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Supreme Court Strikes Down Mercury Pollution Rule

Supreme Court Strikes Down Mercury Pollution Rule

The US Supreme Court struck down the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the agency failed to take into account the costs the rule would impose on utilities. Industry groups said the pollution regulation would costs $9.6 billion annually. The National Mining Association, which, ... Read more »
Secure Supply Chain Key to Sustainable Manufacturing

Secure Supply Chain Key to Sustainable Manufacturing

A reliable, secure supply chain for minerals and metals is vital to keeping US manufacturing competitive and sustainable, write the National Mining Association’s Hal Quinn and the Reshoring Initiative’s Harry Moser in an article on Material Handling & Logistics. The authors cite a survey of manufacturing executives, commissioned by the NMA, ... Read more »
Carbon Pollution Rule Draws Praise, Criticism

Carbon Pollution Rule Draws Praise, Criticism

Unilever, VF Corporation, Mars and 125 other companies have sent letters supporting the EPA’s proposed carbon pollution rule for existing power plants to the Obama Administration and to Senate and House majority and minority leaders. Sustainability advocacy nonprofit Ceres coordinated the letters, which were also signed by 49 investors managing ... Read more »
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: NY Gas Reserve, Tesla Fire, Coal Protest

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: NY Gas Reserve, Tesla Fire, Coal Protest

New York plans to create a gasoline reserve holding three million gallons of fuel, in an effort to avoid long lines at gas stations such as those seen after Hurricane Sandy, the New York Times reports. The $10 million pilot program would be the first state-owned gasoline reserve in the ... Read more »
Power Plant Carbon Emissions Limits Proposed

Power Plant Carbon Emissions Limits Proposed

New large gas-fired power plants would be limited to 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour and new small gas-fired turbines to 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour under the EPA’s proposed Clean Air Act standards to cut carbon pollution proposed today. New coal-fired units would need ... Read more »
Coal Industry Attacks Climate Plan

Coal Industry Attacks Climate Plan

President Barack Obama’s climate plan drew praise from renewable energy companies and criticism from the coal industry, which says the new rules to cut carbon pollution at new and existing power plants will hurt the economy and increase electricity prices. The National Mining Association president and CEO Hal Quinn warned ... Read more »
Manufacturers ‘Freaked Out’ about Climate Guidelines

Manufacturers ‘Freaked Out’ about Climate Guidelines

Manufacturers are “very freaked out” by new climate change standards that President Obama will reportedly issue in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reports. According to the news agency, Obama will set guidelines that requires all federal agencies to consider the effects of major projects on air, water and soil pollution. Lobbyists ... Read more »


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