Business

In 2007, humanity passed a historic milestone. For the first time ever, more people lived in urban environments – namely, cities – than in rural areas. Since then, the trend...

For those of us who don’t speak economics as a native language, California’s extensive cap and trade program tends to arouse one of three reactions: support, apathy and suspicion. We...

“The Week that Electric Vehicles Went Mainstream” was the headline of a recent blog posted by Tesla Motors. Just one week before, the company began taking reservations for its long-awaited consumer-priced...

Volkswagen just laid out an environmentally-friendly roadmap that it hopes will clean up its tarnished image from the diesel emissions scandal and put it at the forefront of the fast...

Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog In a ruling on the Obama Administration's proposed regulations of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on U.S. public lands, U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming Judge Scott Skavdahl...

Tesla’s board of directors formally offered to purchase SolarCity’s outstanding shares and create the first vertically integrated solar power, energy storage and electric transport company.  Elon Musk, the founder and...

The national grocery store chain Trader Joe's has agreed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from its refrigeration equipment in 453 stores. The company agreed to the reductions as part...

Big banks back coal, oil and gas extractions with billions of dollars in financing every year. The 2016 $horting the Climate report exposes the holdings of the world’s largest privately-operated...

Climate change affects people and the environment the world over. However, the financial community has been slow to respond to climate risk. In fact, a recent study shows that global...

Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline currently being contested in federal court and in front of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legal panel,...

Bankruptcy protection filings from the world’s largest private coal company, Peabody Energy, recently revealed a mine of funding for climate denial advocacy. The coal company financed dozens of organizations working to...

Man-made climate change is taking place on a regular basis. Of course, not everyone wants the news out. If enough people truly believed that fossil fuels were contributing to global...

Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Cable TV network MSNBC has made headlines in recent days for apparently moving away from its "Lean Foward" progressive brand, catering instead to a more center-to-right-leaning crowd. "People might...

Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog If the recent past serves as prologue, then online leasing of oil and gas on U.S. federal lands may resemble the proverbial fox guarding the hen house,...

A Q&A With IRENA’s Director-General, Adnan Z. Amin The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has, since its formation in 2009, pushed for the adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy...

Nearly 2,500 Publicly Traded Companies Profit From Eco-Friendly Operations Companies around the world increasingly acknowledge the growing role that sustainability initiatives play in business strategies. However, corporate executive are struggling...

Corporate professionals are acknowledging the role of sustainability in business. The recently published 2016 State of Responsible Business Report, which surveyed more than 2,000 professional around the world, found that...

Show us the data. That's what I hear almost every time I work with decision-makers. Governments and businesses aren't going to invest in conservation without data showing the effectiveness of...