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As the clock winds down on 2016, we've taken a look back at the year in corporate energy management with an eye toward the most impactful storylines.

Since 2000, S.C. Johnson has slashed greenhouse gas emissions from its worldwide factories by nearly 52%, partially attributable to an increase in the use of renewable energy sources.

In introducing plan to support pay for teachers and other public school workers, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently proposed a host of new taxes, including a state carbon tax that would charge emitters $25 per metric ton starting in 2018.

The company has also set a goal to increase the energy performance of its product portfolio 30 times by 2025.

Reaching a last-minute compromise, Michigan lawmakers on Dec. 15 passed long-sought-after reforms to the state's energy policies that will increase the renewable energy standard and maintain the retail electric choice program.

Technology conglomerate Cisco Systems continues to ramp up its energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives, recently reporting the implementation of 100 such projects in fiscal 2016.

In this Smart Energy Decisions exclusive, Robin Haugen, general manager of Toyota North America's plant and environmental engineering group, discusses how she and her team are working toward the global company's 2050 Global Environmental Challenge, which aims to completely remove CO2 emissions from its operations.

Toward its goal of using 30% renewable energy by 2020, Procter & Gamble is currently at about 10%, according to its first-ever corporate citizenship report.

Smart Energy Decisions has announced an initial list of sponsors and attending corporations for its inaugural Innovation Summit event.

Google has made $2.5 billion in equity commitments for renewable energy projects worldwide, according to its 2016 environmental report, which also put numbers on efforts to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible.