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Daily Environment Report
July 26, 2017-Number 142
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Leading the News
Superfund Pruitt to Tap Private Sector to Hasten Superfund Cleanups EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is embracing public-private partnerships and setting aggressive agency deadlines to move languishing Superfund site cleanups forward.
News
Biofuels
Biofuel Subsidi
d in New House Legislation
Biofuel subsidy programs at the Agriculture Department would be axed in a bill set for
introduction in the House.
Budget Government Shutdown Odds Grow With Border Wall Funding Bill By Erik Wasson and Roxana Tiron: House Republicans this week are increasing the possibility of a government shutdown in October by moving forward with a $788 billion spending bill that complies with President Donald Trump's demands to boost the military, reduce clean-energy programs and fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Canada Canada Business Warns Trudeau on Rising Costs, Regulations Canada's climate-change plan and other government measures are heaping costs on businesses and pushing them to a breaking point, the Chamber of Commerce says in a warning to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Compliance Programs
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son to U.S. Regulators Is Preparing Guilty Plea A Volkswagen AG compliance executive charged in the company's emissions-cheating scandal is preparing to plead guilty.
Contribution Houston Caterer Can't Foil Superfund Disposal Claim A Houston catering company remains on the hook for a Superfund contribution claim over contamination at an oil recovery facility, the Southern District of Texas ruled (USOR Site PRP Grp. v. A&M Contractors, Inc., 2017 BL 254960, S.D. Tex., No. 14-CV-2441, 7/21/17).
Disclosure Most Companies Still Struggle With Source of Conflict Minerals Companies trying to make sure minerals in computer chips, jewelry, and other products don't fuel conflict in Africa still struggle with identifying their source.
Drinking Water Saint-Gobain to Fund $20 Million Water Line in Vermont Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp, will fund a $20 million water line extension for approximately 200 Vermont homes, settling claims that a shuttered factory leached a chemical into area wells.
Emissions Trading California Regulators Next Up With Cap and Trade Bill Signed California regulators now need to set new carbon dioxide emissions limits for the coming years after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law legislation renewing the state's greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program another 10 years.
Energy Connecticut Keeps Nuclear Subsidy Debate Alive with State Review Connecticut's governor ordered a study into the "economic viability" of the state's sole nuclear power plant after legislators failed to pass legislation intended to shore up its profitability.
Energy Dead Bodies Piling Up as Mexico's Stolen-Fuel Market Booms Buying stolen gasoline in the central Mexican state of Puebla is easy. Pull off the main highway into a busy parking lot, and the black marketeers are waiting in pickup trucks loaded with jerrycans. They'll siphon the fuel into your tank--boasting as they do that unlike a lot of the country's regular gas stations, they don't cheat customers.
Energy Energy Restrictions Pass House as Part of New Sanctions Bill U.S. companies may face new restrictions on participating in global energy projects with Russian investment as part of the passage of a broad sanctions package in the House July 25.
Energy
Rick Perry Punked into Fake Interview v
ssian `Jerky Boys'
Energy Secretary Rick Perry thought he was talking about cyberhacking and a biofuel
breakthrough in a call with Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman. Alas, the 22-minute
phone call was actually conducted with Russian pranksters.
Mergers and Acquisitions
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DuPont Gets Boost From Farmers With Dow Merger Set to Close DuPont Co.'s agriculture operations gave a boost to second-quarter earnings, buoying prospects for the company's largest business ahead of the planned completion next month of the historic $75 billion merger with Dow Chemical Co.
Natural Gas Appalachian States Look Past Coal, Ask Trump to Aid Natural Gas Having lost tens of thousands of coal mining jobs to the rise in natural gas, several states have decided if you can't beat them, join them.
Oil & Gas America's Biggest Oil Port Looks to Be Hub for Shale Exports The biggest U.S. oil-import hub wants to grab a piece of surging North American crude exports.
Oil & Gas
Petronas Dr
an to Build $27 Billion Canada LNG Terminal
Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd abandoned its long-stalled plans to build a $27 billion
liquefied natural gas export terminal on Canada's west coast, citing changes in market
conditions.
Pesticides
Democrats Seek Another Bipartisan Push on Toxics to B
ticide
Democratic lawmakers are hoping to re-establish last year's bipartisan push in Congress for
chemical oversight reform to ban a common agricultural insecticide, as action to restrict the
bug killer stalls in the Trump administration's EPA.
Pesticides Scientists Say They W >> ' ? u ' ut of Pesticide Drift Research Farmers could have had better information on handling a new herbicide linked to widespread crop damage in the South and Midwest, but Monsanto Co. limited the scope of research on the pesticide, according to a pair of agricultural scientists.
Renewable Energy SunEdison Sets Bankruptcy Exit with Nothing for Shareholders SunEdison Inc. won final approval for a bankruptcy plan that will leave what was once the world's largest renewable-energy firm as a shell of its former self, with nothing for shareholders whose investment had been worth about $10 billion.
Superfund Chemical Solvent's Risks Drive Small Firms to Innovate New concerns about the potential health effects of a common chemical solvent are spurring monitoring innovations--and in the process letting small environmental consulting firms compete with industry giants.
Taxes
Little Change in Ra
aected as China Implements Green Tax
Tax rates aren't likely to see much change as China moves to fully implement its
Environmental Protection Tax Law, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 2018. Major changes are
not expected at first in the amount of taxes companies will have to pay for emissions
compared to a previous fee-based system, analysts said, although the exact rates have not
been released.
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Special Report
Coal-Fired Power Plants Hopes Rest on Private Firms for Legacy Coal Cleanup The defining landmark in Hazleton, Pa., when John Quigley was growing up in the 1960s was a giant pile of black, crumbly coal waste that had been there for as long as anyone could remember. Taller than a 20-story building, the heap covered an area the size of four football fields and even had its own name: the Jeansville Coal Bank.
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