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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 ...

Chevron Launching $15 Million Campaign

Chevron Launching $15 Million Campaign
Chevron is launching a global corporate campaign, themed "The Power of Human Energy," that aims to humanize the oil giant and its ...

EPA Report Points To Fuel Efficiency Increase

EPA Report Points To Fuel Efficiency Increase
Reversing a long-term trend of slightly declining fuel economy, EPA is reporting an increase in fuel efficiency for 2006 and 2007, an ...

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Wal-Mart Selling Private Label CFLs

Wal-Mart Selling Private Label CFLs
Wal-Mart is selling private label compact fluorescent light bulbs under its Great Value brand label. “The introduction of our Great Value bulbs ...

94% Of Supply Chain Professionals Rate Green Issues As Business Priority

94% Of Supply Chain Professionals Rate Green Issues As Business Priority
With up to 75 percent of a company’s carbon footprint coming from transportation and logistics, the focus of supply chain greening is beginning ...

EPA Wants BP To Finance Lake Michigan Cleanup

EPA Wants BP To Finance Lake Michigan Cleanup
Insisting that they cannot stop BP from dumping more toxic waste into Lake Michigan, federal officials are trying to persuade the oil company to ...

California Air Resources Board Regulates Off-Road Diesel Emissions

California Air Resources Board Regulates Off-Road Diesel Emissions
The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation to reduce diesel emissions from the state's estimated 180,000 vehicles used in ...

Shell Kicks Off Springboard Competition, Awards Technology That Cuts Emissions

Shell Kicks Off Springboard Competition, Awards Technology That Cuts Emissions
Shell has kicked off its third Springboard competition. Shell hopes to spur innovation in ways to reduce the impact of global warming by ...

Wal-Mart Improves Fleet Fuel Efficiency 15%

Wal-Mart Improves Fleet Fuel Efficiency 15%
Wal-Mart’s fleet of about 7,200 semitractor-trailer trucks is already about 15 percent more fuel efficient than it was when the company announced ...

Auto Alliance Ads Ask For Teamwork In Fight Over Standards

Auto Alliance Ads Ask For Teamwork In Fight Over Standards
After aggressive ads earlier this summer that urged consumers to contact lawmakers and lobby against the Senate energy bill - that ultimately ...

ConocoPhilips Earmarks $25 Million For Water Sustainability Center

ConocoPhilips Earmarks $25 Million For Water Sustainability Center
ConocoPhillips will spend $25 million over the next five to seven years on a global Water Sustainability Center that will examine ...

Dingell Floats Carbon Tax To Measure Its Unpopularity

Dingell Floats Carbon Tax To Measure Its Unpopularity
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell says he will propose a "carbon tax" on the burning of fossil fuels only ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

Ford Issues Sustainability Report

Ford Issues Sustainability Report
Ford Motor Company has released its latest sustainability report. The company reports a reduction in global energy use by 27 percent and water use ...

Corporate America Wants Greener Fleets, Misconceptions Remain

Corporate America Wants Greener Fleets, Misconceptions Remain
Corporate America is starting to look at the millions of cars it owns or leases for traveling salesmen, executives, and technicians as ...

BP Loses Trademark Case Over Color Green

BP Loses Trademark Case Over Color Green
The High Court of Australia has dismissed a bid by BP to have the green Pantone colour 348C used in its logo ...

China Tops U.S. As No. 1 Producer Of CO2 Emissions

China Tops U.S. As No. 1 Producer Of CO2 Emissions
China's emissions of carbon dioxide have exceeded those of the U.S., according to a report released this week by the Netherlands Environmental ...

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, has released its revised climate change policy (PDF), ABC reports. There are four key elements to ...

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Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Certain fast-moving, environmentally-friendly consumable products are being used by a significant portion of the U.S. general population, according to the Natural ...

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Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Gamers Checking Out Green Cars
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Greentech investment experts at GoingGreen discuss how much it will cost the U.S. economy to go carbon neutral....

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Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency
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Marketing

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’

Emissions

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Hi-Tech

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency

Efficiency

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Financial Turmoil May Boost Energy Efficiency Initiatives

GAO: CO2-Offset Market Lacks Credibility

CSR Reports

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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