Oil & Gas
LNG Drilling Rigs Cut Fuel Costs 47 Percent, Encana Says
Encana, Canada's largest natural-gas producer, saved $830,000 in fuel costs, a cost reduction of 47 percent, by switching the power for its shale gas drilling ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar Tariffs
Energy analysts say that the risk of the aviation sector exiting the EU cap-and-trade scheme is being priced into the market, and the impact could ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track
The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...
BP Sustainability Report: Greenhouse Emissions, Energy Use Drop
Oil giant BP's direct greenhouse gas emissions dropped from 64.9 million metric tons in 2010 to 61.8 Mte in 2011, according to the company's latest ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS
New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Tests, MATS Hearing, Ballast Water, FOIA on Keystone
A first round of EPA tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in Dimock, Penn., near natural gas drilling operations of Cabot Oil ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...
GRI Releases Sustainability Taxonomy, Public Comments on G4
The Global Reporting Initiative has released a taxonomy for tagging sustainability data in reports and has released the results of the first public comment period ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety Rules, Ohio Fracking Law
Coal-reliant Poland vetoed a European Union roadmap for cutting the bloc's carbon emissions by 80 percent by mid-century. All 26 other EU countries supported the ...
Fracking Industry May Lack Will to Avoid Environmental Impacts, Report Finds
The natural gas industry is technologically capable of tapping shale gas resources, but some companies may have trouble managing the environmental and social risks involved, ...
Henkel Sustainability Report: Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions Drop 9% Year-On-Year
Henkel, the company behind Dial, Purex, Right Guard and other personal care brands, reduced its energy consumption by over nine percent from 2010 to 2011, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Votes on Keystone, Drilling and MACT; Obama Proposes Alt Fuel Tax Breaks for Business
A vote Thursday in the Senate to attach the Keystone XL oil pipeline project to a must-pass transportation bill failed 56 to 42; a vote ...
Pollution Control Market to Top $9bn by 2017, Report Says
The global air pollution control equipment market should grow significantly once utility, oil and gas companies comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations such as the ...
GEMI, Veolia Launch Water Tools
Green business alliance the Global Environmental Management Initiative has launched free sustainable water management tools the GEMI Local Water Tool and the GEMI LWT for ...
BP Reaches $7.8bn Oil Spill Settlement with Businesses, Individuals
BP announced that it has reached a $7.8 billion settlement proposal with the individual and business plaintiffs represented by the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC), ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Offshore Wind, Clean Energy Standard, 10 Coal-Fired Plants to Retire
A planned six-year $180 million Department of Energy initiative is targeting the potential of offshore wind energy. Four offshore wind energy installations will have access ...
Energy-Intensive Midwest Manufacturing Needs Efficiency Shot, Report Finds
Midwest states tend to be heavy on manufacturing but light on energy efficiency programs, according to the World Resource Institute's Midwest Manufacturing Snapshot: Energy ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Keystone XL, Australia Carbon Tax, EU ETS Permit Supply, U.S. GHG Report
The White House backed TransCanada Corp.'s bid to build a major portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline - a $2.3 billion section called Gulf ...
ConocoPhillips, Others Show Thirst for Groundwater
As water conservation measures come up short, industrial facilities, including one owned by ConocoPhillips, are increasingly turning to groundwater as a water source, according to ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Window Efficiency Rating, Energy Star, Dexos1 Engine Oil, Green Meetings
The Federal Trade Commission has a new Shopping for Windows infographic that illustrates how the National Fenestration Rating Council's energy-rating label measures the energy ...
