News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the energy, utilities & waste industry.
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02-18-20
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
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02-12-20
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 ...
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02-10-20
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...
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02-06-20
A rural Virginia family displaced from their home after their water well failed are receiving the gift of clean water today, ma...
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02-06-20
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...
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02-04-20
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...
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02-04-20
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 ...
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02-03-20
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 ...
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02-03-20
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...
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01-30-20
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...