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    Avenue’s New Community Center Gets Sustainable Upgrades in Near Northside Image

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    02-18-20

    Avenue’s New Community Center Gets Sustainable Upgrades in Near Northside

     Avenue, a local nonprofit dedicated to developing affordable homes and strengthening communities, will be getting an environmentally-friendly upgrade thanks to a near $200,000 gift from 

    Southern California Edison Files 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan Image

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    02-12-20

    Southern California Edison Files 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

    Southern California Edison filed its proposed 2020-22 Wildfire Mitigation Plan with the California Public Utilities Commission. SCE’s multiyear plan builds on the progress ...

    OMV Retains Its Leadership Score in CDP Climate Change Image

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    02-10-20

    OMV Retains Its Leadership Score in CDP Climate Change

    At the end of January, CDP published the results of its latest analysis of 8,361 companies worldwide in the climate change category. OMV was awarded the ranking of “Leadership A–” for the fourth time in a row, making it one of the top 14 companies in the global oil and gas sector. In Austria, OMV...

    Chris Long’s Hometown H2O and Xylem Restore Water to Family in Need Image

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    02-06-20

    Chris Long’s Hometown H2O and Xylem Restore Water to Family in Need

    A rural Virginia family displaced from their home after their water well failed are receiving the gift of clean water today, ma...

    Ørsted Launches Programme for a Carbon Neutral Supply Chain by 2040 Image

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    02-06-20

    Ørsted Launches Programme for a Carbon Neutral Supply Chain by 2040

    February 6, 2020 - Companies will have to cut emissions faster and further across their operations and supply chains if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C by reaching net-zero emissions in 2050. Ørsted, one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies and recently named the most s...

    Foundation Awards 24 National Neighborhood Promise® Grants for 2020 Image

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    02-04-20

    Foundation Awards 24 National Neighborhood Promise® Grants for 2020

    The Republic Services Charitable Foundation announced today that it has awarded 24 National Neighborhood Promise® grants for 2020, which will fund neighborhood revitalization projects around the country in areas where Republic Services customers and employees live and work. Projects in...

    Alliant Energy Earns Top Marks in 2020 Corporate Equality Index Image

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    02-04-20

    Alliant Energy Earns Top Marks in 2020 Corporate Equality Index

    Alliant Energy’s perfect score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) reflects the company’s commitment to employees and others in the LGBTQ+ community.

    The CEI is the premier benchmarking survey and report on LGBTQ+ workplace equality, administered by ...

    Duke Energy Earns Top Marks in 2020 Corporate Equality Index Image

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    02-03-20

    Duke Energy Earns Top Marks in 2020 Corporate Equality Index

    Duke Energy has received a perfect score for the third year in a row on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking study that annually ranks companies on LGBTQ-friendly corporate practices and policies.

    Duke Energy’s score of 100% earned the company ...

    Duke Energy Renewables’ Largest Texas Solar Project Now Online Image

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    02-03-20

    Duke Energy Renewables’ Largest Texas Solar Project Now Online

    Duke Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), announced that its 100-megawatt (MW-alternating current) Lapetus Solar project in Andrews County, Texas, began commercial operation in December 2019.

    It is Duke Energy’s second solar project in commercial operation in Texas a...

    Ørsted to Become Carbon Neutral by 2025 Image

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    01-30-20

    Ørsted to Become Carbon Neutral by 2025

    Ørsted, recently ranked the most sustainable company in the world, will become carbon neutral by 2025. This will make Ørsted the first major energy company to reach net-zero emiss...

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