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Google Partners with Eight Utilities in Smart Meter Projects to Track Energy Use Online
Author: GreenerBuildings
Eight utilities in the U.S., Canada and India are teaming up with Google in smart meter projects that will enable customers to monitor their energy use online and better manage their power consumption, the Internet giant announced. [The companies are...
- Related in-depth areas: Environment - An introduction
- Related companies: Google (part of Alphabet) Reliance ADA Reliance Energy (part of Reliance ADA) TXU
[PDF] Rebuilding Corporate Leadership: How Directors Can Link Long-Term Performance with Public Goals
Author: Research & Policy Committee of Committee for Economic Development [USA]
Directors...should widen the purview of their deliberations to give weight to societal issues... The board should insist that management report regularly...on...social performance... Directors should recognize the value of corporate communication with...
- Related companies: American Electric Power Apple Boeing BP Carlyle Group Cisco Systems De Beers (part of Anglo American) DuPont ExxonMobil Gap General Electric Goldman Sachs Google (part of Alphabet) HP (Hewlett-Packard) IBM Intel Kimberly-Clark Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) Microsoft Nike Reynolds American TPG (Texas Pacific) TXU Walmart Yahoo! (part of Verizon)
Green Stakeholders: Pesky Activists or Productive Allies?
Author: Judith Samuelson, Aspen Institute, in Harvard Business Review
Executives who still think of environmental stakeholders as pesky activists that can easily be ignored are in for a rude awakening. Today, it's big investors -- pension funds, state controllers, institutional investors, and even their investment...
- Related companies: Citigroup Clorox Coca-Cola Home Depot McDonald's TXU Walmart
Wall Street Shows Skepticism Over Coal - Banks Push Utilities To Plan for Impact Of Emissions Caps [USA]
Author: Jeffrey Ball with Rebecca Smith, Wall Street Journal
Three of Wall Street's biggest investment banks are set to announce today that they are imposing new environmental standards that will make it harder for companies to get financing to build coal-fired power plants in the U.S. Citigroup Inc., J.P....
Expanding the Mined [USA] [subscription required]
Author: Matthew Dalton, Wall Street Journal
U.S. coal miners sit at the crossroads of worker safety and the environment -- two major public-policy issues that pose threats to the industry as a whole, but offer opportunities for individual companies that can adapt. Increasing scrutiny of the...
50 Dirtiest U.S. Power Plants Named [USA]
Author: Environment News Service
Nevada Power's [part of Sierra Pacific Resources] Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant has a higher emission rate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than any other power plant in the United States, according to a new ranking issued today by the...
[PDF] full report: "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants"
Author: Environment Integrity Project (USA)
This report ranks America’s dirtiest power plants, based on company-reported data.
Coal's Doubters Block New Wave Of Power Plants [USA]
Author: Rebecca Smith, Wall Street Journal
From coast to coast, plans for a new generation of coal-fired power plants are falling by the wayside as states conclude that conventional coal plants are too dirty to build and the cost of cleaner plants is too high... Coal plants have come under fire...