Posts Tagged ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions’

Once Again The Mighty Dollar Conquers Green Issues!!!

By Jim • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

Exxon Mobil Corp. chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson will retain both of those jobs at the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company after a highly public, Rockefeller-led push to separate the roles that failed again Wednesday.
Stripping Tillerson of the chairman’s job in favor of an independent director was the main focus of the company’s annual […]



Biomass Used To Generate Electricity.

By Jim • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

Located in Vargem Bonita, Brazil, the Celulose Irani Project demonstrates how one paper manufacturer is finding economic value in what was once considered waste. The facility uses byproduct biomass from their paper production process to generate sustainable energy for their facility. Irani thus provides a model for biomass projects that reduce both waste and greenhouse […]



One Step Forward, Two Steps Back At Climate Talks.

By Jim • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

Major economies made progress in defining the building blocks of a new U.N. deal to fight climate change on Friday but ended split over whether to set a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The U.S.-led meeting of 17 nations accounting for 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, ended with common ground […]