Mars, Inc., McLean, Va., partnered with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, New York, to build a new 200MW wind farm that will generate 100% of the electricity needs of Mars’ U.S. operations.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced the winners of its internal 2014 Sustainable Development Awards, a company-wide program that drives and rewards imaginative approaches to sustainability and produces bottom line business results.
Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., welcomed President Barack Obama to its Upper Marlboro, Md., distribution center as he called for new fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks.
Norfolk Southern’s Birmingham Regional intermodal facility at McCalla, Ala., meets standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), according to the Norfolk, Va.-based transportation company.
Norfolk Southern Corp., Norfolk, Va., disclosed the railroad’s business strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its environmental footprint in a filing with the international not-for-profit CDP.
USPOULTRY, Tucker, Ga., updated its Carbon Footprint Estimation Toolkit to assist its members with adhering to EPA’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting requirement and to reduce the burden of performing GHG emission calculations.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. released a detailed report of its sustainability results for fiscal 2012 on its newly updated website, www.smithfieldcommitments.com.