http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/policy-enforcement-briefing-case-report-solyndra-probe-keystone-xl-halliburton/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/policy-enforcement-briefing-case-report-solyndra-probe-keystone-xl-halliburton/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69250 The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) has found that levying 100-percent import duties on Chinese-made solar cells and modules may cost more than 60,000 U.S. solar industry and other jobs. Petitioners SolarWorld Industries America have requested tariffs up to 250 percent on Chinese-manufactured products in response to allegations of government subsidies and below-cost pricing, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/policy-enforcement-briefing-case-report-solyndra-probe-keystone-xl-halliburton/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:25:25 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69028 The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of the Union address Thursday. The proposed $5 billion in incentives aren’t new, but – if passed by Congress – are an extension to the Recovery Act’s Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit awarding a 30 percent rebate on qualified [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/policy-enforcement-briefing-world-future-energy-summit-local-carbon-trading-for-china-obama%e2%80%99s-jobs-council-supports-aggressive-energy-policy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/policy-enforcement-briefing-world-future-energy-summit-local-carbon-trading-for-china-obama%e2%80%99s-jobs-council-supports-aggressive-energy-policy/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:52:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68491 At the Abu Dhabi opening of World Future Energy Summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out three core goals for 2030 in his launch of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All campaign: to ensure universal access to modern energy services; to double the rate of improvement of energy efficiency; and to double the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/policy-enforcement-briefing-world-future-energy-summit-local-carbon-trading-for-china-obama%e2%80%99s-jobs-council-supports-aggressive-energy-policy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/carbon-trading-to-double-in-north-america-this-year/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/carbon-trading-to-double-in-north-america-this-year/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:38:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68216 Carbon trading in North America is poised to double this year with the inauguration of carbon markets in California and Quebec, and the total value of the Western Climate Initiative is set to surpass that of the eastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, according to Thomson Reuters Point Carbon. The news service said the volume of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/carbon-trading-to-double-in-north-america-this-year/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-aviation-ets-china-carbon-tax-euronext-settlement-ny-energy-highway/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-aviation-ets-china-carbon-tax-euronext-settlement-ny-energy-highway/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:33:24 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67936 The European Commission said that airlines could be banned from European airports if they do not participate in the European Union’s emission trading system (ETS). A European ban on noncompliant airlines is seen only as a last resort in a scenario of continued non-compliance. Airlines are not required to submit permits for emissions until April [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-aviation-ets-china-carbon-tax-euronext-settlement-ny-energy-highway/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/lufthansa-customers-to-pay-for-ets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/lufthansa-customers-to-pay-for-ets/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:58:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67751 German airline Lufthansa will pass the extra cost that the European Union’s emissions trading system will add to its operation onto customers’ ticket prices, it has announced. Lufthansa anticipates total additional charges of €130 million ($170 million) in 2012 as a result of the tariffs and says the ETS distorts international competition and undermines the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/lufthansa-customers-to-pay-for-ets/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/ithaca-goes-100-renewable/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/ithaca-goes-100-renewable/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:54:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67667 The City of Ithaca, N.Y., is to purchase 100 percent of its electricity consumption from renewable energy sources through a contract signed with Integrys Energy Services of New York Inc. Beginning in January 2012, the city will be purchasing Green-e Energy-certified renewable energy certificates for all its electricity. These RECs will offset about 4,896 metric [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/ithaca-goes-100-renewable/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:51:32 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67434 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a new nuclear reactor design, the Westinghouse AP1000, to be used at two American utilities projects in South Carolina and Georgia. The Westinghouse AP1000 is a 1,154-megawatt that reactor relies more on forces like gravity and natural heat convection and less on pumps, valves and operator actions potentially lessening the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/22/eu-air-directive-upheld/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/22/eu-air-directive-upheld/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:00:32 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67415 United/Continental Airlines and American Airlines have failed in an attempt to block a European Union law charging airlines flying to the continent for their carbon pollution. The airlines and their trade association, Air Transport Association of America – now known as Airlines for America – had challenged the legality of the EU’s Aviation Directive in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/22/eu-air-directive-upheld/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/csr-standards-higher-at-companies-than-suppliers/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/csr-standards-higher-at-companies-than-suppliers/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:01:02 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67257 Corporations set higher social responsibility standards for themselves than for their travel suppliers, according to a survey by business travel payment and data management firm AirPlus International. Some 55.4 percent of surveyed businesses implement green initiatives but just 41.7 percent of those businesses expected such programs from their travel suppliers, according to CSR Initiatives Through [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/csr-standards-higher-at-companies-than-suppliers/feed/ 0