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Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Says Products, Strategy Will Lead Industry
Boeing (NYSE: BA) Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh said the company is poised for future growth as it prepares to deliver the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8, increases production rates to respond to strong customer demand and develops the market-leading technology and products of the future. "Airlines today worry about their environmental footprint, fuel efficiency and sustained ...
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Sprint Recognized as EPA’s 2015 Climate Leader for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management
Sprint Corporation, headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., has received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2015 Climate Leadership Award for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management – Goal Achievement. The Climate Leadership Award recipients demonstrate how innovative actions to combat climate change lead to smart business decisions. Sixteen organizations and one individual ...
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How to take climate change action out of political slow lane
While governments get their act together on climate change, businesses can step into the breach by thinking energy efficiency first, says Michael Dent, Managing Director of Inprova Energy. The Paris Climate Change Agreement has been bolstered by news that the USA and China (the two biggest economies who together account for some 38% of global emissions) will formally ratify the accord. Brazil, ...
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Scotland’s climate change targets are ambitious but achievable with new policies
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today advised the Scottish Government that the climate change targets set out in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act are ambitious, but would be achievable following a tightening of the EU framework in response to a global deal to cut emissions. Delivering the targets will require that steps are taken to significantly strengthen and to add to existing policies ...
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NSTAR Selects World Energy Solutions for Direct Install Program
World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES), a leading energy management services firm, today announced it has been selected by NSTAR (NYSE: NST), the largest Massachusetts-based, investor-owned electric and gas utility, as an approved contractor within its Direct Install Program. This program is designed to help businesses with average monthly demand of 300 kW or less save money on energy ...
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EPA Energy Star `Change A Light` bus tour to hold two events this week in Chicago
CHICAGO (Oct. 10, 2007) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 10-city national Energy Star 'Change A Light' bus tour has scheduled events this week at an elementary school on the north side of Chicago and at Navy Pier. The 5,000-mile tour started Oct. 3 outside Disneyland in Los Angeles and will end Oct. 23 in New York City. 'The bus tour promotes energy-efficient lighting as an easy, ...
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Ernst & Young LLP`s headquarters goes green with lighting retrofit project
Ernst & Young LLP today announced completion of a lighting retrofit project in its US headquarters in New York City. The project's installation of energy-efficient lighting – one of New York City's largest lighting retrofits – will cut the building's annual energy use by approximately 2.9 million kilowatt-hours and reduce its CO2 emissions by approximately 2 million pounds. ...
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Northeast States Renew Call for Power Plant Emissions Cuts
Reducing power plant emissions achieves fewer deaths, fewer respiratory and heart-related hospital admissions and emergency room visits, decreases in school absences, and higher worker productivity, a new study by the Ozone Transport Commission, OTC, has found. With these findings in mind, the OTC, an organization of 12 northeastern and mid-Atlantic states plus the District of Columbia ...
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Etisalat and Pacific Controls to Offer ICT Based M2M Technology for Sustainable Development Across Middle East, Africa and Asia
Etisalat Group and Pacific Controls, the leading global automation company, today announced an agreement to jointly offer unique Machine-to-Machine based (M2M Technology) Sustainable Development applications and support to clients across Etisalat's footprint. This will bring environmentally beneficial, green IT to the Middle East, Africa and Asia covering fifteen countries in total. The new ...
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Shrinking New York City`s carbon footprint
St. Mary's Recreation Center in the Bronx was the first indoor recreation facility to open in New York City in 1951. Now the aging building is about to receive energy-saving retrofits to fix outdated heating and cooling systems, insufficient ventilation, and windows and doors that leak heat in the winter and cooled air in the summer. The New York City Parks Department facility is just one of the ...
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