What could have enormous impacts on global warming and U.S. business was debated this week in the U.S. Senate. Starting to be hacked out are details of proposed "Cap and Trade" legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide over the next five decades. Although the bill was defeated June 6, it...
What Is Carbon Credit?Title is MisleadingI think the title misrepresents offsets. Offsets are not an indulgence to reduce or deflect your guilt. If they are used to "clear your carbon conscience", they are used inappropriatelyRather they should be incorporated as part of an organization's overall emission reduction strategy. The emphasis...
C02 emissions trading can help lower the environmental cost of doing business – if you know how to navigate the booming $60 billion market. How It Works Emissions limits and trading rules vary country by country, so...
CANTON, Ohio -- The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) today announced it will increase prices on carbon and alloy seamless mechanical tubing by up to 15 percent, depending on the size and product specification. This price increase is effective with shipments beginning on April 1, 2008.
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- HEADWATERS INCORPORATED (NYSE:HW), today announced the formation of a strategic partnership with the Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. for the development and commercialization of carbon nanospheres, a new carbon nano-material.
ENERGY RESOURCE-9 May 2007-News Corp. Practices What It Plans to Preach by Pledging to Become 'Carbon Neutral' by 2010C2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL have determined the solid/liquid and solid/solid-phase boundaries of carbon for pressures up to 20 million Earth atmospheres and more than 10,000oK. The simulations reveal physical proper Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL have determined the...
Twenty billion dollars -- that's how serious Bank of America is about its new environmental initiative. In a press release, the chief executive of America's largest bank, Kenneth Lewis, said he sees "a tremendous opportunity to support our customers' efforts to build an environmentally sustainable economy," and the company is...
Recent pledges by some multiple retailers to make their supply chains greener has created a wake of cynicism and cries of 'green-wash!' But Wal-Mart's commitment to renewable energy and zero waste and Marks & Spencer's 200m [pounds sterling] pla Recent pledges by some multiple retailers...
Taking advantage of clients' demand for carbon neutral strategies, Simon Greenshields, managing director and global head of power at Morgan Stanley, will oversee the development of a "Carbon Bank" service. Taking advantage of clients' demand for carbon neutral strategies, Simon Greenshields, managing director...
Carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks have reportedly been developed at the University of Ca Carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable...
Byline: Elizabeth McGowan Crafting workable climate change legislation requires finding the "sweet spot'' that balances reality with necessity. That means zeroing in on scientifically gauged carbon targets without breaking the econo Byline: Elizabeth...
New York-based Merrill Lynch has taken a minority stake and provided debt financing to the Russian Carbon Fund, a Dutch company, for a deal understood to be worth $200m. The transaction will secure the US investment bank a foothold in the carbon trad New York-based Merrill...
THE MARKET for carbon black remains under pressure from prolonged high costs for oil and natural gas. Producers raised prices dramatically in February and March, and those increases have held. However, rubber consumption by the tire industry appear THE MARKET for carbon black remains...
Target Corp., under pressure from congressional Democrats, is seeking government approval to add a consumer warning to labels of meat treated with carbon monoxide to keep it looking red and fresh. Target's move follows announcements by several supermarket chains, including Safeway Inc. and Ahold NV's Giant Food and Stop &...
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