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Automakers to Join Biden on Emission Cuts, EV Sales Goals

The Biden administration plans to announce new limits on greenhouse gas auto emissions and new electric-vehicle sales targets at an event with Detroit automakers at the White House on Aug. 5, according to several people familiar with the matter.

August 4, 2021
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PFG, Dana Both Advance Sustainability Measures

A leading private carrier and a tier one supplier recently each announced additional sustainability goals.

July 12, 2021
GovernmentBusinessFuel

Congress Reinstates Obama Methane Rule for Oil, Gas Wells

The House voted June 25 to rescind a Trump-era rule blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from directly limiting oil industry emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, a move that would restore requirements imposed by the Obama administration while freeing the agency to craft new more stringent rules for the oil and gas industry.

June 25, 2021
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyFuel

Cargill Backs Cow Masks to Trap Methane Burps

Agriculture giant Cargill Inc. will start selling methane-absorbing wearable devices for cows, putting its support behind an experimental technology that could help the industry cut greenhouse gas emissions.

June 1, 2021
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Biden Moves to Restore California’s Power to Fight Vehicle Pollution

The Biden administration on April 26 took a key step toward restoring California’s power to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and overturn a Trump-era policy that pitted the federal government against a state seeking to eventually ban conventional gas-powered cars.

April 26, 2021
GovernmentBusinessSafety

CARB Ahead of EPA in Bid to Establish NOx Rule for Heavy Trucks

More than a year ago, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials announced the agency’s Cleaner Trucks Initiative, an effort to work closely with the California Air Resources Board to develop a more stringent “harmonized” nitrogen oxide-emissions rule for heavy trucks.

January 23, 2020
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Report Urges Trucking Regulators to Evaluate Fuel-Efficiency, GHG Emissions Standards

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences urges federal regulators to conduct an “interim evaluation” of the federal medium- and heavy-duty truck Phase 2 greenhouse gas and economy rule with an eye toward more stringent standards.

October 24, 2019
GovernmentBusinessFuel

Trump Plans to End Methane Curbs That Oil Companies Want to Keep

The Trump administration is readying a plan to end direct federal regulation of methane leaks from oil and gas facilities, even as some energy companies insist they don’t want the relief.

August 14, 2019
Business

Panama Canal Does Some Good for Environment While Upending Historic Trade Routes

Fresh from a $5.25 billion, nine-year expansion that’s upending decades-old trade routes, it turns out the Panama Canal is also doing a little good for the planet.

July 7, 2017
Business

New Rule Might Force Global Shipping Industry to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The trillion-dollar global shipping industry may soon be forced to curb greenhouse gas emissions under new rules backed by the European Union and China.

July 7, 2017