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Sustainability professor Gail Whiteman describes how the warming Arctic is an “economic time-bomb” -- and how business should react.
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The new rules are the third set of strict efficiency and emissions standards put in place by the Obama Administration to cover cars, light-duty trucks, and now heavy-duty vehicles.
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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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Businesses and policymakers are working to clear obstacles to EV adoption, but the Rocky Mountain Institute believes one game-changing solution has received little attention: Lightweighting could be a key to widespread electrification of the U.S. personal vehicle fleet .<br />
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Medium-duty trucks, a mainstay for American fleets, produce more than 80 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Environmental Defense Fund and PHH Arval are now offering fleet managers a framework for reducing emissions from the vehicles.
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It is becoming increasingly common for companies to measure and report the water they consume within their four walls. Yet they rarely track all the water used to make the electricity powering their operations. It's called the forgotten water footprint, and it's about to get a lot more attention.
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The year 2009 was a terrible year for Detroit, the worst in three decades. Americans bought 10.4 million cars -- 21 percent fewer than in 2008 and a whopping 40 percent fewer than the 17 million or so cars and light trucks sold, on average, in the early 2000s.
by Marc Gunther
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Eight big-name airlines such as Southwest, United and American will begin fueling ground service equipment at the Los Angeles International Airport with synthetic biodiesel in 2012.