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Daily Environment Report
November 13, 2017 - Number 217
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Leading the News
EPA Senate Sends EPA an Air Chief in Largely Party Line Vote The Senate is sending the EPA an air chief--adding to the agency's team its second confirmed political appointee.
Energy U.S. Energy Regulator Lays Out Plan to Keep At-Risk Coal Online FirstEnergy Corp.'s efforts to save its ailing coal plants are gaining traction with the top U.S. energy regulator.
Motor Vehicles
EPA Parks Portions of Greenhouse Gas Rule fi
ks
The EPA is one step closer to meeting an industry request to repeal portions of greenhouse
gas limits for trucks.
Pesticides Monsanto, DowDuPont Left Hanging as EU Deadlocks on Glyphosate Monsanto, DowDuPont, and other companies that use glyphosate in their pesticide formulations were left frustrated Nov. 9 as the European Union once again failed to make a decision on reauthorizing the chemical.
Pesticides No Link Between Roundup and Cancer, Study Finds A long-term survey of tens of thousands of U.S. farmers found no significant link between cancer and exposure to glyphosate, best known as the main ingredient in Monsanto Co.'s Roundup herbicide.
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News
Air Pollution
Judges Skeptic, W ' lj Tv
;V<e Time on Kiln Emissions
The EPA's need for two extra years to review its toxic pollution standards for brick kilns met
with skepticism from federal judges.
Air Pollution Los Angeles Emissions Trading Plan Chanry 'muffed Out by Court Southern California air quality officials will have to revisit changes to a regional pollution credit trading program approved in 2015, a state court said.
Asbestos F <z <' h-ared of Asbes ' * I iims Fr< u, I Cv -v ,ke Repair Ford Motor Co. won dismissal of lung cancer claims by the widow of a man allegedly exposed to asbestos while working on car brakes.
Chemicals
Taiwan Weii
aadening Oversight of Industrial Chemicals
Taiwan will revise its federal law to broaden controls on chemicals if a measure approved by
the Cabinet Nov. 9 is enacted.
Climate Change Deutsche Bank's Tool Maps Climate-Change Investment Risks Deutsche Bank AG's asset-management unit is using a detailed map to determine where natural disasters spawned by climate change may pose the greatest risks to its investment portfolios.
Coal Mining
One of the Worl1' Hi jgest Miners Is About
il Free
Just five years ago it would have been almost unthinkable that one of the world's biggest
mining companies would not dig any coal. It's now likely to become a reality.
Energy China's Appetite for U.S. Energy Falls Short of Binding Deals China showed its appetite for big ticket investments in U.S. energy production and exports during President Donald Trump's visit, but left the event with almost no binding deals.
Energy West Virginia Gets China Energy Deal That Dwarfs State's GDP West Virginia was the biggest recipient of the $250 billion of investments signed during President Donald Trump's visit to China.
Environmental Claims Top Canada Court to Hear Appeal on Abandoned Oil Well Decision The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that allows bankrupt oil and gas companies to hand off the cost of cleanup to government authorities in order to maximize money for creditors.
International Climate
EU Reac
al to Overhaul World's Largest Carbon Market
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European Union negotiators agreed to overhaul the region's cap-and-trade program, approving a plan to bolster carbon prices and adjust the emissions market to more ambitious climate goals in the next decade.
Motor Vehicles Senate Tax Bill Bucks House, Keeps Electric Vehicle Credit The Senate's broad rewrite of the nation's tax code rejects a move by House Republicans to eliminate a $7,500 tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases, two members of the tax-writing committee said.
Oil & Gas Legislation to Allow Drilling in Arctic Refuge Unveiled in Senate Legislation to allow oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is scheduled for action on Nov. 15 by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Oil & Gas Williams Cleared to Resume Work on $3 Billion Gas Pipeline Williams Partners LP was cleared by a federal court to resume construction on a $3 billion pipeline that will help shuttle shale gas across the eastern U.S.
Renewable Energy As Rooftop-Solar Growth Ebbs, Installers Chase Profitability There's long been a Catch-22 about residential solar: Despite staggering market demand, it's been hard to make money doing it. Until now.
Renewable Energy Wind Energy Feels the Force of World Markets The prevailing wind has dramatically changed for the world's biggest maker of the swooshing blades that dot landscapes from Argentina to Mongolia.
Vehicle Fuels U.S. Sets Duties on Argentine Biodiesel as Final Decision Looms The U.S. set final import duties on biodiesel from Indonesia and Argentina of as much as 72.28 percent, after concluding that government subsidies are giving an unfair advantage to producers in those countries.
Water Pollution l),C. Claim ` i iht to Prevent Sewer Backups from Mislabeled Wipes Washington, D.C., has the right to try preventing sewer backups caused by disposable wipes mislabeled as flushable, the District said in a court filing defending its labeling rules and disputing claims by manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Corp.
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