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ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program

April 11, 2007 by Paul Nastu

ConocoPhillips is supporting a mandatory national framework to address greenhouse gas emissions and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership - a business-environmental group. "We have joined USCAP...

Portland International Raceway Explores Offsetting Emissions

April 11, 2007 by Paul Nastu

Portland, Oregon wants to make its International Raceway the first carbon-neutral track in the U.S., the Associated Press reports. The city's Bureau of Parks & Recreation, with help from the city's office of sustainable development, is collecting data to determine how much carbon is emitted from the city-owned...

Supreme Court: EPA Can Regulate Car Emissions

April 2, 2007 by Paul Nastu

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA has authority to regulate vehicle emissions, USATODAY reports. The Bush administration had argued that any limits on new cars and trucks would be incremental...

American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s

March 30, 2007October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

American Airlines will buy 47 Boeing 737 jets four years earlier than planned to begin replacing some of its oldest planes with more fuel-efficient ones, the Chicago Tribune reports. American said it will get the 737-800 jets starting in 2009 to replace some of American's 300...

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020

March 9, 2007 by Paul Nastu

EU leaders agreed Friday that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources by 2020, AP reports. No enforcement mechanism has been agreed on yet. The deal makes three main promises to be obtained by over the next 13 years...

EPA Cuts Diesel Locomotive and Vessel Pollution

March 2, 2007 by Paul Nastu

EPA is proposing a new rule to reduce air pollution from locomotive and marine diesel engines. The Clean Air Locomotive and Marine Diesel Rule would set stringent emission standards and require the use of advanced technology to reduce emissions. When fully implemented, the initiative would cut particulate matter emissions from these engines by 90 percent and nitrogen oxides emissions by

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Joins EPA Performance Track

March 1, 2007October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has joined EPAÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s National Environmental Performance Track program. The airport earned its spot by maintaining a sustained environmental compliance record and committing to reduce the amount of pollutants and waste it generates, while also cutting its energy use...

Bridgeport Retrofits 111 School Buses

February 23, 2007 by Paul Nastu

Bridgeport, Connecticut public school buses will be equipped with devices to reduce diesel emissions. The project involves 111 buses contracted by the city. The program is funded with $534,000 from the settlement of a lawsuit involving the Connecticut Attorney GeneralÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s office and EPA against the Virginia Electric Power Company

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan

February 21, 2007February 29, 2016 by Paul Nastu

A group of companies and organizations from around the world, including Allianz, Bayer, Citigroup, DuPont, General Electric, and Volvo have endorsed a post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly in regard to creating sustainable energy systems necessary for achieving economic growth. The Path to Climate Sustainability: A Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on

Airlines Search For Ways to Cut Emissions

February 12, 2007October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Air travel, which makes up less than three percent of man-made CO2 emissions, has become the whipping boy for environmentalists, The Christian Science Monitor reports. Two factors have placed airline travel in the center of the global-warming debate: The number of airline tickets sold per year could double to more than 9 billion by 2025. In addition, experts see no

Clean Diesel Causes School-Bus Breakdowns

February 8, 2007 by Paul Nastu

Some school districts are blaming clean diesel fuel for school-bus breakdowns that left thousands of kids stranded in the extreme cold this week. On Monday, when temperatures dipped below zero in East Allen County, Ind., 36 of the county's 155 school buses stopped running because the new fuel thickens in the cold. Near Pittsburgh, Hempfield area schools had the same

ExxonMobil WOM Campaign Backfires

February 7, 2007February 8, 2007 by Paul Nastu

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...

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