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Insurers Aviva and Aegon landed at the top of the heap of Europe's 300 largest companies for their low levels of publicly-reported greenhouse gas emissions, relative to their revenue. Rounding out the bottom were KGHM, a Polish mining company, and Sodexo, a food services and management company.
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Air emissions have been on the decline for the electric power company since 1990, a time period during which its generation fleet has grown 249 percent.
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A measure that would have stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate emissions failed in the U.S. Senate by 10 votes.
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The nonprofit took its mission a step further this week with the unveiling of a new effort that asks companies to go beyond mere climate change disclosure and take action.
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A ruling last week finalizes a tentative decision in lat January that concluded that the state violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved a Scoping Plan to carry out the state's climate change law.
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Why your company will be an energy company, no matter what you do.
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In its annual Environment poll, Gallup found that 51% of Americans worry a fair amount or great deal about climate change, just one percentage point higher than the poll's lowest mark in 1997.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 Tuesday on a 34-19 vote, with all Republicans and three Democrats in support.
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ICT sector to get its own guidance for calculating the carbon footprint of its products and services.
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Climate-friendly policies in places like China and Germany helped to push clean energy investment to record levels in 2010, according to Deutsche Bank, whose recent white paper offers a framework to help asset managers understand and manage climate change risks.
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A U.K. nonprofit has ranked the country's 100 largest companies on greenhouse gas intensity and transparency, putting insurance companies Amlin and Aviva at the top of the heap. Rounding out the bottom are cruise operator Carnival and Randgold Resources, a gold mining company disputing the findings.
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The two companies are making headlines this week for their efforts to improve fuel efficiency and the bottom lines.
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The GOP plan would reduce the agency's budget by $3 billion, while its research-driven Global Change program would also see about a 30 percent hit. Other agencies working on energy or climate-related matters would also see their funding shrivel up, including the Department of Energy, Department of Energy, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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A California judge has tentatively ruled that the state's air board didn't comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) when it adopted a plan to carry out the state's climate change laws.
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Laws introduced in California over the last 20 years for cleaner fuels and diesel truck engines has had an immediate impact on addressing black carbon, leading to an improvement of the state's air quality and climate benefits.
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Some companies claimed some types of data to be collected under the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program was sensitive business information that threatened their competitiveness if disclosed publicly.
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The utility giant revealed today it would invest nearly $5 billion through 2015 on a range of clean energy and efficiency projects as part of a broader effort and strategy dubbed Exelon 2020, which revolves around "reducing, offsetting or displacing" 15.7 million metric tons of emissions annually by 2020.
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The guidance is designed to help states identify cost-effective ways of reducing and minimizing emissions at new or upgraded carbon-intensive facilities seeking air permits, such as power plants, cement kilns and refineries.The day before, the egency finalized greenhouse gas reporting requirements for the petroleum and natural gas sectors.
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The U.K. government released carbon accounting guidance last year to help organizations measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, but just one in 10 companies in a recent survey is actually using it.
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The Volvo Group, whose brands include Mack Trucks, Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and UD Trucks, has become the world's first vehicle manufacturer to join the WWF Climate Leaders program. Volvo truck companies have vowed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produced over the lifetime of the trucks they manufacture through 2014 by 13 million tons.
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California voters defeated a ballot measure Tuesday that would have suspended the state's climate change law until the unemployment fell below 5.5 percent for a year.
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Climate change is a top concern globally, but the worry is even more acute in developing countries, which are also more optimistic that it can be prevented, according to the latest Climate Confidence Monitor from HSBC.
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SAP Ag began reporting sustainability data on a quarterly basis earlier this year, giving the company better visibility into its performance and the chance to correct its course in order to meet its goals. Its third quarter results released Wednesday revealed the company will need to limit unneccessary air travel in the last quarter of 2010 -- its busiest time of the year -- in order to meet its annual climate goal.
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The Obama administration today took the wraps off its proposed national standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency for heavy duty trucks and buses -- the first measures for such vehicles in the U.S.
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The EPA's Green Power Leadership Awards, to be handed out on Wednesday night, recognize businesses and municipalities for supporting the growth of renewable energy in the U.S.