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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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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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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 announced it will redesign its label for new cars to make it easier for consumers to buy the cleanest, most fuel efficient models. But in a recent poll, the two label designs proposed by the EPA confused consumers, who cared more about gas mileage and fuel costs than the new environmental information the EPA now wants to include.
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Researchers estimate existing coalmines around the world will reach peak production as early as next year, with peak production levels cut in half by the turn of the century.
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A blend of efforts targeting its lighting, air conditioning and servers helped Oki Data's European manufacturing facility trim greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent in 2009, relative to 2007 levels.
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A blend of efforts targeting its lighting, air conditioning and servers helped Oki Data's European manufacturing facility trim greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent in 2009, relative to 2007 levels.
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Butte College in Northern California will begin generating more renewable energy next year than it uses, saving the school an estimated $150 million over the next 30 years.
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A just-completed test of new technology for smoother landings could play a big role in cutting the industry's carbon footprint.
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A company that makes billions of frozen food trays every year has tapped FirstCarbon's ghgTrack software to help it measure and manage its carbon footprint.
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Data is beginning to roll in for the pilot test of an eagerly anticipated new standard for supply chain greenhouse gas accounting from the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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Innovation, costs, and regulation now drive leading firms to increasingly embrace carbon management and sustainability, but within the next few years, companies will move in greater numbers from a tactical to strategic approach as factors such as emissions and resource scarcity take on greater importance in C-suite decisionmaking.
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Rather than waiting for regulatory conditions to solidify, leading companies are taking their cues from the market by investing in climate change initiatives, reporting on their performance and leaning on their supply chains to reduce emissions, according to a new survey of executives from Ernst & Young.
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A month after the federal government finalized fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for passenger and light-duty vehicles, President Barack Obama announced plans to set 2025 rules and create first-ever standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
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Carbon management software firm Enviance unveiled a new product Tuesday to help companies comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting rules.
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More than 50 corporations are measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and entire supply chains with two new standards from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.<br />
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McDonald's U.K. is starting a three-year investigation into its cows' methane emissions and the best methods for lowering their impacts.<br />
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One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
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Former foes Staples Inc. and the nonprofit Dogwood Alliance are joining forces for a pilot project meant to give landowners in the southern U.S. the chance to earn money by conserving their forests and changing their management practices.
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The company also launched a new contract service to calculate the carbon footprint of individual customers' shipping activities.
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The rule will cover about 14,000 power plants, refineries and factories that produce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, requiring them to install the most up-to-date pollution control devices.
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A private-public partnership led by the Institute for Sustainable Communities will open a second academy in China that will teach factory managers to make their supply chains less carbon-intensive.
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A combination of data center energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012.
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Companies need to understand how looming carbon costs will impact their future profitability compared to their competitors in order to gauge how much can be passed on to customers without sacrificing market share, according to a new report from research firm Trucost and standards nonprofit NSF International.
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In its 2008 corporate sustainability report, UPS sets a hard target for emissions reductions in what it says is the world's ninth-largest airline, and lays out how a steady focus on efficiency is trimming the company's footprint.