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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent RFPs

April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...