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A waste firm will introduce plastic vehicles to its fleet which are lighter than traditional trucks and could each save up to 11 tonnes of carbon a year.

Deere & Co. dropped out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) in May, which has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Deere did not make an announcement in May that it was leaving the coalition. Ken Golden, a spokesman for the manufacturer of farm machinery, said Deere left USCAP because the group’s legislative strategy “no longer served as a foundation for moving forward” with climate change regulation, according to the article.

The company joins a handful of others that have left the partnership in recent months, including ConocoPhilips, which decided against renewing its membership to ensure “fair and equitable treatment of the transportation sector.”

BP America and Caterpillar also left USCAP following ConocoPhilips’ announcement that it would not renew its membership.

About two dozen companies remain in the group, including General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens and Alcoa. The group also has picked up four new members in the past year, including Honeywell and Weyerhaeuser.

The coalition, which was founded in 2007, has been a lightning rod for groups that have opposed a cap-and-trade scheme since it recommended a phased-in cap-and-trade system for U.S. producers of carbon dioxide in 2009, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Most recently, two conservative policy groups — FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project– ran television commercials that said cap-and-trade legislation would put Deere’s U.S. employees at risk of losing their jobs if the company moves to lower cost manufacturing sites overseas, reports the newspaper. The ads also accused Deere of supporting “back-room deals” by members of Congress to get votes to pass carbon regulation.

FreedomWorks also confronted Deere’s chairman and CEO at the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting in February about its membership.

Deere is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program and participates in the Business Environmental Leadership Council.

Cruise ships and large commercial vessels will be banned from dumping any kind of sewage – even highly filtered wastewater — along California’s coast within three miles of shore, under new rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the San Jose Mercury reports.

The rules, which were announced Wednesday at a news conference in San Francisco, give California among the strictest laws in the nation limiting pollution from large ships.

“This is going to cover the entire California coastline,” state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) told the San Jose Mercury. “Oceangoing vessels should not consider our coastline a place for dumping sewage.”

In 2005, Simitian wrote a bill that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed banning sewage discharges in state waters from cruise ships and commercial ships larger than 300 gross tons.

That bill — the first of its kind in the nation — made it illegal for such ships to discharge oily bilge water, “gray water” from sinks and showers and other hazardous waste. But a key provision that also banned sewage releases could not legally take effect until EPA gave permission under the federal Clean Water Act.

Simitian said the sewage ban will go far to keep cruise ships, which he called “floating cities,” from contaminating coastal waters. “Ask yourself whether you’d like to have a community of three or four thousand people dumping their waste on your doorstep,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

But the nation’s largest association of cruise lines said on Wednesday that the ban won’t affect its vessels because the ships already follow a non-discharge policy as stringent as the federal ban.

“It will have no impact on our members,” said Michael Crye, of the Cruise Line International Association told the Los Angeles Times.

Crye said major cruise lines operating off the coast of California have not discharged sewage within three miles of the coast since the state passed the coast contamination law in 2005. Instead, he said, ships store the sewage in large holding tanks until it is discharged at municipal wastewater treatment facilities or eventually emptied offshore.

But the new rule doesn’t just target cruise liners. Large container vessels bringing goods into port also would be covered by the regulation.

The new rule allows the U.S. Coast Guard to cite vessels for violations and applies to all sewage discharges, treated or not.

The U.S. set a goal to obtain one billion gallons of home-grown fuel from corn stalks, wood chips and other non-edible waste by 2013 and 16 billion gallons by 2022, under the 2007 renewable fuel standard (RFS), but there is still not one cellulosic (non-food or non-edible parts of plants) ethanol plant in the U.S., reports SolveClimate. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that the cellulosic sector is about four years behind RFS targets. There are, however, almost 200 corn ethanol refineries across the country.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) claims the government can get advanced biofuels back on track for a cost of $4 billion, which would be used to fund a 30 percent investment tax credit and loan guarantees, reports SolveClimate

The UCS report, “The Billon Gallon Challenge” (PDF), recommends a plan to accelerate cellulosic biofuels to commercial scale through investment in tax credits and loan guarantees to support the first 1 billion gallons of annual cellulosic biofuels production capacity.

The second part of the USC plan calls for the replacement of existing biofuels tax credits, as they expire, with a Biofuels Performance Tax Credit that supports all biofuels based on their performance in replacing oil and reducing global warming emissions.

Some organizations oppose the recommendations. Ed Hubbard of the Renewable Fuels Association, told SolveClimate that the Billion Gallon Challenge would destroy a successful sector of the industry in an effort to promote newer technologies.

The report estimates that by commercializing cellulosic biofuels and meeting the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates it would reduce global warming emissions by 45 million metric tons a year (compared with status quo projections) by 2022.

The report also calls for cleaning up all biofuels. The report finds that by upgrading the technology at all existing corn ethanol facilities it could reduce global warming emissions by more than 20 million metric tons a year.

USC says the Billion Gallon Challenge and the Biofuels Performance Tax Credit, together, could reduce global warming emissions almost 100 million metric tons a year by 2022.

In July, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposal for the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2). In 2011, 7.35 percent of all motor vehicle fuel sold in the U.S., nearly 14 billion gallons, must come from renewable sources, including cellulosic biofuels.

In the wake of the USC report, KL Energy and Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras announced an agreement to produce cellulosic ethanol from sugar cane bagasse, the waste created when sugar cane is processed into sugar, reports Businessweek.

Under the agreement, Petrobras will invest $11 million to adapt KL Energy’s test plant in Upton, Wyo., to use the waste and other feedstocks, according to the article. KL Energy expects to have the Upton plant ready to use sugar cane waste in several months.

Miguel Rossetto, head of Petrobras’ biofuels subsidiary, said in a statement the company hopes cellulosic ethanol technology will boost its ethanol production by 40 percent without increasing the number of sugar cane acres, according to Businessweek.

KL Energy will use sugar cane waste from Louisiana since it doesn’t grow in Wyoming. Currently, the plant in Wyoming makes small batches of cellulosic ethanol from fallen and dead trees, brush and forest debris from Black Hills National Forest.

Globally, oil company Shell and Cosan S.A., one of the world’s largest ethanol companies based in Brazil, signed binding agreements to form a $12 billion joint venture for the production and commercialization of ethanol and power from sugar cane.

The joint venture would become one of the largest ethanol producers in the world with 4,500 retail stations and annual production capacity of 2 billion liters (440 million gallons), according to the companies. The company would distribute a variety of industrial and transportation fuels through a combined distribution and retail network in Brazil.

In addition, the inclusion of Shell’s equity interests in Iogen Energy, a technology development company focused on cellulosic ethanol, and Codexis, a provider of biocatalysts, would enable the joint venture to deploy next generation biofuels technologies in the future. The company will also generate electricity from sugar cane bagasse in cogeneration plants at all mills. Ten cogeneration plants are already operational.

American Airlines and GE is debuting its inaugural flight today (August 26) using the first U.S. commercially designed instrument flight path, which is expected to significantly cut aircraft CO2 emissions, improve airline efficiency and reduce delays.

AA flight 1916 will fly from Dallas/Fort Worth to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn. and land using the first public flight path in the U.S. The new “highway in the sky” ensures the aircraft adheres to a precise, predetermined path, according to GE.

American Airlines also recently conducted a test of next-generation technology and procedures on a flight from Paris to Miami to determine their impact on reducing carbon emissions and saving fuel on trans-Atlantic routes.

Naverus, a part of GE Aviation, designed the path, which incorporates Required Navigation Performance technology (RNP), a core component of the FAA’s NextGen airspace modernization plan. RNP paths can be custom-tailored to reduce airport congestion, shorten trip distance, reduce an aircraft’s time in flight, and create community-friendly flight trajectories that lessen the effect of aircraft noise, says GE.

The new landing procedure will allow pilots to use onboard technology to follow a precise track, independent of older ground-based navigation beacons that limit where the aircraft can go.

Captain Brian Will, American Airlines’ Director — Airspace Modernization and Advanced Technologies says this new procedure is a critical step to help implement NextGen modernization.

GE deploys RNP procedures around the world and is the first third-party procedure designer to publish a public RNP procedure in the U.S. GE’s RNP procedures are in regular daily use in Canada, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Peru.

GE also is working with the FAA and other regulatory bodies and navigation service providers to develop the capability for aircraft to share optimized flight trajectories with air traffic control in real time, which will allow airlines to plan each flight to operate on the most efficient flight path with the least possible environmental impact.

GE says navigational and operational capabilities such as these will make air traffic management more efficient by helping airlines plan more direct routes, which will decrease airspace congestion, save fuel and reduce commercial aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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NextEra Energy has reduced its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 33 percent over the past decade due to significant investments in low- and no-carbon power generation, according to the company’s 2010 Sustainability Report (PDF). In 2009, 93 percent of its power comes from low- and no-emission fuel sources including wind, solar, natural gas, and nuclear.

From 2000 through 2009, NextEra Energy’s CO2 emissions rate declined from 985 pounds per megawatt-hour to 657 pounds per megawatt-hour. The company has invested billions of dollars to build the largest wind energy business and third largest nuclear power fleet while also adding a significant amount of new combined-cycle natural gas capacity. As a result, the company’s CO2 emissions rate is nearly 50 percent below the U.S. electric power sector average of 1,297 pounds per megawatt-hour.

According to NRDC, NextEra Energy is the nation’s fourth largest electric power producer, yet its overall emissions and emission rates for CO2, SO2 and NOx are significantly lower than many of its peers, which it attributes to the company’s expanded wind power generation. A Ceres reports ranks NextEra 86th among the 100 top power companies for its CO2 emissions rate, 77th for NOx, and 75th for SO2 emissions, based on 2008 data.

Since 1990, the company has increased its electric power generation by 230 percent, while reducing its emissions rates of CO2 by 31 percent, NOx by 88 percent, and SO2 by 87 percent.

At the end of 2009, NextEra Energy remained the nation’s No. 1 producer of wind energy, with more than 7,500 megawatts of installed capacity (a typical nuclear plant has about 1,000 megawatts of capacity). The company estimates that it will avoid more than 14 million tons of CO2, nearly 31,000 tons of NOx, and more than 33,000 tons of SO2 from wind generation alone.

The company was also the No. 1 operator of solar power with 335 megawatts in service, including the largest solar power plant in the world in California’s Mojave Desert. Some of the projects include a contract to sell 250 megawatts of solar thermal power from its proposed Genesis Solar Energy Project to Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

The company also commissioned the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in October 2009, bringing commercial scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power to Florida for the first time. NextEra touts the 25-MW plant as the largest solar facility in the nation. Over 30 years, the plant is expected to avoid 575,000 tons of greenhouse gases and decrease fossil fuel use by 277,000 barrels of oil and 7 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

A second Florida solar facility was commissioned in April 2010 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, which has added 10 megawatts to Florida’s solar PV capacity. Over 30 years, this facility will prevent the emission of more than 227,000 tons of greenhouse gases, and decrease fossil fuel use by approximately 122,000 barrels of oil and 2.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas. The company also completed a 1-megawatt solar array for NASA that is helping power the U.S. space program.

Construction is also underway at its Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, with completion scheduled for December 2010, and the new Cape Canaveral Next Generation Clean Energy Center, which will be capable of generating 1,250 megawatts of electricity, is expected to open in 2013.

The 75-megwatt Martin facility will be the world’s first hybrid plant that adds solar power to an existing combined-cycle natural gas turbine and will be the second largest thermal solar plant in the United States, according to the company. The Martin facility will avoid more than 2.75 million tons of greenhouse gases and decrease fossil fuel use by approximately 600,000 barrels of oil and 41 billion cubic feet of gas over 30 years, according to the company.

In addition, NextEra is the nation’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas, operates eight nuclear power units in four states, and is a leading producer of hydroelectric power in Maine, with 81 generating units totaling approximately 359 net megawatts of power.

In 2009, the company generated 15.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity from its wind farms, compared with 12.2 million megawatt-hours from its largest nuclear plant. Overall, 4.2 percent of the company’s electricity was generated from coal, compared with an industry average of 45.4 percent.

The company’s investor-owned utility, Florida Power & Light, was No. 2 in the nation in cumulative electricity saved through demand-side management programs through the end of 2009. Through its investments in combined-cycle natural gas generation, FPL has also reduced its emissions profile. The utility alone has a carbon dioxide emissions rate 35 percent below the national average.

Under the World Wildlife Fund’s PowerSwitch! program, NextEra is committed to a 15 percent improvement in electric generation efficiency by 2020 from a 2002 baseline. As a result of its investments in high-efficiency combined-cycle natural gas electric generating plants, which displace electricity generated from older and less efficient plants, the company exceeded its 15 percent efficiency improvement goal in 2009, 11 years ahead of its target date.

The company estimates that the increased efficiency will avoid nearly 6.5 million tons of CO2 in 2009. Based on current projections, NextEra estimates that its power plant efficiency will be improved by more than 25 percent by its target date of 2020, resulting in the avoidance of more than 14 million tons of CO2 per year.

NextEra also is working to decrease its carbon footprint beyond the electric system infrastructure. As an example, the company has 250 hybrid cars and trucks including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) — on the road today, with plans to convert one-third of its 2,400 company cars to hybrids by the end of 2010.

According to the report, the company has doubled the size of its hybrid vehicle fleet each year for the past three years, saving more than 149,000 gallons of fuel in 2009, reducing its carbon footprint by 1,325 metric tons of CO2.

The company is also greening its facilities. As an example, the company installed three solar arrays in 2009 and 2010 on the rooftop of its corporate headquarters in Juno Beach, Fla. The company expect to have 25 kilowatts of solar capacity in operation by the end of 2010, which will help NextEra prevent more than 40,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.

The company is also converting interior office lighting to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) approved units, which is expected to improve energy efficiency by 30 percent, and has installed waterless urinals, which is saving up to 2.1 million gallons of water per year.

The company also has reduced its water withdrawal rates, excluding the water that passes through its hydroelectric facilities. In 2009, the company withdrew approximately 1.9 trillion gross gallons of water from different sources. This represents a withdrawal rate of 11,900 gallons of water per megawatt-hour of electricity produced, down from 13,600 gallons in 2008 and 13,900 gallons in 2007.

The company attributes the reduction to an increase in renewable energy sources and the commissioning of several new combined-cycle power plants that withdraw substantially fewer gallons of water per megawatt produced than older conventional power plants.

The Sony Ericsson Elm phone has topped the UK’s first sustainable rating system for mobile phones with 4.3 out of 5 points for its ‘green’ credentials.

The Sony Ericsson Elm phone is part of Sony Ericsson’s GreenHeart range of mobile phones and accessories, aimed at greening the manufacturer’s entire portfolio. Sony Ericsson is committed to reducing CO2 emissions by 20 percent and greenhouse emissions by 15 percent from its mobile phone’s full product lifecycle by 2015.

In a recent version of Greenpeace’s “Guide to Greener Electronics,” Sony/Ericsson ranks near the top, just behind Nokia.

The O2 Eco Rating evaluated 65 mobile phones from six manufacturers — Sony Ericsson, Nokia, HTC, LG, Samsung and Palm — based on their environmental impact. Five of the top 10 mobile phones in the rating were designed by Sony Ericsson. [Editor's note: There are some problems accessing the rating outside the UK.]

The green ranking, launched in partnership with sustainability advisers Forum for the Future, gives phones a rating of zero to five based on their environmental footprint, including ecological impact of raw materials, manufacturing process, packaging, energy efficiency, and how easy they are to reuse or recycle, reports The Guardian.

Seven phones tied in second place with a score of 4.0: the Nokia 1800, Nokia 6700, Nokia C7, Samsung GT-S8500, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro and Sony Ericsson Zylo, according the article.

Notably missing from the ranking is Apple. Apple refused to allow its iPhones to be included in the ranking, noting that the company provides its environmental reporting online, reports The Guardian.

RIM, which produces the Blackberry, has pledged to join the green ranking next year.

After a two-and-half year environmental review, California regulators have approved a license for the 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project, reports The New York Times. The project is said to be the nation’s first large-scale solar thermal power plant in two decades.

NextEra Energy Resources filed an application in March 2008 to build the Beacon project on 2,012 acres of former farmland in Kern County, which would feature long rows of parabolic mirrors, but some rural residents objected to the 521 million gallons of groundwater the project would consume annually in the Mojave Desert, according to the article. Through negotiations, NextEra agreed to use recycled water that will be piped in from a neighboring community.

This is one of several big solar farms that are expected to receive approval from the California Energy Commission in the next month, according to the article

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) also is fast tracking several solar projects. As an example, Chevron Energy Solutions’ proposed 45-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant on 516 acres of federal land managed by BLM in the Mojave Desert moved one step closer to being build after clearing its final environmental review by BLM. The Lucerne Valley Solar Project is one of BLM’s “fast-track projects” that demonstrate that they have made sufficient progress to formally start the environmental review and public participation process

What’s driving developers and regulators to license solar plants and start construction by year end is the upcoming expiration of federal incentives for renewable energy projects, according to the article. Three investor-owned utilities also face a deadline to get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2010.

However, solar developers with power plants planned in the Mojave Desert have faced significant environmental disputes and have come under fire for their impact on protected wildlife and water supplies. In December 2009, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would protect a million acres of Mojave Desert, putting on hold 13 large solar plants and wind farms at the time that had been proposed for the area.

Earlier in 2009, the California Energy Commission had estimated that as many as 160,000 acres of desert lands in California were needed to meet its 33 percent renewable energy goal by 2020.

Duke Energy Center, Charlotte, N.C., and the Iowa Central Community College, Fort Dodge, Iowa, were named the Grand Prize winners of Siemens Industry’s inaugural Smartest Buildings in America Challenge. Runner-up winners are the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Rasmussen Building at Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa.

The challengers were scored on how innovatively their organizations use Siemens’ APOGEE or TALON building automation systems to achieve business, efficiency or sustainability goals. The ranking also considered the innovations, features or capabilities implemented by the building owner, facility manager or consulting-specifying engineer to make the building a Smart Building.

Five industry experts chose the winners from finalists that included a wide range of facilities from across the U.S. Grand prize winners will receive $25,000 in products and services from the Building Technologies Division, or a $25,000 contribution to qualified charities of their choice. Runner-up prize winners will receive $15,000 in products and services or a $15,000 contribution to qualified charities of their choice.

Here are some key features of the four prize winners.

The Duke Energy Center is a LEED Core and Shell 2.0 Platinum certified office tower with 48 stories and 1.5 million square feet. Using the Siemens APOGEE Building Automation System, the facility has improved its operational efficiencies, reducing energy consumption by 22 percent.

The Iowa Central Community College Biotechnology and Health Science Building is a LEED Gold building that uses the Siemens TALON AX system to integrate six mechanical systems and operate equipment such as water-to-air heat pumps, pumping systems, water-to-water heat pumps, and air handling units.

Alaska’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center is in the process of receiving LEED Platinum certification, which would make it the furthest north LEED Platinum building in the world. Using the Siemens APOGEE system to handle Alaska’s extreme climate, the research center has more than 1,200 sensors that monitor everything from the walls to the roofs, rainwater, foundations, permafrost, and HVAC.

The Rasmussen Building at Grand View University uses the Siemens TALON system to automatically operate VAV boxes for the entire facility, to raise and lower window shades based on time of day and interior room temperatures, and to adjust lighting for the Art Gallery and main conference room.

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There is a growing trend among businesses to measure, report and neutralize the carbon footprint of their products. The first step to carbon neutrality is a product life-cycle assessment (LCA). This thorough assessment provides a comprehensive view of the carbon footprint of a product throughout its life, but it is worth the upfront time and cost?

In general, LCAs cost between $10,000 and $20,000 but can go up to $50,000 or more depending on the complexity of the product, its supply chain and the availability of information. Although those numbers might sound high at first, keep in mind that the LCA offers new information about your supply chain and energy use that may help you to cut costs. This data can provide your business with a clear view of areas where you can focus your efforts to make real reductions in energy use and carbon reductions. And, as we all know, energy savings equals cost savings. Often the upfront costs of the LCA are paid for many times over through the efficiency gains that are realized as a result of the assessment.

Companies have also recouped some of the cost through the increase in sales and profits that they have seen by participating in carbon neutral product certification, which uses as a baseline for emissions reductions and carbon neutrality the carbon footprint from an LCA. Motorola, for example, launched their MOTO™ W233 Renew carbon neutral phone in early 2009. The company has certified and labeled as such two additional cell phones and a line of accessory products. Retailer and customer demand were strong enough to support Motorola extending these carbon neutral products to markets such as Brazil, Canada and other countries, as well as the U.S.

As for energy savings, Bill Olson, Director, Office of Sustainability and Stewardship, Motorola Mobile Devices notes, “The MOTO™ W388 Renew+, our most recent mobile phone certified, uses post-consumer recycled content plastic and has eco-conscious packaging and energy-efficient performance.”  Motorola has now begun to look at the carbon footprint of its other products.

Going carbon neutral should be especially feasible for those who have already completed an LCA. If the assessment has already been done, a business can complete certification and go to market in as quickly as a matter of weeks. The current political and economic climate indicates that carbon footprinting and labeling will soon be a reality for businesses everywhere. By taking early action your business can gain a first-to-market advantage, augment its sustainability efforts and have a proven platform to address climate change and environmental protection.

Eric Carlson is President of Carbonfund.org, whose CarbonFree® Product Certification Program launched the first carbon neutral product label in the U.S. He can be contacted directly at ecarlson@carbonfund.org.

The Recovery Act has kept the country on track to halve the cost of solar power and has helped lay the foundation to double renewable energy generation and renewable equipment manufacturing in the U.S., according to a White House report.

The Recovery Act has kept the country on track to halve the cost of solar power and has helped lay the foundation to double renewable energy generation and renewable equipment manufacturing in the U.S., according to a White House report.

A little knowledge on lighting goes a long way. EDF Climate Corps fellow Sarah Will has helped REi identify almost $900,000 in potential energy savings, and lighting improvements account for a big chunk of the money. Now she can’t help eyeing commercial lighting wherever she goes and contemplating possible savings.

While climate science provides evidence of general trends, we are still a long way from predicting specific climate events. In lieu of precise predictions, a key to effectively managing the physical effects of climate change is preparedness: developing literacy, identifying plausible impacts, evaluating priorities, and building resilience.

So many businesses want to jump on the green bandwagon -- but too often there’s a lot of room for improvement in the ways they focus their messaging. Effective green messaging successfully combines education with marketing. Here are 10 guideposts for formulating those dual-purpose messages.

So many businesses want to jump on the green bandwagon -- but too often there’s a lot of room for improvement in the ways they focus their messaging. Effective green messaging successfully combines education with marketing. Here are 10 guideposts for formulating those dual-purpose messages.

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