Safeway Inc. has announced that it will purchase 100% renewable energy to power the company's 270 fuel stations in the United States, its 15 stores in San Francisco, and the Safeway corporate campuses in Pleasanton and Walnut Creek, Calif.
PrAna, an outdoor apparel manufacturer, is providing 250 of its retailers with renewable wind energy certificates equivalent to the electricity their stores consume.
A new Illinois law will require state and local governments, school districts, universities, community colleges, and mass transit agencies to fuel their diesel vehicles with 2% biodiesel.
The Holland, Inc., owner of Burgerville and Noodlin' restaurants throughout Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington, has committed to use renewable wind power to provide 100% of its electricity needs.
Everyone in the trucking industry is talking -- make that complaining -- about rising diesel costs. Cross Creek Trucking owner Mike DeSimone says he's doing something about it.
Governor Schwarzenegger's Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen on Saturday touted a California brewery's conversion to using hydrogen fuel cells to make its beer, as an example of industry working with the environment to protect the Sierra Nevada.
Through an organized emission-reduction program, Seattle City Light is on pace this year to become the first utility in the nation to achieve carbon neutrality. The electric utility plans to get there with two new programs: one gives customers more choices about where their energy comes from; the other curbs emissions from cruise ships docked in Elliott Bay. By Michael Burnham
The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation requiring engine manufacturers to install on-board diagnostic systems on heavy duty engines beginning in 2010.
Through an organized emission-reduction program, Seattle City Light is on pace this year to become the first utility in the nation to ahieve carbon-neutrality. The electric utility plans to get there with two new programs: one gives customers more choices about where their energy comes from; the other curbs emissions from cruise ships docked in Elliott Bay. By Michael Burnham