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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 ...

Survey: Most Americans Want To Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Phase In Alternative Sources

Survey: Most Americans Want To Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Phase In Alternative Sources
Americans may be addicted to coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels today, but a survey from the Opinion Research Corporation finds ...

Hunt Refining Settles Clean Air Act Case For $49 Million

Hunt Refining Settles Clean Air Act Case For $49 Million
The Hunt Refining Co. and Hunt Southland Refining Co. have agreed to pay a $400,000 civil penalty and spend more than $48.5 ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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