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The landmark memorandum of understanding identified a variety of projects that can help the dairy industry achieve those greenhouse gas reduction goals and increase its financial and environmental sustainability.
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Everybody’s got one, but some years even our loved ones — not to mention our bosses — fail to ask. But we did.
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The banking giant's new commercial banking group focused on clean technology firms will add to the $600 million the company has already dedicated to the market.
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In releasing its first-ever sustainability data, the U.S. Postal Service shows that it has cut total energy use by 9 percent in the past three years, while making strides in e-waste recycling and energy intensity.
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Between fiscal years 2007 and 2009, P&G reduced its waste disposal by 30 percent, energy use by 11 percent, greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent, and water consumption by 13 percent, according to its latest sustainability report titled, "Designed to Matter."
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Utility company <a href='http://www.nationalgridus.com/'>National Grid</a> began sending energy report cards to 50,000 of its Boston area customers this week, hoping their ability to compare consumption with their peers will drive down energy use.
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Federal agencies must set 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals within 90 days and devise a string of action plans to size up and soften their environmental impacts, President Barack Obama ordered this week.
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Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels. When normalized against sales, which have grown since 2006, the decline in the company’s coal and oil use is even greater: a 35 percent reduction.
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Verizon Wireless takes heat for its sponsorship of a rally backed by coal interests. This item, news of Japan's $21B project for a giant solar-power generator in space and more are featured in this week's roundup.
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A new report from the Sustainable Enterprise Institute finds that of the companies in the Russell 1000 index that have anything approaching a sustainability policy, less than 10 percent include policies to make them effective.
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The Delhaize Group, the Belgium-based international grocery chain that operates Food Lion and Hannaford supermarkets in the U.S., is disclosing its global carbon footprint and developing further plans to lighten its impact on the environment.
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The bottling, marketing and distribution arm of the beverage giant has set a goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent before 2020, as well as to recover 100 percent of its bottles for recycling.
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The world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases will launch a research center to explore low-carbon technologies for green buildings, clean cars and carbon capture and storage.
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IBM made strides in reducing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, material sent to landfill and hazardous waste, according to the company's latest corporate responsibility report.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. has enlisted another group of its portfolio companies to participate in a year-old partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund through efforts that are designed to help businesses track and improve their environmental performance.
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The carbon content of transportation fuels sold in California must be reduced 10 percent by 2020 under rules set by state regulators that also call for counting emissions generated by the business of producing and delivering fuel of all types to consumers in the Golden State.