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Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant
When the construction of Hamilton, Ohio-based SMART Papers' $30 million high-efficiency co-generation power plant is complete in the spring ...

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel
Airlines are slowing down and saving millions on fuel, The Associated Press reports. Southwest Airlines says it will save ...

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It
In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits
Royal Dutch Shell says it will stop investing in Europe if utilities are forced to pay for emissions permits ...

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party
Frito-Lay is planning a major ad campaign to tout that one of the factories that makes SunChips is ...

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia
A geo-sequestration plant, capable of capturing and compressing 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide which is stored two kilometers underground, has opened in ...

Activists Mobilize For ‘Fossil Fools Day’

Activists Mobilize For ‘Fossil Fools Day’
Activists are planning over 100 actions around the world tomorrow against what they call "dirty energy industries." The actions are being planned by ...

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities
Bankers are discussing the development of lending guidelines - similar to the carbon principles issued by J.P. Morgan ...

Dow’s Liveris On High Energy Prices And USCAP

Dow’s Liveris On High Energy Prices And USCAP
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris discusses high energy prices and USCAP at WSJ's ECO:nomics conference....

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks
New EPA standards and $100-a-barrel oil are creating demand for hybrid big rigs, garbage trucks and dump trucks, ...

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans
In his first strategy presentation as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift ...

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions
Ninety-two percent of fleet executives predict fuel prices will remain high or rise over the next year, according to eyefortransport's ...

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP
For seven years, British Petroleum has invested heavily in its "Beyond Petroleum" campaign which has been praised by business press and awards ...

Toyota To Make ‘Eco’ Indicators Standard In All Vehicles

Toyota To Make ‘Eco’ Indicators Standard In All Vehicles
Toyota plans to make vehicle efficiency indicators standard in all of its vehicles, hybrid and non-hybrid, reports Green Car Congress.  Toyota ...

Shell CEO Warns Against Raising EU’s Emissions Targets

Shell CEO Warns Against Raising EU’s Emissions Targets
Jeroen Van der Veer, the head of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, said that raising Europe's current target to cut greenhouse gas ...

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. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006
Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 1.5 percent. GHG emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent in ...

EPA Sets 2008 Renewable Fuel Standard

EPA Sets 2008 Renewable Fuel Standard
The EPA has set a new renewable fuels standard of 4.66 percent to meet the 2005 Energy Policy Act's mandate that ...

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive-order suspending all fishing and crabbing for human consumption in areas affected by last week's ...

Foss Switches To Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel

Foss Switches To Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel
Foss Maritime Company is switching its vessels from low sulfur diesel fuel to ultra low sulfur diesel fuel. Foss’s fuel switch to ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

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Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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