Business
Earth Day Celebration Packs the National Mall
WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2015 (ENS) – The Global Poverty Project and Earth Day Network hosted Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day on the National Mall on Saturday. Heads [...]
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Business Councils Help Houston Build for Energy Efficiency
HOUSTON, Texas, March 4, 2015 (ENS) – An action plan designed to improve the market competitiveness of Houston’s buildings and attract energy efficiency investments was released today by [...]
Business
Anadarko Pays Record $5.15 Billion Environmental Settlement
WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2015 (ENS) – Anadarko Petroleum Corp. today paid a record $5.15 billion settlement to the U.S. government and others – the largest environmental enforcement [...]
Business
Retail Investors Snap Up World Bank Green Growth Bonds
WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2015 (ENS) – The first equity index-linked World Bank Green Bond available to retail investors just closed, and it was a big hit, raising [...]
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U.S. Congress Blocks World Bank Move to Slash Safeguards
WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2015 (ENS) – Environmental and social justice groups in the United States and around the world are applauding a provision of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations [...]
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Green Investors Flunk Fracking Industry on Impact Management
BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 11, 2014 (ENS) – ExxonMobil, Chevron, and WPX Energy are ranked among the worst fracking companies in a new report by a coalition of green [...]
Business
Massey Coal Executive Indicted for Fatal Mine Explosion
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, November 15, 2014 (ENS) – Don Blankenship, former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, was indicted Thursday on charges of conspiring to violate federal mine [...]
Business
Global Market for Conservation Investing Hits $23 Billion
ARLINGTON, Virginia, November 7, 2014 (ENS) – The first survey of conservation investing reveals a fast-growing market that totaled $23 billion in the five-year period from 2009-2013. Private [...]
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Kazakhstan Plans Electromobility, Future Energy Expo 2017
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 27, 2014 (ENS) – The Kazakhstan government would like to explore collaborating with Japan to manufacture hybrid and electric vehicles, Prime Minister Karim Massimov said this [...]
Business
187 Companies Make ‘The A List’ for Climate Performance
LONDON, UK, October 20, 2014 (ENS) – The new “A List” of leading climate performance businesses from around the world, released Friday by the Climate Disclosure Project, numbers [...]
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Nevada Site Selected for Tesla-Panasonic Battery Gigafactory
CARSON CITY, Nevada, September 5, 2014 (ENS) – Elon Musk, chairman and CEO of electric automaker Tesla Motors, and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced Thursday that Nevada has [...]
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China Must Lift Trade Restrictions on Rare Earth Elements
GENEVA, Switzerland, August 13, 2014 (ENS) – In a decision that affects automakers around the world, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, has ruled that [...]
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Tesla, Panasonic to Build ‘Gigafactory’ for Electric Car Batteries
PALO ALTO, California, August 4, 2014 (ENS) – Electric car batteries are about to get cheaper and more abundant. Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors signed an agreement Thursday [...]
Business
Indore Becomes Demonstration City for Sustainable Mobility
INDORE, India, July 28, 2014 (ENS) – City of Indore officials Friday agreed to work with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to implement sustainable mobility solutions [...]
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Big Companies Sign Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles
NEW YORK, New York, July 21, 2014 (ENS) – To increase their access to cost-competitive renewable energy, 12 large corporations have signed the Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles to [...]
Business
Pepsi, Coke Pledge to Respect Land, Fisheries, Forest Rights
ROME, Italy, April 25, 2014 (ENS) – The two largest beverage companies in the world have pledged to conduct their businesses in ways that promote secure ownership rights [...]
Business
Trillions in Public Spending Will Shift to Greener Purchases
NEW YORK, New York, April 1, 2014 (ENS) – A new global program was launched today that aims to harness the trillions of dollars that governments spend each [...]
Air/Climate
ExxonMobil Agrees to Report Carbon Stranded Asset Risk
NEW YORK, New York, March 24, 2014 (ENS) – In response to a shareholder resolution, ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. energy company, for the first time has agreed to [...]
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CureVac Wins EU’s €2 Million Vaccine Innovation Prize
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 10, 2014 (ENS) – German biopharmaceutical company CureVac GmbH has won the European Union’s first innovation inducement prize for technology producing vaccines that are stable [...]
Business
U.S. EPA Honors Corporations for Cutting Greenhouse Gases
SAN DIEGO, California, February 25, 2014 (ENS) – Corporations as different as aerospace giant Boeing, Caesars Entertainment with its hotels and casinos, the networking equipment company Cisco Systems, Fruit [...]