Environmental Resources

CALGARY, ALBERTA – Suncor Energy Inc. and EHN’s subsidiary NAR, announced today they are seeking approval from the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board to construct a $48-million, 30-megawatt wind power project. The project, proposed to be located about six kilometres w...

MIDLAND, TX - A shareholder resolution requesting that ChevronTexaco adopt and report on a plan to invest in renewable energy received a record 32 percent of the vote today, up from 9.6% support for a similar global warming resolution voted on at Chevron in 2001. The...

CALGARY - Canadian Oil Sands Trust (the "Trust") today announced that the Syncrude Joint Venture ("Syncrude") is planning to invest an additional $400 million, or approximately $127 million net to the Trust, in an emission reduction program that is expected to signifi...

Oak Brook, IL. McDonald's Corporation today announced the membership of its newly created Global Advisory Council on Healthy Lifestyles. The Advisory Council is comprised of experts in the areas of fitness, nutrition and active lifestyles. This independent group will ...

EMERYVILLE, CA — Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) today announced that it has released its pilot standard for environmentally preferable carpet. The standard, titled “Standard Specification for the Evaluation and Certification of Environmentally Preferable Carpe...

WASHINGTON, DC - FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX), in concert with Environmental Defense and Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN), introduced a low-emission, hybrid electric powered delivery vehicle that could become a standard medium-duty delivery truck ...

STANFORD, CA -- It's not enough to set up hundreds of turbines at a blustery site to create a "wind farm" and hope that consistent gusts will generate electricity. It's necessary to know where fast winds blow and how best to harness them since the amount of power gene...

LONDON - A project to bring much-needed energy to remote Himalayan villages in India using an army of 'barefoot engineers', has won the 2003 St Andrews Prize for the Environment.

The programme trains illiterate and semi-illiterate...

LOS ANGELES, CA – The California Fuel Cell Partnership today concluded its 2003 “Rally Thru The Valley,” a caravan of advanced fuel cell vehicles. The Road Rally traveled through the State’s Central Valley, a region plagued by poor air quality, to validate the potent...

DALLAS,TX - A global warming proxy resolution that attracted 24 percent of shareholder support today at TXU Corporation (NYSE: TXU) is a "major victory" for religious institutional investor members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which is ...