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/2012/02/02/ford-to-cut-landfill-waste-70-water-30-in-europe/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/ford-to-cut-landfill-waste-70-water-30-in-europe/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:15:28 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69366 Ford’s European operations plan to cut landfill waste 70 percent and water use 30 percent under a five-year sustainability strategy. The waste reduction goal will cut the average landfill waste generated per vehicle from 5 kg in 2011 to 1.5 kg by 2016. The water target will save 1.3 billion liters a year and €2.3 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/ford-to-cut-landfill-waste-70-water-30-in-europe/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/2012/01/27/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/2012/01/20/eu-passes-weee-recast-requires-up-to-85-e-waste-recycling/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/20/eu-passes-weee-recast-requires-up-to-85-e-waste-recycling/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:30:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68640 The European Parliament has passed more stringent targets under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, requiring member states to collect 65 to 85 percent of their e-waste by 2019. The new rules amend the Directive 2002/96/EC, in force since February 2003, which provides for the creation of e-waste collection programs. Under the new [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/20/eu-passes-weee-recast-requires-up-to-85-e-waste-recycling/feed/ 1 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/2011/12/22/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/2011/12/16/microsoft-cloud-computing-can-cut-emissions-by-30-percent-and-more/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/16/microsoft-cloud-computing-can-cut-emissions-by-30-percent-and-more/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:28:06 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66949 Information Communication Technology (ICT) equipment and services are estimated to double their global carbon emissions to 4 percent of global electricity consumption by 2020, taking an 8-10 percent share of electricity consumption in the EU alone, says John Vassallo, Microsoft vice president for EU affairs and associate general counsel. Vassallo’s industry assessment, found at EurActive.com, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/16/microsoft-cloud-computing-can-cut-emissions-by-30-percent-and-more/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/sustainability-at-upm-shotton-paper-mill/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/sustainability-at-upm-shotton-paper-mill/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:10:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66166 The Carbon Trust has helped UPM Shotton paper mill improve its environmental sustainability and its bottom line.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/09/sustainability-at-upm-shotton-paper-mill/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/05/carbon-forecast-slashed-un-seeks-cdm-improvements/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/05/carbon-forecast-slashed-un-seeks-cdm-improvements/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:51:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66216 Point Carbon has slashed its carbon prices forecast for the third phase of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme by 10 euros per ton, against its July prediction, to 12 euros a ton. The analyst said price levels could drop to as little as €10/t between 2013 and 2015, before rising again in the 2018-2020 period, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/05/carbon-forecast-slashed-un-seeks-cdm-improvements/feed/ 1