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Energy and Climate Report
September 08, 2017 - Number 174
Climate Policy
Merkel Warned That Failure to Hit Climate Goal May H
'many
Chancellor Angela Merkel's ambition to lead Europe's fight against global warming is at risk
of backfiring and tarnishing Germany's climate credentials, according to researchers.
Congress EPA Bill Restoring Trump Cuts Mears House Passage The EPA would see its budget trimmed but avoid the deep 31 percent spending cut sought by President Donald Trump in fiscal year 2018 under a spending bill the House expects to wrap up the week of Sept. 11.
Dumping/Countervailing Duties
Chinese Solar Products to Fa
rered Anti-Subsidy Duties
Imports of solar products from China will, for the most part, face lower countervailing duties,
the Court of International Trade affirmed Sept 8 (Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co. v. United
States, Ct. Int'l Trade, No. 15-00068, 9/8/17).
EPA ip Plans to Cut EPA Programs Could Hurt Post-Storm Rebuilding
Residents of Florida and other states in the path of Hurricane Irma may have a rude awakening after the winds die down and the rain and storm surge stop.
Emergency Response U.K. Amec Sees Hurricane Changing Design of U.S. Chemical Plant Amec Foster Wheeler Plc, the U.K. company helping to build a $604 million methanol plant for Yuhuang Chemical Inc. in Louisiana, expects the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey to alter the planning and design of chemical facilities in regions at risk from natural catastrophes.
Emissions Trading Carbon Allowance Prices Jump as Cap to Tighten in Northeast Power companies saw a 72 percent jump in the price of greenhouse gas emissions allowances in the first auction after the Northeast's trading program announced plans to ratchet down the emissions cap.
Emissions Trading
New Jersey Eyes Rejoining Northea!
rbon Trading Program
New Jersey is on the cusp of rejoining the Northeastern greenhouse gas trading program it
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spurned in 2011, which could be a boon for power companies such as Consolidated Edison Inc. and Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. that have utilities across the region.
Energy
Turf Bat
ms as House Energy Leaders Plan DOE Overhaul
Plans by a key House Republican to retool the Energy Department's core functions are in for
a turf battle.
Oil & Gas Montana Rule on Radioactive Oil Waste Disposal Criticized as Weak Oil and gas companies in the Bakken Formation of western North Dakota routinely truck their radioactive drilling waste to a disposal facility roughly three hours away in Montana.
Water Resources
Florh
rgest Lake Likely to Flood Over Dike From Irma
Hurricane Irma could cause a dike holding back Florida's largest lake to spill over, spreading
rock and debris from three construction sites at the site, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
official said.
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