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Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?

February 29, 2008September 15, 2010 by Kevin Tuerff

Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, sometimes marketers forget an important piece of the messaging mix: dialogue. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been counseling clients to utilize almost all types of advertising to ... Read more »

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans

February 28, 2008March 5, 2008 by Paul Nastu

In his first strategy presentation as BP’s CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift from its investments in wind and solar power and fuels made from crops, Reuters reports. Hayward believes BP’s alternative energy investments are worth up to $7 billion. Realizing that value for ... Read more »

Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future

February 22, 2008October 5, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Duke Energy is the nation’s third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide – after American Electric Power and Southern Co. Depending on what controls Congress passes on carbon emissions, that’s a potentially crippling threat for Duke, Forbes reports. If utilities are required to buy credits for all their CO2 emissions in ... Read more »

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel

February 3, 2008October 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world’s first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid fuel processed from gas (Gas to Liquids – GTL) in the first stage of a test flight program to evaluate the environmental impact of alternative fuels in the airline market. The ... Read more »

British Gas Reprimanded for Greenwashing

January 31, 2008 by Paul Nastu

The Advertising Standards Authority said that British Gas broke advertising rules by describing its “greenest” dual fuel package as “zero carbon” in a TV commercial. Fourteen viewers complained it produced CO2 as a by-product, prompting an investigation in which the ASA found the commercial in breach of five advertising rules ... Read more »

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System

January 30, 2008October 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

HTC Purenergy announced that they have launched the world’s first modular, pre-engineered CO2 Capture System, called the Purenergy CCS 1000. The CCS 1000 is a stand alone system that will capture CO2 from the flue gas exhaust of power plants, oil and gas processing facilities and large industrial emitters. The ... Read more »

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

January 24, 2008January 30, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated former oil storage facility near Kokomo, IN. They expect to plant the trees this summer. In a study published last October, co-author and Purdue associate professor Richard Meilan wrote ... Read more »

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions

January 17, 2008January 17, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Ninety-two percent of fleet executives predict fuel prices will remain high or rise over the next year, according to eyefortransport’s Fuel Management for Fleets’ 2008 report. Traditional fuel purchasing strategies are still the most popular way to deal with high fuel prices, with 26 percent of respondents relying on negotiations ... Read more »

GM Wants 10,000 More E85 Retail Locations

January 17, 2008January 16, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Mary Beth Stanek, energy and environment director for GM, said that over the next two or three years, her company will work towards the installation of 10,000 new gas pumps that sell E85, a fuel mixture of 85 percent ethanol. Her words amplified remarks GM CEO Rick Wagoner made at ... Read more »

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP

January 15, 2008January 16, 2008 by Paul Nastu

For seven years, British Petroleum has invested heavily in its “Beyond Petroleum” campaign which has been praised by business press and awards shows but criticized by skeptics as greenwashing. The success of the ongoing campaign has compelled Adweek to ask if advertising, as much as action, can change public perception.Though ... Read more »

Shell Sued Over Texas Refinery Emissions

January 8, 2008October 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of citizens against Shell, reports the Houston Chronicle. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby and the Sierra Club claim Shell and many of its subsidiaries have released millions of pounds of excess toxic air pollutants along the Houston Ship Channel over the past five ... Read more »

Shell CEO Warns Against Raising EU’s Emissions Targets

January 4, 2008 by Paul Nastu

Jeroen Van der Veer, the head of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, said that raising Europe’s current target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 would be a mistake. Longer term goals “have to be achievable,” he said, “because over-stretched targets can have a demotivating effect.” Van der Veer said the ... Read more »

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