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Software company Intuit announced a new program, “Purely Green,” that will share its corporate wind power procurement in Texas with commercial and residential customers. In partnership with retail energy provider Just Energy, the program will offer discounted renewable energy credits to hundreds of thousands of electricity customers across Texas.

Anheuser-Busch launched its U.S. 2025 Sustainability Goals, including targets for renewable electricity and carbon reduction. These goals build on the 2025 Global Sustainability Goals recently announced by the brewer’s parent company AB InBev.

Walmart announced that suppliers have reported reducing more than 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions in the global value chain, as part of the company’s Project Gigaton initiative. This progress was shared at Walmart’s annual Sustainability Milestone Summit

Morgan Stanley announced a new energy efficiency program that includes a turnkey LED lighting and digital controls solution to reduce lighting-related energy consumption by as much as 50% in some locations.

BP announced plans for reducing emissions including zero net growth in operational emissions out to 2025 from 2015 levels, as well as a 3.5 million-ton reduction of sustainable GHG emissions in the same timeframe.

JBS USA, a global branded food company, recently announced its sustainability progress for 2017 and targets for 2020, along with the release of its 2017 Sustainability Report.