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Former interior secretary for the Bush administration, Gale Norton, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell. This is the latest in a series of appointments at the company which has been trying to increase output of shale and oil sands schemes from places such as Colorado. Norton has joined as a general counsel for Shell's...
Washington's Puget Sound Energy recently signed green power agreements with cities and other government entities from Bellingham to Olympia. “The city of Bellingham, city of Olympia, LOTT (Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater and Thurston County) Alliance, and Whatcom County have all signed agreements with Puget Sound Energy to purchase green power to support the development of clean, renewable energy in the Pacific
ExxonMobil recently launched a word of mouth campaign and tried to court public opinion by reaching out to green writers from blogs like The Oil Drum, Watthead, Energy Bulletin, and Environmental Law Prof Blog, Environmental Economics reports. The impetus could have been a January...
Plenty Magazine has predicted the next green companies set to change the world. The Plenty 20 includes members of the Fortune 500 whose initiatives are changing big business's relationship with the environment as well as smaller start-up companies. Nanosolar earned the top spot with its efforts to make solar power as affordable as electricity produced by coal and natural gas...
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is leading a nationwide coalition of utilities to tackle energy efficiency programs for the high tech sector, focusing on data centers. PG&E says it has developed programs and services for the IT industry, and is sharing the information with other utilities. Many regions across the U.S. are experiencing huge new demands for electric infrastructure as
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All-hybrid airport car service PlanetTran has launched West Coast operations with the opening of services to San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Airports. The company is expanding its business from Boston, where it operates a fleet of hybrid vehicles to serve corporate customers...
Marriott International says that more than 85 of its hotels will earn the Energy Star label – signifying 35 percent less energy use than average buildings – from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this year. Marriott already has more than 200 Energy Star-labeled hotels. The company has set a goal to certify at least eight hotels per month - 12
President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit Free Press reports. The proposed budget for the Department of Energy includes $42 million for developing batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles, a modest increase from last year's $31-million request. The administration's request for vehicle efficiency...
Frontier Natural Products Co-op has purchased renewable energy credits from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to equal 100 percent of the electricity used at its Iowa and Colorado facilities. In addition, customers can purchase BEF Green Tags to offset the environmental impacts...
Barrclays has made a renewable energy purchase that will reduce its carbon footprint by up to 125,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year - the equivalent to the emissions produced by 19,000 homes in the UK in the course of a year, the company reports. Starting from April 2007, 50 percent of Barclays UK electricity consumption...
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The European Commission will announce carbon dioxide emissions cuts for the car industry on Wednesday, Forbes reports. EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas is aiming at a C02 emissions target of 120 grams per kilometre by 2012 for cars sold in Europe. Although the Commission will target an overall cut in car emissions to 120 g/km by 2012 from current levels
Philadelphia's City Council is considering installing rubber sidewalks, KYW1060 reports. City Councilman at large Jim Kenney recently toured Chicago to see its environmentally-friendly city projects. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, Kenney and fellow Councilman Frank DiCicco introduced a resolution calling for hearings on the long-term benefits of replacing cement sidewalks with rubber sidewalks...
Wind energy markets around the world exceeded expectations in 2006, with the installation of 15,197 megawatts, taking the total installed wind energy capacity to 74,223 MW, up from 59,091 MW in 2005, the Global Wind Energy Council reports (via North American Wind Power). The annual market for wind continued to increase at the rate of 32 percent following the 2005
Costco has installed its second solar-powered energy system at its Lake Elsinore, California warehouse. It used a turnkey solar system from SunEdison, which will produce 595 kW (DC) 496kW (AC) through the 45,000 square foot system. The new system is expected to supply in excess of...
WARW-FM in Washington, D.C., is becoming the first "green" radio station in the U.S. It is also changing its format, expanding to include current rock in addition to the classic rock. The change to an environmentally responsible approach, along with the format change, also precipitated a name change, to 94.7 The Globe.
In early 2005, Cinemark, with 310 theaters and 3,349 screens in the U.S. and abroad, began replacing 11-watt 11S14 incandescent lamps with 2-W Micro-Brite cold cathode fluorescent lamps from Litetronics in its exterior marquees and some interior menu boards, Energy & Power Management reports. Art Justice, Cinemark’s energy manager, estimates that more than half of Cinemark’s U.S. theaters are now
Chariho Vocational Technical School and East Providence Vocational Technical School, both in Rhode Island, have spent $2.6 million to lower energy costs by more than $139,000 a year and reduce electricity demand. Chevron Energy Solutions completed the upgrade which included...
KT Tunstall and Virgin Records have partnered with Travelocity to host a private concert at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas this week to support efforts to slow climate change, including Travelocity’s carbon offset program. The event will consist of a...
Florida's Nanak's Landscaping, a commercial landscaper with overall growth in the $30 million range and branches in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Sarasota, has used an Alternative Energies Technologies Grant from the state to install a 20.1 kW Solar PV System at their Orlando facility and corporate headquarters. "The program helped by making suggestions on the quality of materials required and
A coalition of utility firms, including Tucson Electric Power, Arizona Public Service and the Salt River Project, are considering building a 250-megawatt solar power plant that could power as many as 250,000 homes. Utility officials said they're looking at sites in Nevada and Arizona. Other potential partners include the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Sacramento Municipal
Alliance Star Energy, a joint venture between FuelCell Energy and Alliance Power, has received a $1.25 million incentive check from Pacific Gas and Electric Company to help pay for a fuel cell electric power plant at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel in San Mateo, California. The power plant from FuelCell Energy will generate 500 kilowatts of
Twelve corporations in WWF's Climate Savers Program are on course to eliminate at least ten million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually by 2010. Members include Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Nike, Polaroid, Collins, Xanterra, Sagawa, Sony, Lafarge, Catalyst, Tetra Pak, and Novo Nordisk, met last week in Paris. If 1,300 more large companies join them, this would fulfil the current
The 113 scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued their report (PDF summary for policymakers)today which states that it is "very likely" (90 percent certainty) that global warming is man-made...
Bank of America is expanding its program to reimburse $3,000 to employees purchasing a new hybrid vehicle to more than 185,000 U.S.-based associates...
Wal-Mart has launched Sustainability 360, a company-wide program that will try and engage Wal-Mart's associates, suppliers, communities and customers...