened ...

April 2, 2012

Deloitte Outlines Process for Choosing Environmental Metrics

Deloitte Outlines Process for Choosing Environmental MetricsPublic and private companies are finding it a major challenge to determine what environmental, social and governance (ESG) information to disclose, according to a new ...

March 30, 2012

Energy Use in Manufacturing Down 10% in Four Years

Energy Use in Manufacturing Down 10% in Four YearsEnergy consumption in the U.S. manufacturing sector fell from 21,098 trillion Btu (tBtu) in 2006 to 19,062 tBtu in 2010, a decline of almost 10 ...

March 30, 2012

SAP Measuring Footprints of 35,000 Danone Products

SAP Measuring Footprints of 35,000 Danone ProductsGerman software corporation SAP is helping French food group Danone to measure the individual carbon footprints of 35,000 of its products, as the food firm ...

March 29, 2012

Corporates ‘Ineffective’ at Sustainability, Experts Say

Corporates ‘Ineffective’ at Sustainability, Experts SayOnly 17 percent of sustainability experts rate the performance of corporate leaders in addressing the sustainability agenda as effective, down from 24 percent last ...

March 29, 2012