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The City Council of Columbus, Ohio unanimously voted on March 16 to establish an energy and water benchmarking program, the first in the state, in line with other Midwestern leaders like Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Des Moines.

The Worcester Housing Authority, who provides affordable housing to more than 3,000 households in Massachusetts, finalized the second phase of work on an existing energy performance contract that totaled $23.6 million to construct energy conservation measures at 15 affordable housing developments.

Member airlines of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) are lobbying the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to amend the global agreement for offsetting and reducing airline industry emissions as they deal with the economi

HelloFresh announced April 13 that they will begin offsetting 100% of the CO2 emissions generated from its operations, outbound shipping and corporate travel across its U.S. brands.

Neenah reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 15% and cut energy consumption by more than 18%.

Colgate-Palmolive Company has implemented energy efficiency upgrades that since 2012 have saved the company approximately 349,754 MWh of energy use and 121,824 metric tons of CO2.

Pfizer Inc. announced March 27 the competition of a $1.25 billion ten-year green bond, a first for the company and for a biopharmaceutical company.

Barclays announced March 30 a target to reach net-zero carbon emissions in both its own activities and the activities it finances by 2050 after facing pressure to do so from a group of investors.

The Fredericksburg Nationals will become the first minor league baseball team to have a new kind of eco-friendly synthetic turf field, in addition to solar power generation and other efficiency upgrades, pending their stadium's opening later this year.