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/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69794 Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product. Hydrogen manufactured at Air Products’ Rotterdam, Netherlands, facility (pictured) is then used by the refinery for the desulphurization of oil products and in the manufacture of petrochemicals. Processes applied at the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:34 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69755 The EPA has made a few adjustments to its cross-state air pollution rules (CSAPR) that were signed Tuesday. The adjustments increase budgets in 17 states and ease limits on market-based compliance options. These state-level adjustments vary, and the total budget increases by about 2 percent, Clean Air Watch said. CSAPR is still under a stay, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:38 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69619 The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system’s exposure to high carbon and environmentally unsustainable investments, and the bank is willing to consider the levels of fossil fuel exposure as a potential risk to financial stability, The Guardian reports. The discussion stems from [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/policy-enforcement-briefing-bank-of-england-considers-carbon-bubble-diesel-health-study-delayed/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:18:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69422 Ecologix Environmental Systems, an Atlanta-based wastewater treatment company specializing in the oil and gas industry, has designed a mobile integrated treatment system for hydraulic fracturing that allows the re-use of water for future drilling. Using dissolved air flotation technology, the system can treat up to 900 gallons per minute of frac flowback water. The sped [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/ecologix-launches-fracking-water-treatment-system/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:27 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69396 Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change. The new state regulations reveal the insurance industry’s role in mediating the country’s response to climate change, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/policy-enforcement-briefing-disaster-risk-solyndra/feed/ 0 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/2012/01/31/ge-launches-micro-lng-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/ge-launches-micro-lng-plant/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:15 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69165 GE Oil & Gas has announced the development of a liquefied natural gas plant that it says meets the small-scale requirements of powering remote industrial and residential locations and fueling motor vehicles. The Micro LNG – launched at the 2012 GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting in Florence, Italy – produces in the range of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/ge-launches-micro-lng-plant/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:55:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69087 The California Air Resources Board has unanimously approved new emissions standards for cars and light trucks, for model years 2017 to 2025. The standard cuts greenhouse gas emissions to 166 grams per mile, which ARB says is 34 percent below predicted 2016 levels, and cuts smog-forming pollution by an extra 75 percent from 2014 levels. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/policy-enforcement-briefing-hydroelectric-dam-removal-gulf-lease-sale-biorefinery-assistance-program/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69050 Calgon Carbon Corporation has launched an advanced line of its Fluepac products aimed at controlling mercury emissions in the coal-fired electric power generation market. The new line, which includes the Fluepac MC+ Ultra, Fluepac MC Maxx and Fluepac ST, can reduce carbon injection rates by 50 to 70 percent below that of standard products, while [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/calgon-launches-products-to-control-mercury-emissions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/policy-enforcement-briefing-state-of-the-union-ets-waivers-tidal-permit-cal-iso-plan/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/policy-enforcement-briefing-state-of-the-union-ets-waivers-tidal-permit-cal-iso-plan/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:40:59 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68872 Manufacturers should get incentives to make energy-efficiency improvements to their plants, President Obama said in last night’s State of the Union address. He called on Congress to draft a bill creating such incentives, which he said would save companies $100 billion over a decade. In the speech, Obama also said he was directing his administration [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/policy-enforcement-briefing-state-of-the-union-ets-waivers-tidal-permit-cal-iso-plan/feed/ 0