Oil & Gas
Policy and Enforcement Briefing: Regulation Repeals, Exxon in the Arctic, Wind Energy
The leadership of the GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives told its membership that it will seek to repeal or delay ...
Policy & Compliance Briefing: PNM Penalty, Efficient Refrigerators, Chemical Secrecy
A federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against BP alleging financial losses after last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday allowed most ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Raw Material Reporting, XL Go-Ahead, ConocoPhillips Sued
The EPA on Thursday said it would delay reporting rules that will require manufacturers and power plants to submit information on ...
Water Week News: Global Water Tool, Paper’s Footprint, UNEP Warning
Here are the top stories to emerge so far from World Water Week in Stockholm.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has ...
R&D Briefing: GE, New Energy Technologies and Aquatech
GE has launched its 1-megawatt Waukesha APG1000 gas engine (pictured), which can utilize a broader variety of biogases, including those from landfills, wastewater treatment plants and agricultural ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Nuclear Fears, Strange Bedfellows, EPA Review
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed a final version of its regulatory review plan on Tuesday to comply with President Barack Obama's ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Renewable Auctions, Oil Sands Protests, Canada Coal Rules
The California Public Utilities Commission has given unanimous approval to the Renewable Auction Mechanism (RAM), a program under which developers will bid ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: $3m for Hazmat Spill, Offshore Wind, Carrier and Trane Warning on HCFC-22
Klaus Genssler, chief operating officer of U.S. Oil Recovery L.P., has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a Harris County, Texas, lawsuit. The ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Port Emissions, Lake Tahoe, PA Bans Clean Energy Contracts
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris settled with seven companies operating terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach over alleged diesel emission standards ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: UN Insurance Principles, WEEE, Tesco Fuel
The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative held its fourth of seven meetings last week in Auckland in an effort to develop sustainability ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Drillers Win Exemption Case, Smog Rule on the Way
A rule revising the Land Disposal Restriction treatment standard for carbamate wastes went into effect on Aug. 12, 2011, the EPA ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: DuPont Order, E-Waste Ban Expanded, Fracking Report Issued
The Energy Department’s natural gas advisory subcommittee has released its report on hydrofracking, saying that the industry might win public trust by overhauling ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: Vehicle Disposal, E-Waste Strategy, Utility Calculating EPA Costs
The Ontario Automotive Recyclers Association is calling for an industry-led environmental management system for recycling and disposing of old vehicles, the Record ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Imperial Sugar, Wetlands Fill, Gas Storage
Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division says Imperial Sugar will pay $80,000 to settle charges that the company violated state clean ...
National Gypsum Installs 3.4 MW CHP Project
Recycled Energy Development and National Gypsum Company have announced the development of a natural gas-fueled, combined heat and power project at NGC’s Burlington, N.J. facility.
The project, ...
Compliance & Standards Briefing: Ultra-Low Sulfur Coal, Water and LEED, PV and WEEE
Ameren Missouri, an electric and gas provider, said that it will comply with the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule by entering into a long-term ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Truck Fuel Standards, Air Rules under Fire
President Obama is expected to announce new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks tomorrow at Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Va., the ...
Liquefied Natural Gas Boom Predicted
The liquefied natural gas industry can expect a ten-year global investment high of $26 billion per year by 2015, according to a report ...
Oil Prices Plunge in Wake of S&P Downgrading
The price of oil fell to its lowest point in over eight months after Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. credit rating ...
Army Introduces Fuel Tracking Software
The U.S. Army is introducing software to track where its fuel goes in the field.
The Tactical Fuel Manager program cost the Defense Department $4 million. The ...
