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/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/2012/02/03/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/2012/01/30/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/2012/01/24/co2-to-stay-below-2005-levels-u-s-to-wean-itself-from-foreign-oil-eia-predicts/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/24/co2-to-stay-below-2005-levels-u-s-to-wean-itself-from-foreign-oil-eia-predicts/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:33:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68831 Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will remain below 2005 levels through 2035 as increased oil, natural gas and renewable energy production reduces U.S. reliance on imported energy sources, according to projections by the Energy Information Administration. The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 reference case shows energy-related CO2 emissions growing by 3 percent from 2010 to 2035, reaching [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/24/co2-to-stay-below-2005-levels-u-s-to-wean-itself-from-foreign-oil-eia-predicts/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/policy-enforcement-deepwater-horizon-wind-tower-imports-in-review-rio20-thai-flood-plan/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/policy-enforcement-deepwater-horizon-wind-tower-imports-in-review-rio20-thai-flood-plan/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:59:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68714 The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a U.S. District Judge to declare BP, Anadarko and Transocean, as Deepwater Horizon owners and operators of vessels or offshore facilities, liable for penalties under the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The Clean Water Act allows for penalties of $1,100 per barrel of oil spilled, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/policy-enforcement-deepwater-horizon-wind-tower-imports-in-review-rio20-thai-flood-plan/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/bp-predicts-small-future-role-for-renewables/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/bp-predicts-small-future-role-for-renewables/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:35:43 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68580 Energy production by renewable sources will roughly quadruple by 2030, but the use of such energy will still only account for fraction of energy consumption, according to a report by BP. BP Energy Outlook 2030 says that by 2030 global energy production from renewable sources will rise to the equivalent of 860.2 million metric tons [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/bp-predicts-small-future-role-for-renewables/feed/ 4 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/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68164 The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on Enbridge’s proposed $5.4 billion Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline for its potential impact on fishing and traditional life on the Pacific Coast. The pipeline would move 525,000 barrels of oil [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-moratorium-on-uranium-mining-cdc-on-fracking-csapr-lake-tahoe-restoration/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-moratorium-on-uranium-mining-cdc-on-fracking-csapr-lake-tahoe-restoration/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:20:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67991 The Department of the Interior today is expected to announce a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon. The decision is expected to allow existing uranium and other mining operations in the region to continue, but block new claims, the New York Times said. The announcement [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/09/policy-enforcement-briefing-moratorium-on-uranium-mining-cdc-on-fracking-csapr-lake-tahoe-restoration/feed/ 0