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Obama's Oil Savings Plan at Work: UPS

April 1, 2011 by Luke Tonachel
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In a speech in Georgetown earlier this week, President Obama restated his goal to cut oil imports by a third by 2025, and laid out a plan to get there: by increasing vehicle carbon pollution and fuel economy standards and expanding domestic drilling. (My colleague Deron Lovaas has pointed out earlier that expanding drilling ain’t gonna... [read more]

UPS turns to LNG, not CNG, for natural gas fueled long-haul trucks

February 25, 2011 by Michael Giberson
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The low cost of natural gas and the high cost of petroleum products like diesel and gasoline have produced a lot of interest in natural gas as a transportation fuel. It is an idea that’s been around for a while and works fine in practice. Most of the interest and effort has gone into using compressed natural gas (CNG). UPS recently... [read more]

Choosing Green Projects Wisely

October 1, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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One aspect of blogging I never anticipated was the degree to which it would put me on the radar screen of public relations agencies. Not a day goes by that I don't receive at least a half dozen emails from various PR firms seeking publicity for a new product, project, initiative or campaign. Their clients include companies, government... [read more]

Pushing the Envelope: How to Green Your Shipping

September 9, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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What goes up must come down. Similarly, everything that comes to our mailbox comes from somewhere else. For most of our history, we haven’t thought too much about where this package or that letter came from. Unless it arrived from family, friends or some exotic location, we hardly spent a minute thinking about the distance our... [read more]

FedEx: Pushing the envelope on sustainability

October 22, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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When you need to ship a package, how do you choose between FedEx and UPS? Their services are similar, if not identical. While I’ve never compared prices, I assume they are roughly equivalent. Could the company’s sustainability practices come into play? I’m told that they do, for select customers. Their employees care as well–people want... [read more]