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Energy and Climate Report
July 05, 2017-Number 128
Air Pollution
World's Costliest Gas Clouding China's Quest for Bluer Skies China has promised to make its skies blue again, but having some of the world's mostexpensive natural gas isn't helping.
Biofuels U.S. Favors Midwest Corn Farmers in Proposed Biofuels Quotas The Trump administration proposed a requirement that U.S. refiners use 15 billion gallons of conventional renewable fuels in 2018, while lowering targets for advanced alternatives that oil refiners have described as unattainable.
Climate Policy China Seen Scaling Back Carbon Market After Trump's Paris Move China may remove industries including steel from the national carbon market it plans to start this year because President Donald Trump wants to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate deal.
Climate Policy G-20 Ire On Paris Withdrawal Unlikely to Affect Trump Plans Leaders of Group of 20 nations, outspoken in their opposition to President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, won't be able to do much about it at this week's summit in Hamburg, Germany, business representatives and an academic told Bloomberg BNA.
EPA Petroleum Institute Lawyer Picked fc ' * < <. I msel A lawyer picked to be one of the EPA's senior attorneys says he is learning about areas of the agency that he "did not touch" during his lobbying experience for an oil and natural gas trade association.
Energy
G-20's Financing of Fossil Fuels Outwei
mewables, Study Says
Fossil fuels received four times more than clean energy in public financing from Group of 20
member countries, according to a report by environmental groups that urged more financing
be directed to renewables to address climate change.
Energy Germany's Russian Gas Fix Raises Alarm in Merk<
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Hidden by pine forests near the deserted site of what was once East Germany's biggest nuclear reactor, two shiny pipelines emerge from the Baltic Sea to mark the spot where Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to secure the country's energy future.
Energy Merkel's Germany Won't Offer Fa ' r from Dirtiest Fossil - nM German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out an abrupt phase-out from the dirtiest fossil fuel used to generate power, even as the nation struggles to meet its climate targets.
Mergers and Acquisitions Halliburton Buys Summit to Fill Hole in Oil-Service Offerings Halliburton Co. acquired Summit ESP LLC, giving the world's biggest fracking services provider much-needed help in a key area of its oil services portfolio. Terms were not disclosed.
Motor Vehicles
New Zealand Exempts Ro
r Heavy Electric Vehicles
New Zealand is exempting heavy electric vehicles from road use charges, a move that could
save some truck drivers thousands of dollars a year.
Motor Vehicles Volvo Vaults to Volts, Planning to Pull Plug on Gasoline Engines As it turns out, news of the death of the internal combustion engine may not be very exaggerated after all.
Oil & Gas Methane Leak Rule in Effect Can't Be Halted, Lawsuit Says The Interior Department can't halt measures to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas wells on public lands six months after they took effect, the attorneys general of California and New Mexico said in a lawsuit.
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