The consumer products company is the first of its kind to offset all of its GHG emissions through the EPA program, and buy 100 percent green power to meet its energy needs.
The Vermont utility has created its "choose2bgreen" program for residential and business customers, and the company itself will drop its carbon footprint to zero.
In the EPA's annual Green Power Challenge, New York University placed first among all individual schools for total kilowatt-hours purchased, and the Ivy Leagues are the greenest group of schools.
As part of an ambitious new plan to fight global warming, the internet giant will reduce its energy use and invest in emissions-fighting projects to make its operations carbon neutral.
An annual survey of the wind-power industry found over 2,400 megawatts of new wind power developed nationwide in the last year, with Texas and California leading the country in total watts generated.
Once considered an expensive optional addition to buying or building a home, solar panels are now coming standard on new homes in four new communities in northern California.
The U.S. industries that together account for 85 percent of the country's overall industrial energy use can greatly benefit from adopting energy-efficiency and pollution-reduction strategies, according to an extensive new report from the EPA.