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Web Tool Provides Access to Firms’ SEC Climate Change Disclosures

July 2, 2014July 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ceres and CookESG Research have launched a free web tool for accessing climate change-related disclosures in company filings with the US Securities Exchange Commission. The tool allows users to filter and customize company 10-K filing excerpts relating to clean energy, renewables, weather risk and climate-related regulatory risks and opportunities. The ... Read more »

DOE Report Explores Water Energy Nexus

June 20, 2014June 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water scarcity, variability and uncertainty are becoming more prominent, potentially leading to vulnerabilities of the US energy system, according to a US Department of Energy report. The report frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for the DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for ... Read more »

Climate Change Costing Companies ‘Millions’

May 20, 2014May 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Gap, HP and Dr Pepper Snapple Group are among the S&P 500 companies facing climate change related risks and costs, according to a CDP report. The report, which reviews findings from CDP 2011-2013 disclosures, finds reported risks affect companies in all economic sectors and include damage to facilities, reduced product ... Read more »

Lloyd’s of London Urges Insurers to Factor in Climate Change Risk

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, is urging insurers to factor climate change into their catastrophe models. The report, “Catastrophe Modelling and Climate Change,” says climate change is expected to continue to happen even if strong action is taken to cut greenhouse gases. Policymakers and planners will have to use climate ... Read more »

Firehouses Add Solar Hot Water Heaters

May 5, 2014 by William Opalka

Five solar hot water heaters added to New York City buildings may not sound like much, but this could be the beginning of something much larger. The five are firehouses in the Rockaways section of Queens, which had been damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Four suffered extensive flooding that required repairs ... Read more »

Solar Hot Water Systems at NY Firehouses Save City Money, Cut Carbon

May 1, 2014May 1, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Solar hot water heating is the redheaded stepchild of the renewable energy world. Most people have no idea what it is. Or, they confuse it with its attention-grabbing cousin, solar photovoltaics, the solar panels we all know about that convert light into electricity and glint on a rapidly increasing number ... Read more »

Improved Utility Storm Planning Begins Here

April 15, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Hurricane Sandy made it obvious that electric distribution utilities were ill-prepared to prevent large-scale power outages or quickly restore power to businesses and households. After Sandy, many states and industry groups created special commissions and studies that offered prescriptions to harden the energy infrastructure. However, this past winter’s storms, and ... Read more »

Top EPA Management Challenges: Site Reuse, Chemical Risks, Delegation to States

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA’s top management challenges in 2013 were oversight of delegation to states, safe reuse of contaminated sites, enhancing IT security to combat cyber threats, lack of information and authority for managing chemical risks, and workforce planning, according to the agency’s inspector general. The OIG’s annual plan for FY14 says ... Read more »

7-Eleven Saves Energy for Peak Demand Days

February 7, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Green Charge Networks says it has signed agreements for 1 MW of energy storage with retail chain customers and city municipalities, including 7-Eleven and Walgreens stores. Green Charge caters to businesses in California and New York City that sometimes pay 40 percent or more of their monthly electric bill in ... Read more »

Most Important Climate Change Question: How Will Investors React?

January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Newsrooms and dinner table talk hum with observations about crazy weather patterns and natural disasters from Hurricane Sandy to Philippine typhoons. Scientists blame rising CO2 levels caused by human activities, mainly energy production and use, and the greenhouse effect. The energy industry is finger-pointing at the coal sector in a ... Read more »

Wholesale Food Supplier Installs 1.56 MW Solar

December 10, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

The Ross Solar Group completed a 1.56 MW rooftop solar installation for Jetro Cash and Carry at the company’s Hunts Point Restaurant Depot facility in the Bronx, NY. The system also integrates a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that allows Con Edison to remotely monitor and control the ... Read more »

Sustainability Mythbusters: Debunking the Sustainability Myths

December 9, 2013December 9, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Welcome to the Sustainability Mythbusters series presented by Schneider Electric. In this six-part series, Schneider Electric’s Global Sustainability Services team explores common misconceptions related to the topic of sustainability and presents a business case to “bust” each myth. Sustainability does not make business sense Anyone who would say that there ... Read more »

Web Tool Provides Access to Firms’ SEC Climate Change Disclosures

DOE Report Explores Water Energy Nexus

Climate Change Costing Companies ‘Millions’

Lloyd’s of London Urges Insurers to Factor in Climate Change Risk

Firehouses Add Solar Hot Water Heaters

Solar Hot Water Systems at NY Firehouses Save City Money, Cut Carbon

Improved Utility Storm Planning Begins Here

Top EPA Management Challenges: Site Reuse, Chemical Risks, Delegation to States

7-Eleven Saves Energy for Peak Demand Days

Most Important Climate Change Question: How Will Investors React?

Wholesale Food Supplier Installs 1.56 MW Solar

Sustainability Mythbusters: Debunking the Sustainability Myths

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