Mining

China May Hoard Rare Earth Metals, Vital to Some Clean Tech

China is considering a ban on export of rare earth metals, which are essential to the production of some alternative energy technologies, including hybrid vehicles and ...

Emissions, Energy, Water Use Rise at Cliffs Natural Resources in 2008

Cliffs Natural Resources, a mining and natural resource company, reports that the company's emissions, energy consumption and water use all increased in 2008, according to its ...

ArcelorMittal to Focus on Sustainable Steel

At the heart of ArcelorMittal's corporate responsibility report for 2008 is the company's goal to deliver sustainable steel, investing $295 million in research and development in ...

Supreme Court Mulls Gold Mine Waste Dumping

Gold mining company Coeur Alaska Inc. recently urged the Supreme Court to uphold the mine owner's permit to discard waste into a nearby lake, even though the company's lawyer acknowledged that the ...

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College released new Pacific Sustainability Index scores on the environmental and social reporting for the financial, electronics and metals sectors. ...

Mining Industry: BofA’s Coal Policy A PR Stunt

Bank of America recently announced that it would phase out loans to coal companies that predominantly use destructive mountaintop removal mining practices, but some say the announcement is a public relations ...

DOE Abandons FutureGen CO2 Project

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to pull its support of a $1.8 billion FutureGen project to build a power plant that captures pollution underground, according to this report. A ...

States Petition EPA on GHG of Nonroad Engines

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a petition to the EPA asking it to adopt GHG emissions standards for nonroad vehicles, engines and equipment. Other states, government agencies ...

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific target and timeline, according to The Carbon Disclosure Project's 5th annual global ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate Response, a newly announced conference, is pulling together corporate sustainability leaders to talk about ...

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 as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel, L M ...

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 the plan, which commits $350 million, less than 0.2 percent of BHP Billiton's ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in the world. 1. Vestas Wind Systems has more than 30,000 wind turbines generating electricity globally ...

Massey Global Warming Proposal Defeated

Massey Energy Co. shareholders rejected the proposal that asked the coal company to explain its response to mounting pressure for limits on carbon dioxide emissions, AP reports. New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. argued ...

Recent RFPs

April 2007 (via CEEP) Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive Species Photovoltaic Devices ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO now committing to act on climate change, big US brands are scrambling to ...

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report that analyzes sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005, will be open for public comment for ...

Coal-Fired Power Off Limits to California Utilities

California's Public Utilities Commission is barring investor-owned utilities from entering long-term contracts to obtain electricity from sources that emit more carbon dioxide than a modern natural gas plant, AP reports. The so-called "greenhouse gas ...