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Biggest U.S. Companies Setting More Renewable-Energy Targets

  • Corporations bought 2.5 gigawatts of clean energy last year
  • Fortune 500 companies saving $3.7 billion with clean power

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm off of Block Island, Rhode Island, on Sept. 14, 2016.

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg
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Almost half of the biggest U.S. companies have established clean-energy targets for themselves, according to a report Tuesday from sustainable investors and environmental groups including the World Wildlife Fund.

It’s not just the biggest U.S. companies -- 44 percent of the smallest 100 members of the Fortune 500 have also set goals, up from 25 percent in 2014, and 48 percent of the entire list.