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Bertelsmann, a media company that includes Penguin Random House, announced Feb. 17 a new commitment to reducing its operational greenhouse gases by 50% and be carbon neutral by 2030.

In a groundbreaking move by a utility, Consumers Energy announced Feb. 24 a new goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions before 2040.

Ernst & Young (EY) will be carbon neutral by the end of 2020, according to an announcement made Jan. 30.

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Comcast is expecting to save approximate 272 metric of CO2 annually through a 760-panel rooftop solar installation that they recently completed at their multi-purpose facility in Washington, D.C.

Six dairy farms in Western New York are joining a biogas generation project that is expected to produce about 305,000 MMBtu of renewable natural gas each year.

Widespread adoption of medium and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EV) is beginning to take root. However, Shashank Sane, SVP at Invenergy warns in this expert column, if a business really wants to meet its sustainability goals with an EV fleet while meeting its business obligations, managers need to think beyond just adding chargers and put into place a truly resilient charging infrastructure.

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).