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President Obama’s ambitious goal of improving auto fuel efficiency to nearly 55 miles per gallon by 2025 may be jeopardized by credits and loopholes.
by Marc Gunther
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Many have sung the sharing economy's environmental praises, but the evidence may not be there to back up their claims.
by Marc Gunther
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Ford is a sustainability leader in the auto industry -- but it can only do so much about climate change.
by Marc Gunther
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Bill Gates is backing the world's largest algae farm. What does he know that the rest of us don't?
by Marc Gunther
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The San Francisco-based startup is using social media to connect drivers with commuters and road trippers needing rides – saving money, helping the environment and sometimes helping customers make new friends.
by Marc Gunther
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Steve Case, who led America Online to glory during the Internet boom, aims to disrupt the energy, healthcare and education industries as the CEO of Revolution.
by Marc Gunther
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Why would the world's largest auto maker invest in a company that helps people use fewer cars?
by Marc Gunther
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Who would have thought that Bill Ford, the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Co., and GM Ventures, the venture capital arm of General Motors, would invest in peer-to-peer car sharing companies?
by Marc Gunther
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In advance of his new film with Universal Pictures, The Lorax is promoting environmentally friendly sponsors such as HP, Seventh Generation and Whole Foods. He's also advertising a Mazda SUV.
by Marc Gunther
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Two airlines are making big bets on biofuels, with United Airlines today launching the first U.S. commercial flight with an algae-based biofuel, and Alaska Air committing to purchase airplane fuel that partially uses old cooking oil.
by Marc Gunther
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Although Chevy has sold only 600 of its highly anticipated hybrid-electric vehicles so far this year -- compared to 70,000 Silverado pickups, for example -- Mike Robinson says the Volt's future is bright.
by Marc Gunther
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An employee-led competition at a Kimberly-Clark facility in Wisconsin that urges coworkers to cycle to work -- even in snowy, below-freezing weather -- is a sure sign that a change in commute habits is underfoot.
by Marc Gunther
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It's hard to tell the contenders from the pretenders in the biofuels industry, but in what it claims is the largest privately funded biofuels program in the world, Codexis is turning no-value biomass into high-value sugar that can be transformed into ethanol.
by Marc Gunther
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When was the last time a US-based startup broke into the automobile industry? The smart money is betting on privately held CODA to succeed with its all-electric cars and battery systems.
by Marc Gunther
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Mike Iden has spent a lot of time at Union Pacific working on making locomotives more efficient as well as reducing their emissions, including developing new low-emission engines and redesigning containers to reduce drag.
by Marc Gunther
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Startup company Streetline has developed a way to help drivers reduce their endless circling for parking spaces and help cities bring in more revenue from parking meters.
by Marc Gunther
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The arrival of the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt in just a few months could become a watershed moment for the auto industry, as well as for the environmental movement. Unlike the Prius, the Leaf and Volt are not aimed at the early-adopter, eco-conscious, well-to-do niche buyers. They are being built for the mass market.
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by Marc Gunther
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Although the environmental benefits of rail power that Union Pacific touts are significant, the company is also a big customer of the coal-mining industry and is opposing climate legislation in Washington.
by Marc Gunther
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Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has a 10 percent stake in the Chinese automaker, whose initials have come to mean "Build Your Dreams," and BYD has big dreams for not just leading the EV market, but the solar power market as well.
by Marc Gunther
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The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact.
by Marc Gunther
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No offense to those working hard to bring wind, solar or geothermal energy to scale, or to people who are jazzed about energy efficiency, but Marc Gunther is going to end his blogging for 2009 by saying that he is really excited about electric cars.
by Marc Gunther
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Better Place CEO Shai Agassi is aiming high in his goals to bring affordable, zero-emission, plug-in electric vehicles to the masses; although skeptics think it's more talk than action, there seems to be plenty of action taking place.
by Marc Gunther
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The other day, I took a spin around your nation’s capital in what is being touted as the first affordable electric car that will find its way onto America’s roads: It’s the Coda.
by Marc Gunther
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With their neck-and-neck scores in Newsweek's new green rankings, the two shipping companies' ongoing rivalry continues to heat up.
by Marc Gunther