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Insurance Companies’ Fossil Fuel Investments a ‘Potential $459 Billion Liability’

May 25, 2016May 24, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The insurance industry’s massive investments in fossil fuel companies — to the tune of $459 billion — represents a risky bet as demand for coal, oil and gas drops and renewable energy gains momentum, according to a Ceres report released yesterday. Insurance groups Ameriprise (12.4 percent), Lincoln National (11.8 percent) ... Read more »

Is Recycled Oilfield Water Safe for Crop Irrigation?

January 19, 2016January 18, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Some 50,000 acre feet of recycled oilfield wastewater is used to irrigate about 90,000 acres of crops in California’s Central Valley, one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions. But is this produced water safe for use on food crops? A newly formed panel aims to answer this question. “There ... Read more »

US Reps to Oil Giants: Did You Fund Climate Change Denial?

December 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CEOs of major fossil fuel companies — including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Peabody Energy and BP — have received letters from a group of US congress people asking them if they were involved in efforts to “spread disinformation about climate science.” The letter, signed by 45 Democratic representatives, follows a ... Read more »

Exxon, BP, 10 Others Pay $3.5M, Clean Up Hazardous Waste at Superfund Site

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

ExxonMobil, BP, DuPont and Veolia are among the 12 private parties that will pay more than $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the EPA related to the Metro Container Superfund Site in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The 12 settling parties will pay an estimated $2.5 million for the investigation and ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: PG&E, Eaton, Camfil, Ingenium, Chevron

September 3, 2015September 2, 2015 by Karen Henry

PG&E: The utility has named Melissa Lavinson chief sustainability officer. This is an expansion of her existing role as vice president of federal affairs. She has been with PG&E since 1997. Eaton: The power management company has named Pavan Pattada (pictured) as president of the North America vehicle group. He ... Read more »

Chevron Selects Locus Technologies’ EIM Software

February 10, 2015February 10, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron Environmental Management Company, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has extended its relationship with the Locus Technologies to include contract renewal as well as distinguishing Locus’ Environmental Information Management (EIM) software as the system of record for managing environmental-based analytical lab and field data. Chevron selected Locus EIM system as its preferred ... Read more »

Chevron Earns Fracking Center Certification

September 19, 2014September 18, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron Appalachia is the first company to complete the Center for Sustainable Shale Development’s evaluation and verification process. CSSD is a collaborative established last year between Chevron, Shell and other natural gas companies and environmental groups to set fracking standards. Chevron earned full CSSD certification against all 15 of the ... Read more »

Chevron’s Alternative Fuels Foray Fails

September 18, 2014September 18, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron says its attempts at producing profitable, commercial-scale alternative fuels have failed. The oil company has spent “significant sums” and unsuccessfully evaluated more than 100 kinds of feedstock and 50 techniques for turning them into fuel, Bloomberg reports. “The smartest minds in my company and others haven’t yet cracked the ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Volvo, Renault-Nissan, Mitsubishi, Greenlots, BMW

August 19, 2014August 18, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Volvo Trucks’ 2016 VN series highway tractors will offer greater fuel savings compared with previous generation models. Sculpting of airflow around the exterior and underneath the hood improves fuel efficiency by up to 3.5 percent, and Volvo’s new XE-Adaptive Gearing and Torque Management options can provide fuel efficiency improvements of ... Read more »

Chevron Waste-to-Energy Plant to Save $27M

May 16, 2014May 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chevron Energy Solutions will design and build a waste-to-energy plant at Broward County, Fla.’s wastewater treatment facility. The project, which will generate electricity from fats, oils and grease (FOG), is expected to generate almost 2MW of power, reduce electricity usage by over 30 percent and save the county nearly $27 ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron at Supreme Court, Wind PTC, Chemical Storage Bill

April 4, 2014April 4, 2014 by Tamar Wilner

The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday agreed to hear Chevron Corp’s appeal of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s ruling, which found that the province is a proper jurisdiction for Ecuadorean villagers to pursue their $9.51 billion lawsuit for Amazon jungle pollution. The EPA failed to disclose cancer risks to volunteers used in ... Read more »

Water District Reaches Milestone

March 26, 2014March 26, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Drought-stricken California is also the home of a wastewater recycling plant that reached a significant milestone. The West Basin Municipal Water District passed 150 billion gallons of total recycled water production at its Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo. The district said that amount of water would ... Read more »

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