PV Market Breaks Record for Inverter Shipments
Solar inverter shipments reached 4.9 gigawatts (GW) in the second quarter of 2010, growing by 284 percent, according to a report from IMS Research. The market researcher says more than half of those...
View ArticleUS Chamber Sues EPA to Challenge GHG Endangerment Finding
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday filed a lawsuit that challenges EPA’s rejection of its petition for reconsideration of the agency’s 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases threaten...
View ArticleKraft Sustainability VP Discusses Corporate Sustainability
Steve Yucknut, vice president of sustainability at Kraft Foods recently spoke at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The discussion on sustainability at a food company is part of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Responsibility: Today’s Business Megatrend
The Gulf oil spill has captured the attention of millions around the world, stimulating discussions about the accountability every business carries to the customers, employees, and communities it...
View ArticleRoundup – REC Solar, MIT, Lake Champlain Chocolates
Lake Champlain Chocolates Opens LEED-Certified Packaging & Distribution Facility Efficient Energy Clean-power projects turn landfills’ methane into electricity Los Angeles Times EU Carbon Permits...
View ArticleColleges Add Solar Power
From the east to the west coast, colleges and universities are either adding or expanding their solar power portfolios, helping them to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. A few of the latest...
View ArticleCertainTeed Plant Cuts Water Use by 35%
CertainTeed’s manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Kansas, has reduced its water use by more than 35 percent in 2009. The facility, which produces fiberglass insulation, made adjustments to spray...
View ArticleLighting Retrofits to Cut DHL’s Utility Costs 50%, CO2 Emissions 52%
DHL has launched a Lighting Retrofit Program at its Global Forwarding unit in the Americas region to help the company improve CO2 efficiency five percent by the end of 2010. The program will initially...
View ArticleWind Turbines Slated for New York
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey hopes to have five wind towers, each more than 280 feet tall, operating on the west side of New York Harbor within three years, while the Department of...
View ArticleSan Francisco Launches ‘Green’ Products Website
San Francisco’s Environment Department has launched a “green” products Website for businesses and consumers who concerned about toxics and chemicals used in everyday products such as cleaning,...
View ArticleAudit Finds Only 8% of U.S. Stimulus Funds for Energy Efficiency Spent
Only about 8.4 percent of the $3.2 billion that Congress voted in February as part of an economic stimulus package to provide energy and conservation block grants to states and cities has been spent by...
View ArticleUS Green Data Center Market To Hit $13.81 Billion By 2015
From 2010 to 2015, the U.S. green data center market is projected to increase from $3.82 billion to $13.81 billion, according to the latest issue of EL Insights. This represents a compound annual...
View ArticleEPA, DOT Submit Draft Rules to Curb Carbon Emissions from Heavy Trucks
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Dept. of Transportation sent draft rules to the White House that would for the first time cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from heavy...
View ArticleCap and Trade Makes a Comeback
Many of us thought that earlier this year we saw the end of cap and trade. But with the oil disaster, cap and trade is poised to make a big comeback. But is emissions trading the answer or just a...
View ArticleRoundup – Bayer, Vecor, U.S. Navy
Bayer Agrees to Terminate All Uses of Aldicarb EPA Vecor Recycles Waste From Coal Plants Into Building Materials The Wall Street Journal Y. Hata and Co. to install photovoltaic power generation system...
View ArticleBecker Underwood Buys RECs to Offset 100% of Electricity Use
Becker Underwood plans to reduce its carbon footprint by offsetting 100 percent of its electricity use by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs) that fund wind farm development. The producer of...
View ArticleBNY Mellon Data Center Earns Energy Star Designation
BNY Mellon’s Northpointe Data Center in Pennsylvania was awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star designation. Northpointe is one of the first data centers listed in the...
View ArticleTesting Completed for new GHG Protocol Standards
More than sixty corporations, which began measuring the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their products and supply chains in January by testing a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse...
View ArticleOKI Data Cuts CO2 Emissions 17% at Manufacturing Facility
OKI Data’s European manufacturing facility, OKI (UK) Ltd., has reduced its electricity use by roughly 600k kWh, which is equivalent to 17 percent of the electricity consumed in 2007, thanks to a number...
View ArticleSunny Delight Sustainability Report: Cuts Carbon Emissions nearly 17% since 2007
The Sunny Delight Beverages Co. (SDBC) has decreased carbon emissions (from direct and indirect sources) nearly 17 percent since 2007, reducing the company’s annual emissions by more than 17 million...
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