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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Beijing Closes Factories To Cut Pollution For Olympics

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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Sustainable Seafood Gains Traction

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

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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California Considers Emissions Tax

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

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DuPont, 3M, Daikin and Others Reduce PFOA

In response to the 2006 EPA launch of the 2010/15 PFOA Stewardship Program, eight companies have reported ...

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