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The latest industry rankings from Tomorrow's Value Rating looks at fossil fuel firms and finds that, despite solid leadership in innovation, the 10 largest companies are failing to take action on...
At a much-buzzed event yesterday on eBay's campus, Bloom Energy unveiled its Energy Server, fuel cell generators that could change the shape of how companies and municipalities get their energy....
By most measures, wind energy has been a great business lately, but its supporters need to be honest about costs as well as the benefits, since both are substantial. ...
Progress Energy Carolinas will shutter a third of its coal-fired power plant fleet that lack emissions control scrubbers by late 2017. ...
Alstom, We Energies and The Electric Power Research Institute have demonstrated the feasibility of using chilled ammonia to capture 90 percent of flue stream carbon dioxide produced by a coal-...
In the latest sign that China takes the threat of global warming seriously, Chinese business executives with close ties to the government have launched a voluntary market in Beijing to buy and...
The energy sector has to failed wake up to the threat posed by extreme weather, water shortages and rising temperatures, according to a new report. ...
This report from Rebecca L. Grant of the Lexington Institute explores how the power of national policy and commercial ingenuity can smooth the way for smart grid, which will not just transmit...
Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Owens joined a diverse group of businesses and environmental organizations to call on U.S. policymakers to establish a mandatory emissions reduction program...
PG&E Corporation has become the first California utility company, and one of only 15 Fortune 500 companies, selected to join Ceres, a leading national coalition of investment funds,...
A new report evaluating air pollution trends among the 100 largest electric power producers in the U.S. shows that emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have fallen markedly...
Pacific Gas and Electric Company has submitted a proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a new and innovative environmental program that will allow interested customers...
The United States has not joined the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gases, but the pact nevertheless is boosting sales for American companies that market "clean" energy technologies. ...
A small energy company in Ann Arbor has come up with a new way to generate electricity from some very unusual fuels: waste gases from landfills, sewage treatment plants and even auto assembly...
The U.K. Business Council for Sustainable Energy and eight energy companies have joined Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace to demand the British government put its promises on climate change into...
Fifteen leading U.S. investors have sent letters to 43 of the country's 50 largest investor-owned greenhouse gas emitters in the power industry, requesting that they report within a year how...
Spanish utility ENDESA has inked a deal with engineering firm Inerco to implement new technological solutions aimed at reducing the environmental impact and saving energy at the company's power...
ALBANY -- State officials brought the fight for clean air from the Midwest to New York's back yard, announcing a landmark agreement with six upstate power plants to remove the equivalent of 2.5...
The regional utility's current challenge, says CEO Jim Rogers, to combine pragmatic realism with an aggressive plan for the future to stay on top of its game. By Katie Sosnowchik with Joseph...
Cinergy Corp. has selected the first series of projects in its voluntary program of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% below 2000 levels between 2010 and 2012. ...
In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.
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