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UN agency proposes greenhouse gas emissions rules for planes
A U.N. panel on Monday proposed long-sought greenhouse gas emissions standards for airliners and cargo planes, drawing praise from the White House and criticism from environmentalists who said they would be too weak to actually slow global warming. The International Civil Aviation Organization said the agreement reached by the agency's environmental panel requires new aircraft designs meet the ...
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EPA shifts greenhouse gas permitting to Texas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas authority over greenhouse gas permitting on Tuesday, ending a long, often bitter battle between the federal agency and the state. EPA's administrator in Dallas, Ron Curry, said he signed the paperwork earlier Tuesday delegating authority over the program to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It comes after months of negotiations ...
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EPA Pushes Procurement of Materials from Recovered Waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revising the list of items designated in the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines’ landscaping products category to promote the use of materials recovered from solid waste. EPA is expanding the description of “compost” from yard trimmings and food waste to include compost from biosolids and manure, but does not limit the designation to specific types of ...
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U.S. EPA Announces Greenhouse Gas Standards for New Power Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced proposed emissions standards for new power plants. According to the EPA, electricity generation represents one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. These rules are one of the important steps the EPA can take to reach the U.S. goal of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Following is a statement ...
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What to look for in the EPA’s forthcoming standards on emissions from light-duty vehicles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are working to finalize rules for light-duty vehicles that could significantly reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. These rules, which could be released this week, will establish new fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light trucks for model years 2017 through ...
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Greenhouse accounts show emissions growth in Australia
The latest National Greenhouse Accounts released this week demonstrate the need to turn Australia's emissions around, Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, said today. 'The underlying trends show Australia's carbon pollution is increasing - particularly in the energy sector,' Senator Wong said. Over the four quarters to the December quarter of 2008, Australia's national ...
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EPA moves ahead on climate change, with or without Congress
U.S. President Barack Obama might have failed to pass any substantive climate change legislation in the outgoing Congress’ otherwise productive final weeks, but that hasn’t stopped some action on climate from occurring before the year’s end. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced last week – on Dec. 23, no less, only a day after the ...
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IEA to release Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map on 10 June in London
Governments have decided collectively that the world needs to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2 oC and international negotiations are engaged to that end. Yet any resulting agreement will not emerge before 2015 and new legal obligations will not begin before 2020. Meanwhile, despite many countries taking new actions, the world is drifting further and further from the ...
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Pelosi Inscrutable on G8 Climate Agreement
BERLIN, Germany (ENS) - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi declined here Monday to say whether the United States would back Germany's strong position on global warming at next week's G8 summit. Pelosi held talks Monday with German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel on the first stop of a European tour she is making, accompanied by a bi-partisan delegation. After ...
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EPA Seeks Small Entity Participation on Upcoming Medium- and Heavy-Duty Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This panel will focus on the agency’s proposed extension of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards beyond model year 2018. ...
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MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA, NHTSA Hold Public Hearing on Proposed Phase 2 Greenhouse Gas Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Trucks
On Tuesday, August 18th, EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)will hold a national public hearing in Long Beach, California, to receive comments on their joint proposed rules, ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles—Phase 2,’’ and also for NHTSA’s Draft Environmental ...
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Innovest alumnus launches new ESG research venture
Former senior researcher at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Fiona Baxter has launched an Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Research venture, Corporate Research Consultants. The company will cover a broad spectrum of clients providing ESG research services to not only institutions, governments and corporations, but also financial planners, advisors and individual investors. 'Financial ...
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Novelis to Invest $32 Million to Expand Aluminum Recycling in Brazil
Novelis, the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum, today announced it will invest approximately $32 million to expand recycling capacity at its aluminum rolling and recycling complex in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. Today's announcement is in addition to a $300-million rolling mill expansion currently under way at the plant and a further $30 million invested over the past two years to expand ...
By Novelis Inc.
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USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program
On October 20, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it is seeking comment on its expansion of the Green Technology Pilot Program. USPTO implemented the Pilot Program on December 8, 2009, permitting patent applications pertaining to green technologies, including greenhouse gas reduction, to be advanced out of turn for examination and reviewed earlier. USPTO intends ...
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USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program
On October 20, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it is seeking comment on its expansion of the Green Technology Pilot Program. 75 Fed. Reg. 64692. USPTO implemented the Pilot Program on December 8, 2009, permitting patent applications pertaining to green technologies, including greenhouse gas reduction, to be advanced out of turn for examination and reviewed ...
By Acta Group
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USPTO expands green technology pilot program
On October 20, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it is seeking comment on its expansion of the Green Technology Pilot Program. 75 Fed. Reg. 64692. USPTO implemented the Pilot Program on December 8, 2009, permitting patent applications pertaining to green technologies, including greenhouse gas reduction, to be advanced out of turn for examination and reviewed ...
By Acta Group
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Ceres releases CA job growth numbers from federal MPG standard; results of new report showing economic benefits of strong MPG
Ceres, a national coalition of investors, Fortune 500 businesses and public-interest organizations, today released California economic impact data found in "More Jobs Per Gallon," an economic analysis by the independent firm Management Information Services, Inc. that quantifies what stronger fuel economy/GHG standards would mean for California and the U.S. economy. The Obama Administration is ...
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Obama administration finalizes emissions standards for light-duty vehicles
The Obama Administration announced the finalized historic fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards for light-duty vehicles. The final program for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and trucks will require an average CO2-level of 163 grams per mile, which is equivalent to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, if all reductions are made through fuel-economy improvements. Today’s action ...
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Deadline extended for GHG Emission Data Transfer Standard consultation
Stakeholders have an extra 30 days to give their feedback on the enquiry draft for Emission Data Transfer – Requirements. You can now submit your feedback up to 4 May 2016. “We have taken the decision to extend the consultation deadline in order to align with the pilot project,” said Michael Berger, Head of Technical Unit at PEFC International. “By doing this, it will ...
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WRI and Mary Robinson foundation formally launch the climate justice dialogue
On September 25, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, formally launching the “Climate Justice Dialogue.” This initiative aims to mobilize political will and creative thinking to shape an equitable and ambitious international climate agreement in 2015—one that ensures ...
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