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Reaching a last-minute compromise, Michigan lawmakers on Dec. 15 passed long-sought-after reforms to the state's energy policies that will increase the renewable energy standard and maintain the retail electric choice program.

Technology conglomerate Cisco Systems continues to ramp up its energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives, recently reporting the implementation of 100 such projects in fiscal 2016.

In this Smart Energy Decisions exclusive, Robin Haugen, general manager of Toyota North America's plant and environmental engineering group, discusses how she and her team are working toward the global company's 2050 Global Environmental Challenge, which aims to completely remove CO2 emissions from its operations.

Kick back with these must-read energy stories from around the web.

Toward its goal of using 30% renewable energy by 2020, Procter & Gamble is currently at about 10%, according to its first-ever corporate citizenship report.

New York City's public healthcare system reported a 10% reduction in its energy use in 2016 resulting from a series of energy efficiency projects across the network's 11 locations.

Smart Energy Decisions has announced an initial list of sponsors and attending corporations for its inaugural Innovation Summit event.

Google has made $2.5 billion in equity commitments for renewable energy projects worldwide, according to its 2016 environmental report, which also put numbers on efforts to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible.

Current, the energy management "startup" launched by General Electric just over a year ago is undergoing a corporate reorganization, Greentech Media reported Dec. 12.

How can a corporate executive distinguish energy efficiency projects that will pay off from the ones that are full of hot air (and not in a good way)?