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A dozen companies have confirmed their commitment to go beyond corporate philanthropy to find sustainable models that are good for business as well as development
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Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Owens joined a diverse group of businesses and environmental organizations to call on U.S. policymakers to establish a mandatory emissions reduction program to address climate change.
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PG&E Corporation has become the first California utility company, and one of only 15 Fortune 500 companies, selected to join Ceres, a leading national coalition of investment funds, environmental organizations, and other public interest groups working with companies to tackle environmental and social challenges such as climate change.
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A new report evaluating air pollution trends among the 100 largest electric power producers in the U.S. shows that emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have fallen markedly in recent years, but carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased and will likely spike in coming years.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company has submitted a proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a new and innovative environmental program that will allow interested customers to contribute toward a cleaner California.
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The United States has not joined the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gases, but the pact nevertheless is boosting sales for American companies that market 'clean' energy technologies.
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A small energy company in Ann Arbor has come up with a new way to generate electricity from some very unusual fuels: waste gases from landfills, sewage treatment plants and even auto assembly plants.
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A trio of industries that provide more than their fair share of environmental headaches have become willing guinea pigs as they trial a new carrot and stick approach to cleaning up their act.
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The U.K. Business Council for Sustainable Energy and eight energy companies have joined Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace to demand the British government put its promises on climate change into action.
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Fifteen leading U.S. investors have sent letters to 43 of the country's 50 largest investor-owned greenhouse gas emitters in the power industry, requesting that they report within a year how future GHG limits will affect their financial bottom lines.
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Spanish utility ENDESA has inked a deal with engineering firm Inerco to implement new technological solutions aimed at reducing the environmental impact and saving energy at the company's power plants.
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ALBANY -- State officials brought the fight for clean air from the Midwest to New York's back yard, announcing a landmark agreement with six upstate power plants to remove the equivalent of 2.5 million cars' worth of pollution from their smokestacks.
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The report says that Cinergy supports a GHG management program that would use market-based cap and trade principles, allow compliance flexibility with reforestation and other sequestration projects, incorporate bi-lateral or regional international carbon trading, and promote public/private partnerships in research and development.
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The regional utility's current challenge, says CEO Jim Rogers, to combine pragmatic realism with an aggressive plan for the future to stay on top of its game. By Katie Sosnowchik with Joseph Fiksel
by Emily Rabin
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Cinergy Corp. has selected the first series of projects in its voluntary program of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% below 2000 levels between 2010 and 2012.
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FuelCell Energy is donating emissions credits equivalent to 1,700 pounds of nitrogen oxide (NOx) reductions and 4800 pounds of sulfur oxides (SOx) and other emissions reductions that resulted from 1170 megawatt hours of power generated at the company's Danbury and Torrington, Conn. locations.
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Oki Electric Industrial Co. of Japan and the companies in its group are promoting a modal shift from truck transportation to rail transportation to reduce environmental impacts from their distribution operations.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been recognized with the Climate Action Champion Award by the California Climate Action Registry for demonstrating exemplary leadership in addressing climate change in California.
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In what is thought to be a first-of-its-kind move within the energy sector, Calpine's Chairman and CEO Peter Cartwright has announced plans to address global warming by voluntarily limiting the company's investments to only low carbon power generation.
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Five electric power companies from across the U.S. have answered a challenge from World Wildlife Fund to become the first U.S. power companies to support a mandatory cap on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions and confirm their commitment to clean energy.
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San Diego Gas and Electric and The Southern California Gas Company have elected to implement a companywide data management system for tracking and reporting on greenhouse gases.
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Setting an initial greenhouse gas reduction goal of 4% by 2006, AEP has become the 50th member of U.S. EPA's Climate Leaders program.
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FPL Group has said it will voluntarily reduce its greenhouse gas emissions rate by 18% by the end of 2008 under the U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders program.
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The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have signed an agreement to work voluntarily toward meeting the Bush administration's goal of a voluntary 18% reduction in the intensity of greenhouse gases in the U.S. by 2012.
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Cinergy Corp., the owner of U.S. Midwest utilities, has announced it will spend $21 million to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases by an average of 5%.