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The City of Philadelphia has approved a 70-megawatt solar PPA in Adams County, Penn., to power government facilities in Philadelphia. The project is the largest in Pennsylvania by sevenfold, and a significant step toward the City’s clean energy goal of sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewables by 2030.

As part of the release of Toyota’s North American Environmental Report, the company recapped a year of positive impacts it has made as part of the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, a long-term commitment to support and foster a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Mercedes-Benz has signed a PPA to power its operations in Germany with wind, representing the first corporate renewable PPA signed in that country.

United Airlines is expected to use biofuel created from a waste-to-energy plant for their planes.

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Brandeis University has retrofitted a large part of its campus with LED lighting that is expected to reduce annual lighting costs by 78% for savings of about $32,000 per year.

Danish group AP Moller Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050.

Verizon has set a goal to reach 50% clean energy use by 2025. Now at 2% renewables, the company previously indicated that it would only go to 4% in the foreseeable future.

Intel Corp. has signed a PPA to provide 100 megawatts of solar power to the Intel Chandler-Ocotillo facility in Arizona. The 15-year agreement was signed with Salt River Project, a not-for-profit public power utility.

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced it improved locomotive fuel efficiency by 5% in 2017 vs. 2016, conserving 23 million gallons of diesel fuel and avoiding more than 233,750 metric tons of GHG emissions.