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Get in touch and you won’t be fined, says CRC enforcer

Businesses that have not yet registered for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) will not be fined if they get in touch with the scheme’s enforcer before the September 30 deadline.

Carrier bag usage continues to fall

The number of carrier bags issued by UK supermarkets has fallen by more than 40 per cent since 2006, according to figures released today by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme).

Toyota plans five million cumulative hybrid sales by 2015

Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it wants to reach cumulative sales of five million hybrid vehicles in the early part of this decade.

BP listed 390 problems on Gulf rig

Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, said Monday it had addressed 90 per cent of recommendations made in a BP audit about systems and equipment in need of upgrade or enhancement on the rig a month before it exploded and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.

Chargemaster expects eightfold growth in sales in 2011

Chargemaster Plc said it expects sales of its electric vehicle (EV) charging units to grow eightfold in 2011 following the launch of a range of new charging solutions in April.

Electric car competition set to hot up as Mitsubishi drops price of i-MiEV

Mitsubishi Motors said today that it was reducing the price of its electric car, the i-MiEV, bringing it into line with rival, the Nissan Leaf.

UK’s largest companies still not measuring carbon footprint

Despite the threat of increased legislation, most of the UK’s largest companies do not currently measure their carbon footprint, a survey has found.

Voluntary CO2 offset market participants shrink

Some major participants in the voluntary carbon market are shrinking after the United States failed to implement federal cap-and-trade legislation and the market stopped growing last year.

Hollywood greens up with environmental database

Television and movie makers have no excuse for not jumping on the "green" movement bandwagon. A new website with resources on everything from recycling sets to cruelty-free mascara makes it simple to do so.

ICE cuts staff at Chicago Climate Exchange

Market operator Intercontinental Exchange Inc. is laying off staff at newly acquired US environmental bourse the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), industry sources told Reuters, citing a lack of US action on climate change.

Experts split over level of BP spill damage

BP has scaled down its oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico, while vowing to continue its efforts at the level needed until the environment is made safe.

BP cements Gulf oil well ahead of permanent plug

BP finished pumping cement into its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to seal off the source of the world's worst offshore spill, paving the way to permanently plug the blow-out later this month.

Majority of BP spill 'dealt with'

Almost three-quarters of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico has been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces, the US government has said.

Going green: making the economic case for small business

Louise Bateman talks to David Caro, chair of the Federation of Small Business Environment & Energy Committee, about getting SMEs on a greener footing.

BP readies killer punch for world's worst oil spill

BP tested equipment on Tuesday to deliver the first of two planned killer punches to permanently plug its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well that caused the world's worst accidental oil spill.


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