Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Duke Energy's plans for new coal and nuclear plants did not please all who attended the company's recent shareholder ...

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario

Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 in the U.S., has released its 2007/2008 sustainability report (PDF). According ...

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference

The Wall Street Journal held its CEO-level "ECO:nomics - Creating Environmental Capital" conference in California last week. Here are ...

Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future

Duke Energy is the nation's third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide - after American Electric Power and Southern Co. ...

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. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

Advanced Electricity Technologies Could Lower CO2 Control Costs By 50%

The aggressive development and implementation of a full portfolio of advanced electricity technologies could reduce the economic cost of cutting future U.S. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics

Discovery Channel is launching the first-ever 24-hour TV network dedicated solely to green lifestyle programming. The initiative, launching next year, includes a ...

Nike Sells Carbon Credits to Entergy

Nike has sold emission reduction credits totaling 100,000 metric tons to utility company Entergy. Environmental Resources Trust verified and registered the ...

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020

EU leaders agreed Friday that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources by 2020, AP reports. ...

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. ...

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit ...

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions

Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse ...

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction

President Bush set a goal of reducing U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next 10 years during last night's ...

Westinghouse Wins China Nuke Reactor Contract

China's State Nuclear Power Technology Company will use the Westinghouse AP1000 as the technology basis for four new nuclear power plants ...