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Daily Environment Report
August 18, 2017 - Number 159
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Leading the News
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.
Chemicals Potential Health Effects of Gas Additives Divide EPA Board EPA scientists could not definitively conclude this week whether two widely-used gasoline additives cause health problems, delaying potential regulation until the agency can address questions in its research.
News
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 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.
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Chemicals
Panel to Bui
Jeas to Ease Chemical Data Requirements
A panel that included manufacturers agreed Aug. 17 to flesh out four ideas to simplify EPA
requirements companies face when providing information about chemicals in waste streams
they recycle.
Contribution Lloyd's of London Willamette River Contribution Claims Sunk Lloyd's of London can't recoup from a group of insurers for the cleanup of a property on the banks of the Willamette River, an Oregon appeals court ruled (Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London v. Mass. Bonding & Ins. Co., 2017 BL 286439, Or. Ct. App., No. A156649, 8/16/17).
Disclosure Most Companies Cautious When Talking About Conflict Minerals Companies such as Intel Corp., Kemet Corp., and Texas Instruments Inc. remain among a very small group that can say minerals in their supply chains don't fund conflict in Africa, an analysis of this year's regulatory filings found.
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 Swi u hbxhing 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 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.
Oceans New York Sues EPA to Stop Waste Dump in Long Island Sound New York sued the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to stop a plan to dump tens of millions of cubic yards of dredged sediments at a site in eastern Long Island Sound.
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
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agreed to take a sizable stake.
Oil & Gas
Enbridge Pipeline Gets Environmen!
linnesota
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 Gi ' 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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