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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 ...

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

The American Trucking Associations has launched the first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program under the banner Trucks Deliver a ...

CEOs Call On G8 To Act On Global Water Crisis

The CEOs of 19 of the world's largest corporations have called on G8 leaders to address the global ...

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines

The Canadian province of Alberta received $25 million less from carbon-emissions fines in the past eight months than it ...

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

Russia says it has no plans to cap carbon emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to ...

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

Toxic 100 Fingers DuPont As Top Polluter

DuPont heads this year's Toxic 100, a list of the top corporate air polluters in the U.S. from ...

Beijing Closes Factories To Cut Pollution For Olympics

Beijing announces new measures for heavy polluters to improve air quality for the Olympics....

Environmental Benefit Of CDM Questioned, Again

U.N. regulators who administer the Clean Development Mechanism have objected to dozens of developing-world projects in recent months, questioning ...

Manufacturers Spent $26 Billion On Pollution Prevention In 2005

The U.S. manufacturing sector spent $5.9 billion dollars on capital expenditures and $20.7 billion dollars on operating costs for ...

18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases

Eighteen states are suing the EPA in an attempt to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling ...

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters

Raley's, a supermarket chain with stores in California, has retrofitted 16 older trucks with a new exhaust filtration system resulting in ...

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities

Bankers are discussing the development of lending guidelines - similar to the carbon principles issued by J.P. Morgan ...

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence's EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, ...

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), plans to hold a ...

Sustainable Seafood Gains Traction

Companies are beginning to warm up to the idea of sustainable seafood, Mediapost reports. Whole Foods is capitalizing ...

J.R. Simplot Tops Portfolio’s List Of Polluters

The March issue of Conde Nast Portfolio highlights the best and worst, according to Portfolio, companies on environmental records: Some ...

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. ...

Chinese Polluters Relocate To Avoid Environmental Scrutiny

Chinese factories are moving inland from coastal regions to provinces such as Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangxi in order to escape tighter ...

California Considers Emissions Tax

In what could be a U.S. first, California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District is proposing to charge ...

Today's News

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

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Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Dr. Albert Esser
Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure
Dell

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

eCommerce Goes Green

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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