Mining
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Bank of England Considers Carbon Bubble, Diesel Health Study Delayed
The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system's exposure to high carbon and ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Manufacturing Tax Credit, Natural Gas Drilling, Ener1 Chapter 11, Tier 3 Emissions
The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: IgCC Guide, Builders Challenge, SITES, ZHome, Responsible Jewellery Council
The International Code Council and Delmar have released a support publication for the construction industry referencing the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC). The ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Moratorium on Uranium Mining, CDC on Fracking, CSAPR, Lake Tahoe Restoration
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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Keystone XL, Arctic Drilling, Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale, Coal Mines Cleanup
TransCanada Corp said it would undertake a $600 million expansion and extension of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a move designed to show its commitment ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, Gulf Coast Task Force, Chevron Fined
Durban: The world's biggest polluters -China, the United States and India - remain firmly against a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions. The nations ...
JPMorgan, Citi, BofA Slammed Over Coal Investment
JP Morgan Chase, Citi and Bank of America have been branded the worst three "climate killers" in the financial sector over their large-scale investments ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Pact Setback, California Tailpipe Rules, Biofuel Support
The world's richest countries have all but given up on a new climate treaty that would take effect this decade ahead of next month's talks in ...
Tiffany Details Diamond, Metals Purchasing
Tiffany & Co. last year bought over 80 percent of its serialized diamonds either directly from a mine, or from a supplier that only ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Energy Department Probe, Arizona Copper Mining, Cape Wind Setback
President Obama has promised House Republicans investigating the government's aid to to the now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra that a former business executive will lead an independent ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Solar Zones, Ozone Hearing, Carbon Tax
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (pictured left) on Thursday announced a revised plan to establish solar energy zones in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, ...
Adapting NASA Technologies to Environmental and Energy Applications
An often-cited example of how public spending for scientific research can yield commercial dividends is the NASA moon landing mission. The forerunners ...
Luminant to Sue EPA Over Cross-Border Pollution Rule
Luminant – Texas’s largest power generator - has announced the shuttering of facilities across the state, and launched a legal challenge against the regulations it blames ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CA Tweaks Environmental Reviews; Hecla Settles; RGGI All-Time Low
A group of environmentalists has launched a campaign urging EPA administrator Lisa Jackson not to resign, after President Obama ordered the agency to scrap a ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: Benefit Corps, LEED, Maine in an EU First
New research from California, Oregon and Washington shows that homes with LEED or other third-party energy efficiency certifications sell faster and net higher ...
The Energy Storage Hand Gets More Interesting
The cards dealt to the energy storage industry are looking better now than in the past. Here are three of them, ...
Recycling Mining Tailings on Lake Superior
Imagine the “ideal” environmental success story. Perhaps it involves the removal of tons of solid waste from an otherwise pristine location, material ...
Challenges of Water Management within the Mining Industry
Our planet is facing a real crisis in water resources. Climate change and population increases are changing the balance of supply ...
Water News: Consol, LG, Hitachi, Siemens
Consol Energy has selected Veolia Water to design, build and operate a mine water treatment system to be located near Mannington, W.Va.
Veolia ...
Australia to Tax Carbon Emitters at $25 a Ton
Australia will set its carbon price at A$23 (US$24.70) per ton under carbon tax plans unveiled on Sunday.
Outlining a package of measures to ...
