Contract Wins: GE, Navarro, Amyris, CH2M Hill
Over the last 12 months GE Power Conversion has won contracts valued at more than $600 million to provide propulsion systems with customers leading the pre-salt oilfield expansion off Brazil’s east...
View ArticleColby College Achieves Carbon Neutrality
Colby College has achieved carbon neutrality, two years before its target date. The small Waterville, Maine school says it achieved neutrality by switching to 100-percent renewable electricity starting...
View ArticleVehicle-to-Building Technology Rises With PEV Sales
Vehicle-to-building technology, which makes energy stored in plug-in electric vehicle batteries available to commercial and residential buildings, is garnering new attention as PEV sales climb,...
View ArticleSodexo to Serve Eco-Labeled Seafood, Improve Supply Chain Sustainability
Sodexo will serve Marine Stewardship Council-certified seafood at 11 Washington, DC-area locations and has agreed to use the Real Food Calculator to increase supply-chain sustainability on all...
View ArticleBNSF CO2 Savings Steady at 30m Metric Tons
BNSF Railway customers’ use of rail for freight shipping prevented more than 30 million metric tons of CO2e from entering the atmosphere in 2012, the company has announced. By shipping freight by rail...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Tyson $4m Penalty, Alcoa Cleanup, BP Appeal
Tyson Foods and several affiliate corporations have agreed pay a $3.95 million penalty, conduct third-party audits and buy $300,000 worth of equipment for chemical emergency first responders, under a...
View ArticleUS Lags in Sustainability Reporting Assurance
While more than half (53 percent) of all companies in the S&P 500 Index and Fortune 500 published sustainability reports in 2011 — up from 19 percent the year before — companies in the US are less...
View ArticleEnergy-Related CO2 Emissions Hit Lowest Levels in 2012
US energy-related CO2 emissions dropped in 2012 to their lowest levels since 1994, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Last year’s emissions — at 5.3 billion metric tons of CO2 —...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Legislators Move Against Renewable Energy
In North Carolina, a house panel began the process of repealing a law that requires state electric utilities to generate a certain amount of power from renewable energy. The Renewable Energy and Energy...
View ArticleOhio State Wins Environmental March Madness National Championship
The Ohio State University is this year’s Environmental March Madness national champion. The school beat out Colorado State University, George Mason University and University of Washington in last...
View ArticleCo-op Lightweights Wine Bottles
The Co-operative has reduced the weight of its own-brand wine bottles, saving 725 metric tons of glass and more than 556 metric tons of CO2 per year, according to the company. The UK grocery chain...
View ArticleMore Voices Emerge in Support of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
In the past few weeks, California’s California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) received a heavy dose of positive news: strong support from major companies to develop cleaner transportation fuel options...
View ArticleBloomberg and Dow Top Rankings of GRI Application
Dow Chemical scored highest among Fortune 100 companies when it comes to applying the Global Reporting Initiative’s guidelines for sustainability reporting, according to a study by the iCompli division...
View ArticleSupersized Crabs Bulking Up on Carbon Pollution
Carbon pollution from power plants, factories and vehicles is settling in the ocean — and supersizing crabs, lobsters and shrimp, The Washington Post reports. But while these crustaceans bulk up as...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Baby Food Trial, GSK Double-Platinum, ISO 50001
Gerber Products, Del Monte Foods, Beech-Nut Nutrition and other major baby food manufacturers are defendants in a lead-labeling lawsuit that went to trial in California yesterday, the AP reports. The...
View ArticleClimate Change Hurts Wine Production, Study Shows
Climate change will threaten grape growing, leading to dramatic production declines in the world’s top wine regions, researchers predict in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
View ArticleYum! Brands Sets Paper Purchasing Goal
Yum! Brands, parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, has set a goal of purchasing paper-based packaging with fiber from responsibly managed forests and recycled sources. The company says it...
View ArticleKitchen Grease Powers London Sewage Works
Leftover grease and oil from restaurants will power a new combined heat and power (CHP) station at Beckton in East London. The plant, developed and run by 2OC and financed by a consortium led by iCON...
View ArticleThe Present and Future of Tidal Power
In the world of renewable energy, tidal power is one of the more abstract, obscured points of discussion. It’s not nearly as mechanically developed as hydro-power or biomass. And it certainly doesn’t...
View ArticleKroger to Add 225 EV Charging Stations
The Kroger Co. and Ecotality will add more than 200 level 2 quick-charge electric vehicle charging stations and 25 DC fast chargers at Kroger supermarkets across the US. The companies say the $1.5...
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