Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels include coal, oil, gas and other fossil fuel-related issues such as fuel economy standards, carbon emission standards and fuel-efficient design. We also examine efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuel through the use of alternative energy sources like wind and solar power.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Rio+20, Natural Gas Lobby, NRC, Camp David Declaration
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
The World Business Council for Sustainable ...
The Impact of Fracking
Fracking and Our Energy Future brings a panel of experts and activists together to discuss the impact of hydraulic-fracturing natural gas ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Bonn Climate Talks, New Zealand ETS, IRIS Review
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said that ...
AEP Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Rise 1.5%, Revenues up 4.8%
American Electric Power's total CO2 emissions rose just shy of 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, while revenues rose 4.8 percent over that time period, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Production Tax Credit, Light Bulbs, Buffett on Keystone
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
President Barack Obama urged Congress to extend ...
North America Has Capacity to Store 500 Years of CO2 Emissions
North America's geological formations have the capacity to store 500 years of carbon dioxide emissions, according to an atlas produced by the United States, Canada ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Keystone XL, Korea ETS, Fracking Rules, Clean Energy Standard
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
TransCanada is expected to reapply for its ...
Delta Airlines Buys Oil Refinery to Control Fuel Prices
Delta Airlines has agreed to buy a refinery from oil giant ConocoPhillips in an effort to reduce its $300 million-a-year jet fuel bill.
The ...
Gamma Light Tech Cuts Ships’ Fuel, Emissions ‘by 75%’
Engineers with Gamma Light & Heavy Industries have developed a propulsion system that can maneuver a ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Hess, BNSF, Columbia Fines; Calif. Buildings, Bioeconomy Blueprint
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes nine items.
The EPA says it temporarily put ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron, Mexico Low-Carbon Bill, Oil Market Speculation
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The new Brazilian prosecutor of the case ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Controls, China Aviation Plan, CVS Settlement
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The Obama administration has set national standards ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Deepwater Horizon, Shell Oil Sheen, YPF Nationalization, Keystone XL, LNG Exports
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 18 items.
A presidential commission investigating the 2010 Gulf ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Vehicle Emissions, Natural Gas, TSCA, Petroleum Reserve
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
Canada issued greenhouse gas emissions rules that ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels, Herbicide Ruling, MA Energy Bill
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
Six biofuel trade associations filed a ...
Higher MPG Standard Likely to Bring $4.8bn in Profits for Automakers, Study Says
The global auto industry will likely earn an extra $4.76 billion, or 5.3 percent, in profits in 2020 due to proposed U.S. gas mileage and ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Chemicals, Refinery Agreement, Loan Program Revived
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The California Department of Toxic Substance ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Registrations, EPA Delays, BPA in Packaging
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 13 items.
The EPA approved the first applications for ...
Renewable Energy Is No Longer a Pipe Dream
In October 2011, the global population reached seven billion. It is on its way to more than nine billion, and it took ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Blocks Activists; BP Funds, Iran, Great Lakes Wind
Shell has won an injunction, issued by a federal district court in Alaska, expanding the scope of an earlier restraining order that blocked Greenpeace activists ...
