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Energy and Climate Report
August 17, 2017 - Number 159
Air Pollution
China's Blue Skies Target May Make for Winter Gas Crunch Chinese President Xi Jinping's government beat expectations in its drive to help clear the nation's notoriously smoggy skies by burning less coal and oil in favor of cleaner natural gas.
Air Pollution
EPA to Revisit Rules Cutting Carbon Emissions fr
cks
The EPA will re-examine Obama-era rules designed to slash carbon-dioxide emissions from
tractor-trailers, school buses and other heavy-duty vehicles following complaints from
industry groups.
Air Pollution Saudi Arabia Calls for Pollution Monitors on Industrial Chimneys Saudi Arabia has ordered about 7,000 industrial plants to install networked monitoring systems to measure greenhouse gas emissions in real-time as part of its effort to reduce air pollution and improve public health, according to the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture.
Energy
An Eclipse Is What the U.S. Power Sect
en Waiting For
Turns out the solar eclipse, set to plunge parts of the U.S. into total darkness on Aug. 21, will
offer exactly what the power sector's been looking for: a completely predictable stage for
experiments.
Energy China's Menswear Maker Swaps Stitching for Lithium Batteries Ten years ago, Ningbo Shanshan Co. was primarily a maker of menswear turning out shirts, casual wear and business suits from its base of Ningbo, an industrial hub in China's Zhejiang province. Not anymore.
Energy How a Harley-Riding Ex-Ally of Villains Is Leading a Nuke Revolt In the basement of a three-story house in a leafy neighborhood in Tokyo, about 40 lawyers crowded together, plotting against Japan's massive nuclear power industry.
Enforcement Maersk Oil Faces Danish Chemical Breach Prosecution
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Denmark has taken the unusual step of initiating legal action against the Copenhagen-based multinational Maersk Oil for environmental breaches relating to modifications to a chemical used in oil extraction.
Oil & Gas Blackstone's New Pipeline Asset Is Wreaking Environmental Havoc In the energy business, it's one of the biggest projects going today: construction of a 710mile pipeline to transport natural gas from America's most prolific shale deposit in the eastern U.S. to consumers in the Midwest and Canada. Even Blackstone Group LP has agreed to take a sizable stake.
Oil & Gas Enbridge Pipeline Gets Environmental OK From Minnesota Rejecting the Minnesota portion of an Enbridge Inc. proposed $5.8 billion pipeline would adversely affect the future adequacy and reliability of the state's energy supply, the Minnesota Commerce Department said Aug. 17 .
Renewable Energy 1 ` a to Outfit 50 Home Depot Stores with Solar Panels
General Electric Co.'s Current unit and Tesla Inc. will install solar systems on 50 Home Depot Inc. stores and sell the power output to the retailer.
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