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Congratulations on Saint-Gobain being named a 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is the second year in a row you’ve won the award. Why was this award received?
Corporate Sustainability Programs
Congratulations on Saint-Gobain being named a 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is the second year in a row you’ve won the award. Why was this award received?
Sustainable Manufacturing News
PepsiCo, Inc., a leader in the food and beverage industry, is committed to making energy management a successful and integral part of its corporate sustainability efforts.
Personal Productivity
Right now you're probably busy taking inventory, organizing your books, and evaluating what you did right (and not so right) in hopes of preparing yourself for a profitable new year. Here’s a suggestion: Instead of focusing solely on financial matters, why not take a good hard look at the character of your company?
The U.S. steel industry has reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by 31% since 1990. Since 2002, energy intensity is down 15%. Because of the close relationship between energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, the industry’s aggregate CO2 emissions per ton of steel shipped were reduced by a comparable amount during the same period.
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Leaner and cleaner
Steel-making is an energy-intensive process, and in 2007 alone we used around 22.3 gigajoules per tonne of liquid steel produced, which added up to a worldwide total of 2,565 petajoules. With such big numbers at stake, energy efficiency is crucially important to us both for environmental reasons, and as a way of reducing our costs.
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DOE has joined forces with 32 industrial companies to launch the Save Energy Now LEADER Program, which will provide technical assistance and resources to companies that pledge significant improvements in industrial energy efficiency. The 32 charter member companies from a broad spectrum of the U.S. industrial sector signed a voluntary pledge on December 2 to reduce their industrial energy intensity by 25% over the next decade.
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As the name implies, NUCOR MINI MILLS are small. But their small footprint on the land is just one benefit to their very environmentally friendly nature.
For starters, a mini mill's electric arc furnace requires much less in the way of natural resources. In fact, compared to the traditional blast furnace process, every ton of steel made the mini mill way eliminates the need for:
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Vision 2010 sets out specific environmental objectives and focus areas. These reflect the most significant environmental concerns identified by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development that affect our business: energy use, climate change and the availability of clean water.
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Caraustar has 70 years of commitment to recycling and the manufacture of 100% recycled paperboard products. Caraustar recovers 2.4 million tons of paper fiber each year. In the past 5 years Caraustar Mills have:
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Energy efficiency has always been a priority at Georgia-Pacific, and today Georgia-Pacific facilities self-generate enough energy to meet more than half the company's annual energy needs. As an added benefit, much of that energy is generated from burning renewable biomass fuels, such as bark, wood residue and by-products from the wood pulping process.
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Refining Efficiency
ConocoPhillips continually strives to improve the energy efficiency of our refineries. This accomplishes three goals:
1. Reducing our energy consumption in the form of electricity, natural gas, refinery gas and steam.
2. Improving the GHG impact of our operations.
3. Reducing our operating costs.
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In 2008, our operations consumed approximately 1.5 billion gigajoules of energy. By applying new energy-efficient technologies, we use less energy to run our business, extend the life of the world’s energy reserves, and reduce GHG emissions. Since 2004, we have invested more than $1.5 billion in activities to increase energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions.
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At Anadarko, we are keenly aware that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) - have emerged as a specific concern. We continually look for innovative ways to minimize the overall environmental impacts of our activities, including reducing GHG emissions.
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