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Regulators in Washington state have adopted a new rule requiring businesses with large carbon emissions to cap and gradually reduce them over time.

As part of its effort to serve the information needs of large commercial and industrial energy executives, Smart Energy Decisions on Sept. 19 announced the launch of its inaugural event: the Smart Energy Decisions Innovation Summit.

Culling eight years of data from its Climate Corps program, the Environmental Defense Fund's new report on organizational energy management outlines key trends and recommendations for next steps, including case studies from corporate hosts including Comcast, Nestlé, Tiffany & Co. and Iron Mountain.

Funding supports clean energy projects at large and medium-size industrial facilities and is expected to yield more than $12 million in annual savings, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority said Sept. 12.

FedEx Corp. subsidiary FedEx Freight has purchased more than 100 compressed natural gas tractors and installed a CNG fueling station to serve the new fleet at its service center in Oklahoma City.

Microsoft recently partnered with the nation's largest power producer, NRG Energy, to announce new research on the topic of energy storage.

Amid a major corporate merger and divestiture, at least one thing appears to have remained constant at Allergan, according to the company's director of global energy engineering.

Three major additions and three major deletions from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices were announced Sept. 8.

Energy storage can refer to a wide range of technologies and approaches to manage power. There are a number of technologies relevant to commercial and industrial facilities, which can operate as standalone systems or in tandem with a solar PV photovoltaic installation.