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Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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’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 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

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

DuPont, 3M, Daikin and Others Reduce PFOA

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 ...

London’s Low Emission Zone Up And Running

London’s Low Emission Zone Up And Running
Britain has implemented its first low-emission zone in London, and it will cost some truckers $295 to drive ...

Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Unveil ‘Carbon Principles’

Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Unveil ‘Carbon Principles’
Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have announced new standards that will make it harder for companies to ...

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts
According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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