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The richest man in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced Feb. 17 through an Instagram post his newest philanthropic initiative: the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund.

Over the past 10 extraordinary years, the United States has fundamentally overhauled how it produces, delivers and consumes energy. The 2020 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook – produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy by BloombergNEF – looks at the U.S. energy transformation of the past decade (2010 – 2019).

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BP announced Feb. 12 that it has set a goal to be net zero by 2050 and will begin rolling out programs to support net zero operations in the world while offering customers more choices of low- and no-carbon products and cutting the carbon intensity o

All new or substantially rehabilitated buildings owned by the City of Los Angeles will be 100% carbon-free under a new initiative announced Feb. 10 by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

SJW Group, a California water and wastewater utility, is aiming to purchase 100% carbon-free power by the end of 2021, which is expected to save 4,682 tons of CO2 from 2019, and complete the installation of on-site solar, according to their newly rel

Developing a corporate sustainability strategy has never been more important. In this column, Patrick Flynn, Senior Director of Sustainability for Salesforce discusses how new technologies, partnerships, and robust environmental data give companies a chance to do well and do good, while making the biggest positive impact .

A new report published by BloombergNEF Feb. 11 found that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduce by 60% between 2020 and 2050 through the electrification of the transport, buildings and industrial sectors in Europe.

Volvo Trucks has begun the installation of charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks, which is being implemented in partnership with Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group.