Wal-Mart selects 20 capitols for energy audits

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced partnerships with Missouri, 18 other states and Puerto Rico to help them save on energy and electricity costs at their capitols.
    Wal-Mart will pay engineering experts to perform energy audits at the capitols and recommend ways to save energy, lower electricity costs and reduce greenhouse emissions, company officials told state leaders Tuesday at the National Governors Association’s State Summit on Clean Power and Efficiency.
    Over the past three years, Wal-Mart has worked to cut energy usage at its stores and suppliers. Through its Greening State Capitols partnership with the National Governors Association, Wal-Mart now will start working with the states.
    “We want to offer our services and expertise and get them to a point where they can at least see the savings within five years,” spokesman Nate Hurst said.