Raytheon Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Drop 13%
Raytheon last year reduced its emissions of greenhouse gas equivalent by 13 percent, from 596,000 to 522,000 metric tons, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. About 92 percent of...
View Article‘Ebay’ for Recycled Oil Readies for October Launch
StayGreen Oil, an online market place for used petroleum and plant-based oils, has so far collected over 3,000 gallons prior to a planned public launch in October. The web site, which allows buyers and...
View ArticleTesco Says First All-LED Store Will Produce 30% Energy Savings
Tesco expects the lighting system at its first all-LED store to produce 30 percent energy savings compared to other Tesco Express stores. The UK’s largest retailer opened the doors to its all-LED store...
View ArticleFund Managers, Investors Increasingly Focus on Environmental, Social and...
Many of the most recognized names in the private equity industry are currently leveraging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tools to create financial value for their investment funds. Looking...
View ArticlePepco, NYSE Top Carbon Disclosure’s S&P 500 Rankings, As US Firms Improve...
Pepco Holdings, NYSE Euronext and Wells Fargo top the Carbon Disclosure Project’s annual carbon performance and disclosure ratings for the S&P 500, released today. CDP and PricewaterhouseCoopers...
View ArticleIndustry Collaboration: Achieving Broader Sustainability Goals
Within an organization, regardless of the goals at hand, organized task forces, working groups, and focus groups have historically formed to solve the most pressing issues. Going beyond the walls of a...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: Wind Tax Credit, ETS and Airlines, Japan...
The House is expected to vote by Friday on the federal greenhouse gas regulations bill and other White House policies that Republicans allege are harming the coal industry, citing job losses at coal...
View ArticleBoeing, American Airlines’ Protoype Plane Finds 2% Potential Fuel Savings
Fuel-efficient technologies tested on Boeing and American Airlines’ ecoDemonstrator airplane can cut fuel consumption by 2 percent, Boeing has told Environmental Leader. Technologies on the...
View ArticleLufthansa, Algae Tec to Build Algae-based Biofuels Plant
German carrier Lufthansa has signed a collaboration agreement with Australian-based Algae Tec to build a large-scale algae-to-aviation biofuels production facility in Europe. The agreement forms the...
View ArticleSurvey: 80% of Real Estate Investors, Managers Have Sustainability Strategy
Real estate investors and managers are sharpening their focus on sustainability issues with 60 percent collecting and reporting energy consumption data in 2012, nearly double from last year, according...
View ArticleEnterprise NY Locations Reduce Energy Use 10% Since 2010
Enterprise Holdings has reduced energy use by almost 10 percent since 2010 at more than 400 Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car rental facilities in metro New York. Even...
View ArticleNearly 50% of CFOs Say Sustainability is Key Driver of Financial Performance
Nearly one half of CFOs see sustainability as a key driver of financial performance and two-thirds are involved in driving strategies in their organizations, according to a global Deloitte survey of...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Organic Labeling, EPA WaterSense, Lighting...
Whole Foods Market has taken steps to assure that personal care products in its US stores are third-party certified when using the word “organic”; the company says it is the first national retailer to...
View ArticlePreparing for Green Chemistry
After multiple proposals and nearly four years of public consultation, California recently reproposed its groundbreaking “green chemistry” regulations. Referred to as the “Safer Consumer Products”...
View ArticleWyndham Sustainability Report: Normalized CO2 Emissions Drop 5%
Hospitality company Wyndham Worldwide reduced its normalized carbon footprint by 5 percent over the course of 2011, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. In 2010, the company...
View ArticleIndustry Group: 204 Coal Power Plants to Close in Next 5 Years
More than 200 coal-based generating plants are scheduled to shut down in the next three to five years, representing 31,000 MW of electric generating capacity, due in part to regulations issued by the...
View ArticleThe North Face, Wrangler Parent Company To Use Schneider Electric EMS
VF Corporation has announced it will use Schneider Electric’s online energy management and sustainability platform to track energy, water and emissions data across all of its brands including The North...
View ArticleRetroficiency Remotely IDs $2.3m Potential Energy Savings for Liberty Property
Liberty Property Trust has identified $2.3 million in energy savings potential across 110 buildings using building efficiency software company Retroficiency’s Virtual Energy Assessment tool. The tool...
View ArticleBiggest PACE Green Building Program Launches in California
Fourteen counties and 126 cities in California have launched CaliforniaFIRST, the nation’s largest finance program for green building upgrades that uses the Property Assessed Clean Energy financing...
View ArticleIntel, Dow Cut Water Use, Spend Millions on Public Infrastructure
Intel is spending more than $200 million on public infrastructure, including water and wastewater facilities, at its operations in Ocotillo, Ariz., and has partnered with the nearby City of Chandler to...
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