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Shell Sued Over Texas Refinery Emissions

Shell Sued Over Texas Refinery Emissions
Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of citizens against Shell, reports the Houston Chronicle.  Environment Texas Citizen Lobby ...

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 ...

ConocoPhillips Releases Sustainability Report, Opinion Research Numbers

ConocoPhillips Releases Sustainability Report, Opinion Research Numbers
ConocoPhillips has made its 2006 Sustainable Development Report available online (PDF). Overall, Total energy consumption by ConocoPhillips in ...

House Sends Energy Bill To Senate, White House Promises Veto

House Sends Energy Bill To Senate, White House Promises Veto
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive energy bill on Thursday on a 235 to 181 vote. The Energy Independence and ...

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

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 ...

365 Main Customers Pass On Natural-Gas-Powered Data Center

365 Main Customers Pass On Natural-Gas-Powered Data Center
365 Main, a data center developer and operator, wanted to build a new data center in Newark, Calif. fueled entirely by ...

Ethanol Losing Its Lustre

Ethanol Losing Its Lustre
Ethanol has gone from the answer for U.S. energy independence to what some are calling a cure that is worse than the ...

Oil Prices Shake Consumer Confidence

Oil Prices Shake Consumer Confidence
U.S. consumer confidence reached its lowest level in more than two years amid concerns over record-high oil prices, continued trouble in ...

BP Criminal Fines & Safety Upgrades For Air Violations Approach $500 Million

BP Criminal Fines & Safety Upgrades For Air Violations Approach $500 Million
BP Products North America has agreed to pay a total criminal fine of more than $60 million for violations of federal environmental ...

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 ...

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

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 ...

ConocoPhillips To Offset Emissions In Exchange For Refinery Expansion

ConocoPhillips To Offset Emissions In Exchange For Refinery Expansion
ConocoPhillips has agreed to an “unprecedented global warming reduction plan” to off-set greenhouse gases caused by the expansion of its Northern ...

UK Energy Suppliers Rev Up Green Campaigns

UK Energy Suppliers Rev Up Green Campaigns
British Gas has launched a UK advertising campaign to trumpet its green credentials and position itself has having the lowest carbon ...

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 ...

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations
Equistar Chemicals, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address air, water ...

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

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 ...

Florida To Cut Emissions

Florida To Cut Emissions
Florida's Governor Crist has signed three executive orders directing cuts in Florida's greenhouse gas emissions and increases in energy efficiency, ENS reports. Under ...

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 ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

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Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
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Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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