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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 ...
Lockheed Meets Green Goals a Year Early
Defense 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 ...
RBS Reveals Environmental Goals, Aims to Cut £200m by 2020
Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed environmental goals that it hopes will cut £200 million ($318 million) from its costs by 2020. This is the ...
Industrial Energy Management Market to Grow 21.6% a Year to 2020, Study Says
The 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 ...
Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center
A Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports.
Thermal storage systems, typically made ...
Building Energy Use Not Primed to Occupancy, MIT Says
MIT researchers have found that energy use does not always correspond to occupancy.
Their study, ENERNET: Studying the dynamic relationship between building occupancy and energy ...
Global Carbon Markets Plummet
The 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 ...
Solar Installations to Flatline in 2012, Rebound by 2017, Lux Says
Annual 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 ...
P&G Makes Sustainability Analysis Tool Freely Available; Heineken Rolls Out Supply Chain Analyzer
Procter & Gamble is to make its environmental sustainability scorecard analysis tool freely available to for use by any company.
The Excel-based tool, launched last ...
Most Respected U.S Companies Revealed
Food company General Mills has unseated Amazon as the most respected large company among U.S. consumers, according to research by the Reputation Institute - in ...
Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds Staff
Solar 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, ...
LG Joins EPA’s Green Power Partnership with 100% Green Energy Use at HQ
LG 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 ...
Xerox, Danone Drop Asia Pulp & Paper after Greenpeace Pressure
Danone and Xerox are among a list of companies that have pledged to suspend purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper following a Greenpeace exposé on ...
Heineken Starts Online Search for Green Beer Packaging
Beer 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 ...
Coal Power Plants to Increase Capacity, GBI Says
The 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 ...
SCA Achieves First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Plant in North America
SCA 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 ...
Deloitte Outlines Process for Choosing Environmental Metrics
Public and private companies are finding it a major challenge to determine what environmental, social and governance (ESG) information to disclose, according to a new ...
Energy Use in Manufacturing Down 10% in Four Years
Energy 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 ...
SAP Measuring Footprints of 35,000 Danone Products
German 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 ...
Corporates ‘Ineffective’ at Sustainability, Experts Say
Only 17 percent of sustainability experts rate the performance of corporate leaders in addressing the sustainability agenda as effective, down from 24 percent last ...
