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Sierra Club Petitions Against Nation’s First GHG Permit

May 5, 2011May 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Sierra Club and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network have filed a legal challenge against the country’s first greenhouse gas (GHG) permit, issued in Louisiana in January. The environmental groups’ petition urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to object to the permit for Nucor Corp.’s direct reduced iron (DRI) plant, ... Read more »

HP Energy Use Down, Air Travel GHGs Up

May 4, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

HP reduced its electricity consumption, total energy use and operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2010, though emissions from employee air travel shot up by 49 percent, according to the company’s tenth annual Global Citizenship Report. In 2010, HP’s GHG emissions from operations fell by nine percent, from 2,060,300 to ... Read more »

AEP Aims for 10% GHG Reduction

April 28, 2011May 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

AEP expects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by ten percent by 2020, from 2010 levels – even as it warns that it cannot afford to take on voluntary carbon reduction initiatives. In its 2011 Corporate Accountability Report, AEP said that it emitted 134 million metric tons of GHGs from ... Read more »

Kodak Cuts GHGs, Energy by Almost 50%

April 22, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Eastman Kodak reduced its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 49 percent from 2002 to 2010, coming close to a goal of a 50 percent cut by the end of 2012, according to the company’s 2010 progress report (pdf) on its sustainability goals. The GHG reduction of more than ... Read more »

Shell Direct GHG Emissions Up 9%

April 14, 2011May 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Royal Dutch Shell’s direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its facilities rose by 9 percent in 2010, and its natural gas flaring rose by 32 percent, according to the company’s 2010 sustainability report. Direct GHG emissions in 2010 were 75 million tons, up from 69 million tons in 2009. Shell ... Read more »

GHG Regs Avoid Ax in 11th Hour Budget Deal

April 11, 2011April 11, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on greenhouse gas emissions appear to have escaped the hatchet in federal budget negotiations. Democrats and Republicans came to a tentative consensus on the budget shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday night, averting the government shutdown that was due to start just over an hour ... Read more »

US Emissions Fell in 2009, But UK Data Suggests Rises Could Be in Store

April 4, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The U.S.’s total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell 5.8 percent between 2008 and 2009, the largest drop in the 19 years emissions have been tracked, according to new figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The one-year decline from 6,983 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) in ... Read more »

SAP Triples Renewables, Reports Cuts in GHG and Energy

March 25, 2011March 25, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

SAP reduced its greenhouse gas emissions, total energy consumption and data center energy per employee in 2010, while tripling the percentage of its energy that comes from renewables, according to the company’s 2010 Sustainability Report. Last year the software vendor raised the proportion of its energy derived from renewable sources ... Read more »

Disney Cuts Electricity Use, But GHG Increases

March 23, 2011March 23, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Walt Disney Company saw a 0.5 percent increase in direct greenhouse gas emissions between 2009 and 2010, despite reducing electricity consumption by 2.7 percent in that year. The company’s 2010 Corporate Citizenship Report shows that greenhouse gas emissions declined by 4.6 percent between 2006 and 2010, and electricity consumption ... Read more »

United Natural Foods Selects Hara for Energy Efficiency and GHG Reduction

March 18, 2011March 18, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

United Natural Foods, the distributor of more than 60,000 organic, natural and fair trade products, has selected Hara’s Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) software to help with energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction strategies. The platform will allow United to aggregate data, establish baselines and track reduction targets across a ... Read more »

EPA Announces New GHG Reporting Deadline

March 17, 2011March 17, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that the final, revised deadline for reporting 2010 greenhouse gas (GHG) data will be September 30, 2011. The EPA announced earlier this month that it was pushing back the reporting deadline for greenhouse gas emissions from large emitters and fuel suppliers, originally set ... Read more »

NYC, Six States Take GHG Suit to Supreme Court

March 15, 2011March 15, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Six states and New York City have filed papers urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold states’ rights to sue power companies over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman filed the brief on behalf of New York City and state, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Rhode Island ... Read more »

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