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Why Medium & Heavy Duty Trucks Received New Fuel Standards

September 13, 2011 by Benjamin Lack
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Carol Lee Rawn, Senior Manager of the Transportation Program for Ceres, discusses the impact of the new fuel-efficiency standards that the Administration passed for heavy and medium-duty trucks.  Full Transcript: Ben Lack: The Obama Administration has recently passed some new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy and medium-duty... [read more]

The next debt crisis will be ecological

May 27, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Anyone who paid attention learned a lot from the global financial crisis of 2008. Here are three lessons that were burned into my brain: 1. Live within your means. Debt creates risk. When homeowners, investors or banks take on lots  of debt, and something goes awry—and it will—they will pay, big time. 2. We’re interdependent. It’s... [read more]

Why U.S. businesses want strong climate action in Copenhagen

December 13, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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This post, by guest blogger Mindy S. Lubber, President, Ceres, was first published here. So why are Nike, Johnson Controls and Sempra Energy sending top execs to Copenhagen to monitor the international climate talks. To block a strong climate deal, right? No, wrong. Dozens of U.S. companies are here advocating for a tough international... [read more]

A historic win for green investors

August 24, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Sometimes, history is made quietly. For decades, shareholder activists have filed dozens, if not hundreds, of resolutions with public companies asking them to improve their environmental policies and practices. Not one passed—until this year. The breakthrough vote came in May at IdaCorp.,  a $988-million a year utility company and... [read more]

The World Bank’s coal problem

July 24, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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So much is going on in the world of business and sustainability that no one can keep up with it all. I’ve decided, as a result, to occasionally feature guest posts  from smart people who follow topics I don’t. Today’s post comes from Mindy Lubber of Ceres, a coalition of institutional investors and environmental groups that works... [read more]

New UCS Analysis Finds Waxman-Markey RES Won't Increase Clean Energy Deployment

June 14, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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By Michael Shellenberger. Originally posted at the Breakthough InstituteAccording to a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard (CERES -- formerly RES) in the Waxman-Markey climate legislation will not increase renewable electricity generation and might actually... [read more]

Prizes, pigs and eco-myths

March 15, 2008 by Marc Gunther
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I’m just back from the Wall Street Journal’s conference on business and the environment, called ECO:nomics. The WSJ brought together an interesting mix of big-name CEOs, investors, a few environmentalists, and a noisy contingent of die-hard conservatives including some people who still believe this whole global warming thing is a some... [read more]

Green Insurance: Number of Climate Change-Related Products Doubles in 2007

October 29, 2007 by Stephen Del Percio
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Ceres is a non-profit coalition of investors, environmental groups, and other public interest organizations that works with companies as they negotiate the issues implicated by sustainability and climate change. Last week, it released From Risk to Opportunity: 2007, Insurer Responses to Climate Change, a comprehensive overview of... [read more]