Environment

Kaz Makabe on Japan's Nuclear Shutdown

Environment

Trump Administration Rolls Back Progress on Crucial Climate Change Policy

In response to the Trump administration's decision today regarding the United States' commitments to address climate change, World Wildlife Fund’s President and CEO, Carter Roberts, released the following statement:

“The leading nations of the world have come together in recent years to face the threat of climate change and to create the millions of new jobs needed for a renewable energy economy. Leadership from the United States proved critical in this success.

Environment

BSR’s Statement on the U.S. Administration Executive Order on Climate Change

The executive order withdrawing from the U.S. Clean Power Plan puts significant progress toward a clean economy at risk, but two factors will ensure that this low-carbon transition is inevitable.

Energy

Trump Administration Climate Action Rollback Decision Is Misguided and Economically Damaging

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Climate Action Plan, including withdrawing support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, “is completely misguided and ignores the irreversible clean energy economy that is already underway, creating good-paying jobs and economic vitality in communities across the country,” Ceres President Mindy Lubber said in a statement today. Lubber served as the EPA Administrator for the New England Region in 2000.

Energy

National Grid Proposes New Transmission Project: Would Provide Host Community Benefits, Help Secure New England's Clean Energy Future

National Grid today announced a proposal to develop an innovative, new transmission project that would bring up to 1,200 megawatts of clean energy from Canada to the New England power grid.

Innovation & Technology

HP's Technologies for Everyone Series | Energy for Everyone

The “Technologies for Everyone” series, created on Brain Candy, is motivated by the need to make fundamental technical disciplines readily available to everyone at HP. Employees interested in expanding their breadth and depth of knowledge can easily tap into this resource and find themselves immersed in a wealth of disciplines.

Energy

HP Innovates to Make Our Customers, Products, Supply Chain, and Ourselves More Efficient

In January 2017 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that independent analyses conducted by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show that 2016 was the warmest year on record globally and represented the third record year in a row. The release noted that the rise in temperature is being driven primarily by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the largest sources for GHG emissions in the U.S. are electricity production and energy use within industries.

Environment

Your Cities Can Change Our World

Cities account for 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions on the planet.* Because of their population density, cities are also likely to feel the impacts of climate change – including water shortages, more intense natural disasters and heat waves.

Education

Oklahoma Pipeline Simulator Supports Next-Gen Learning

It was the last piece of the puzzle needed to complete the pipeline simulator at Central Technology Center in Drumright, Oklahoma.

Research, Reports & Publications

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Publishes Corporate Responsibility Report

In its Corporate Responsibility Report, published in concert with its 2016 Annual Report, Verizon detailed the progress it has made over the past year toward reaching its corporate responsibility goals, and demonstrated how its technology can help people lead better lives, solve problems in new ways and create lasting value both for Verizon and for society.

Latest Campaigns

Climate Action & Environmental Management

Reach net-zero carbon in our own operations by 2030 and partner with suppliers to reduce their climate impact.

Financial health

At Wells Fargo, we're opening pathways to economic advancement for racially and ethnically diverse and low- and moderate-income individuals and...

Community Impact

Advancing our communities worldwide through philanthropic investments, partnerships, and employee volunteerism.

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Growth Through Sustainability

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...

The Ray

News and information about The Ray, Georgia's restorative, sustainable highway of the future.

Drawdown Georgia

Informed by Project Drawdown, the world’s leading resource for climate solutions, Drawdown Georgia is the first state-centered effort to crowdsolve...

AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism

AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...

People

As a family-owned business, Bacardi values the importance of creating a warm and welcoming workplace. We do so by fostering an environment where...

KeyBank's Community Investment

In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...