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Microsoft Releases Carbon Fee Playbook for Companies

December 13, 2013December 13, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Microsoft has released its carbon fee playbook, an overview on how it implemented its internal carbon price and fee that includes a five-step process to guide other companies on how to put it into action at their own businesses. Microsoft made a pledge in July 2012 to make its operations ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: RFS, EPA Bee Suit, McCarthy in China

December 11, 2013December 11, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The American Petroleum institute and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers filed a court brief on Monday accusing the EPA of ignoring a series of legal deadlines for the Renewable Fuel Standard. The EPA is required to issue annual renewable fuel levels each November, but did not issue the 2013 RFS ... Read more »

BP Releases $627 Million Plan for Oil Spill Restoration

December 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Toxic chemicals associated with the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be linked to continued problems growing oysters in Louisiana waters as well as the deaths of hundreds of bottlenosed dolphins and thousands of sea turtles and migratory waterfowl, according to an environmental assessment released Friday. The assessment also says ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: SCOTUS Air Case, Renewables Mandate, UK Backs BP

December 6, 2013December 6, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

President Obama has ordered the federal government to use 10 percent renewables by 2015 and 20 percent by 2020, nearly tripling its current renewables consumption, the AP reports. The order enacts a promise made in June and raises the target from 7.5 percent. The order also requires agencies to install ... Read more »

Big Oil, Major Firms Plan for Carbon Price

December 5, 2013December 5, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric and about two dozen other major US companies have already integrated a price on carbon emissions into their long-term business plans, according to a CDP report. In 2013, 28 companies based or operating in the US disclosed that they use an internal carbon price in ... Read more »

Manufacturers Challenge EPA’s Ruling Against BP

December 3, 2013December 3, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Manufacturers’ Center for Legal Action has joined other business groups in supporting BP’s effort to fight the EPA’s debarment ruling, which suspended BP and its named affiliated companies from new contracts with the federal government. The National Association of Manufacturers senior vice president and general counsel Linda Kelly calls ... Read more »

90 Firms Responsible for Two-Thirds of Emissions

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013 by Leon Walker

Just 90 companies, including ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil and BP, are responsible for causing almost two-thirds of all man-made global emissions during the industrial era, according to research by the Climate Accountability Institute. These “carbon majors” include 50 investor-owned companies, 31 state-owned companies, and nine government-run industries in the former Soviet Union, China and ... Read more »

BP Releases Oil Spill Cleanup Environmental Data

November 19, 2013November 19, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BP has released environmental data used in its efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico where its Macondo well spilled millions of barrels of oil in 2010. Since the oil spill, federal and state agencies, as well as BP, have collected more than 2.3 million lines of water chemistry ... Read more »

‘Misguided’ Water-Risk Management at Largest Firms, CDP Says

October 31, 2013November 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A misguided approach to water-related risk management is business as usual at the world’s largest global companies such as BP, Bayer, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Nestle, Walmart and Unilever, according to a CDP report released today. Instead of focusing on reducing water use, which CDP says threatens shareholder value and ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP and Chevron Trials, Airliner Carbon, Ameren Sale

October 16, 2013October 16, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Anthony Badalamenti, former cementing technology director at Halliburton, formally pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to destroying evidence connected with the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Reuters reported. Meanwhile a federal court has extended the EPA’s deadline to respond to BP’s lawsuit challenging the freeze on new ... Read more »

Top 100 Global Cleantech Firms Named

October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LanzaTech, RecycleBank, ChargePoint and Desalitech are among the companies to make the most recent Global Cleantech 100 list and report. The fifth annual list, compiled by Cleantech Group, recognizes the companies most likely to have a significant market impact over the next five to 10 years, according to the global ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Chevy, GMC, Tesla, Subaru, Kia, Ford

October 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevrolet and GMC will offer bi-fuel versions of the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty trucks and dedicated compressed natural gas versions of the 2014 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size passenger vans next year. The bi-fuel versions of Silverado HD and Sierra HD are equipped to run on ... Read more »

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