Environmental Resources

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), DaimlerChrysler and UPS (NYSE:UPS), gathered here at the government's premier fuel emissions laboratory, today announced a collaborative project in which UPS will operate package deliv...

NICE, FRANCE - The World Semiconductor Council (WSC) met today for its seventh annual meeting and issued strong recommendations on a broad range of policy objectives of importance to the global semiconductor industry. The WSC is the pre-eminent organization representi...

SEATTLE; WA – The Business and Industry Resource Venture announced today that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is one of 11 recipients of the 2003 BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Awards. The awards program recognizes the Company’s energy conserva...

HOUSTON, TX -- The Port of Houston Authority (PHA) has been named the government category winner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's 2003 Texas Environmental Excellence Awards for its innovative use of dredged material from the Houston Ship Channel wide...

SEATTLE, WA - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) is pleased to announce that Mary Williams was presented with the Individual Green Globe Award by the Rainforest Alliance on Wednesday, May 14 in New York City. Williams recently retired as the senior vice president...