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.
Shell Direct GHG Emissions Up 9%
Royal Dutch Shell’s direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its facilities rose by 9 percent in 2010, and its natural gas flaring rose ...
12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies
Energy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the ...
Wind’s Share of New Power Down, Coal Up
Wind power provided 26 percent of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. last year, down from 39 percent in 2009, ...
Fleet Roundup: Chesapeake Energy, Heckmann, Canada Post, Surging Sales and More
Here’s a round-up of the latest environmental fleet news.
Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation, the nation’s second-largest producer of natural gas, last ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Proposes Plant Cooling Regulations to Protect Fish
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday proposed for public comment standards that it says will protect billions of fish and other ...
BP Report Won't Name Spill Figures; TNK-BP Announces Efficiency Projects
BP, in its first corporate sustainability report since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, has refused to put a figure on the amount ...
Environmental Enforcement: Tennessee Valley Authority to Pay $450,000 to Settle Alleged Clean Air Violations
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations made by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
Japan Quake and Nuclear Crisis Could Push Up Emissions, Delay Electric Vehicles
The Japanese earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear crisis may cause wide-ranging reverberations for corporate environmental efforts, from alternative-fuel vehicles to renewables.
Japanese ...
EPA Revises Boiler and Incinerator Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued industrial boiler pollution rules that it says will see industry incur only half the expense as regulations the ...
U.S. Oil to Pay $230,000 Fine to Settle Joint Enforcement Action
U.S. Oil & Refining Co. has agreed to pay a $230,000 fine for violations of two federal air statutes and spend an additional $746,000 in plant improvements to reduce emissions and upgrade its ...
Environmental Enforcement: Second Largest U.S. Refinery Fined $5.3 Million for Air Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced yesterday that Hovensa LLC, owner of the second largest petroleum refinery in the U.S., has agreed ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Asks TCEQ to Postpone Las Brisas Permit
On Monday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) received a letter (pdf) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requesting that the TCEQ not ...
Environmental Enforcement: Court Grants Brief Boiler Rule Extension to EPA
A federal District Court judge in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 issued an order extending by 30 days the Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to issue emission ...
Shareholders Demand Fracking Risk Disclosure
Investors have filed shareholder resolutions urging nine major oil and gas companies to disclose risks of their U.S. natural gas fracturing, or fracking, ...
Renewable Energy – Only One Important Question Remains
Many of us look down the road and try to see into the future of clean energy, but actually, most of the handwriting ...
Environmental Enforcement: Dept of Justice Sues Texas Driller to Enforce EPA Order
The United States Department of Justice filed a complaint on Tuesday against a Texas oil company in federal district court, seeking enforcement of a ...
PepsiCo UK Aims to Ditch Fossil Fuels by 2023
PepsiCo’s operations in the British isles plan to be fossil fuel- free by 2023, the company has announced.
PepsiCo UK and Ireland’s ...
CO2 to Fall This Year, Rise in 2012
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are likely to decline in 2011 but increase in 2012, according to the ...
...Texas Refiners Scramble to Comply with EPA Ultimatum
Last month EPA told dozens of Texas refiners and chemical and plastic makers to begin taking steps to fix flaws in their air pollution permits ...
