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Minding the sustainability GAAP

By Janet Ranganathan and Linnea Laestadius, World Resources Institute

Limited transparency around corporate sustainability risks can lead to investments that are bad for the environment, and investors’ bottom lines.

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WRI: The challenge and promise of carbon capture and storage

By Sarah Forbes, World Resources Institute

I don’t use the term “clean coal.” There will always be environmental issues surrounding the production and use of coal. But for the foreseeable future, global energy demands are going to require us to keep on burning it. That has brought everyone’s attention to bear on Carbon Capture and Storage, or CCS, the process that most commonly uses chemical solvents to “scrub” CO2 from the overall emission stream, transport it, and then inject and store it in rock strata.

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The secret sauce behind Smucker's sustainability

by Marc Gunther, GreenBiz.com

In 1897, a farmer in Orrville, Ohio, named Jerome Monroe Smucker began selling stoneware crocks of apple butter from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. He signed the lid of each one, to vouch for its quality.

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Climate bill: where to from here?

by Eileen Claussen and Manik Roy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

By all indications, the climate bill is done for the year. A casualty of … well, you’ve been hearing the blamefest.

So what’s next?

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Important considerations for a “utility only” climate bill

by Jennifer Morgan, World Resources Institute

With senators scrambling to find the right mix of policies that will get votes, one idea under consideration is a greenhouse gas reduction bill for the electric power sector –- so called “utility only ”– rather than one that covers most sectors of the U.S. economy.

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A “utility only” cap on emissions?

World Resources Institute

The Senate must consider several important issues before designing an electric power-only emissions trading program.

There’s been a lot of chatter of late about the Senate designing a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction program for the electric power sector – so called “utility only” – as opposed to a broader program like the one passed by the House last year that covers most sectors of the U.S. economy.

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