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/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:34 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69755 The EPA has made a few adjustments to its cross-state air pollution rules (CSAPR) that were signed Tuesday. The adjustments increase budgets in 17 states and ease limits on market-based compliance options. These state-level adjustments vary, and the total budget increases by about 2 percent, Clean Air Watch said. CSAPR is still under a stay, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/policy-enforcement-briefing-csapr-signed-adjusted-new-nukes-keystone-xl-fracking-tax/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68164 The elders of the Haisla First Nation voiced their opposition at the opening of a regulatory joint review hearing in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, on Enbridge’s proposed $5.4 billion Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline for its potential impact on fishing and traditional life on the Pacific Coast. The pipeline would move 525,000 barrels of oil [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/policy-enforcement-briefing-2/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:51:32 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67434 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission unanimously approved a new nuclear reactor design, the Westinghouse AP1000, to be used at two American utilities projects in South Carolina and Georgia. The Westinghouse AP1000 is a 1,154-megawatt that reactor relies more on forces like gravity and natural heat convection and less on pumps, valves and operator actions potentially lessening the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-nrc-approves-reactor-china-tightens-air-pollution-new-zealand-bans-un-offsets/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/2011/12/22/epa-issues-power-plant-mercury-rules/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/22/epa-issues-power-plant-mercury-rules/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:01:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67323 The EPA has issued requirements to control mercury and other toxic air emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants – what it calls the largest unregulated industrial sources of hazardous air pollution in the United States. Under the new, much-delayed rules, power plants will be required to install pollution controls within three years. The regulations [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/22/epa-issues-power-plant-mercury-rules/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-ets-keystone-xl-china-seeks-environmental-investment-mats/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-ets-keystone-xl-china-seeks-environmental-investment-mats/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:00:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67300 European Union lawmakers backed a proposal to allow the EU Commission to  support low carbon investments by withholding 1.4 billion permits from the third phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The vote is the first of three ballots that could lead to a cut of 8 percent in the supply of permits during the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/21/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-ets-keystone-xl-china-seeks-environmental-investment-mats/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/15/epa-approves-three-alternative-refrigerants-to-replace-hfcs/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/15/epa-approves-three-alternative-refrigerants-to-replace-hfcs/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:12:24 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66851 Prodded by companies as diverse as Ben and Jerry’s, General Electric, A.S. Trust & Holdings, and True Manufacturing, the EPA has approved three alternative refrigerants to replace hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in commercial and household freezers through its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program. The EPA ruling has legalized the use of hydrocarbons propane, isobutane, and a [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/15/epa-approves-three-alternative-refrigerants-to-replace-hfcs/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-drops-kyoto-protocol-keystone-pipeline-gulf-lease-sale-mats/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-drops-kyoto-protocol-keystone-pipeline-gulf-lease-sale-mats/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:18:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66750 Canada is evoking its legal right to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, indicating that penalties as high as $14 billion for its failure to meet emissions targets played a role, the Environment Ministry said. The country’s environment minister said that Canada would continue to work with nations on the effort toward an agreement that includes [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/policy-enforcement-briefing-canada-drops-kyoto-protocol-keystone-pipeline-gulf-lease-sale-mats/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/30/texas-childrens-hospital-installs-aircuitys-optinet/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/30/texas-childrens-hospital-installs-aircuitys-optinet/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:15:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65946 Texas Children’s Hospital has installed Aircuity’s ventilation efficiency system OptiNet in its Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute building. The installation helped the building achieve silver-level LEED-certification and the Silver Building Team Award from Building Design & Construction magazine. OptiNet will provide the hospital with projected annual energy savings of over $221,000, Aircuity says. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/30/texas-childrens-hospital-installs-aircuitys-optinet/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-more-epa-delays-solar-trade-dispute-chevron-fined/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-more-epa-delays-solar-trade-dispute-chevron-fined/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:21:23 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65702 The EPA said it will delay proposing the country’s first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, the latest setback for the agency that has struggled to fulfill its ambitious clean air agenda, Reuters reported. The EPA had been required to propose the rules by mid-December as part of a court settlement, but will now ask [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-more-epa-delays-solar-trade-dispute-chevron-fined/feed/ 0