February 18, 2010
|
|
Environment Management Newsletter February 18, 2010 |
|---|
  |
|---|
| This Week´s Featured News Stories |
|---|
 |
Jobs bill could fuel controversial US biodiesel business
The controversial US biodiesel industry could get a major boost from Congress if a draft bill released this week makes it to the president`s desk. The draft bill proposes the reintroduction of the tax credit of $1 per gallon on alternative fuels which lapsed last year, and would deny a tax credit on so-called `black liquor` - a form of fuels derived from making pulp or paper. According to Reuters reports, companies have previsouly qualified for the tax break unfairly by mixing `black liquor` with small amounts of biodiesel. The biodiesel tax incentive, which was created in 2004 ... |
||||
 |
Winter Olympic medals: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Green
Winning athletes at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver this week will be able to bask in the glow of double glory - athletic success combined with environmental kudos. The organisers of the Winter Olympics may have angered environmental group by trucking in snow from over a hundred miles away in an attempt to tackle the inclement weather, but at least the medals handed out to successful competitors have been designed with the environment in mind. According to the firm that secured the prestigous deal to make the models, Vancouver-based mining and metals company ... |
||||
| |||||
|
|||||
| Advertise in this Newsletter For information on advertising in this newsletter, contact us or call USA 1-888-244-5029 / Europe +34 91 395 2969. |
