The California Air Resources Board (ARB) Extends the Deadline for Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Two-Month Grace Period for Operators Subject to 1 October 2010 Verification Deadline.
Entries by Neno Duplan
EPA Calls for Stricter Drinking-Water Standards
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to tighten standards for four water contaminants that can cause cancer as part of a new strategy to toughen drinking-water regulation.
EPA said it will start rulemakings to revise standards for two contaminants used in industrial or textile processing, tetracholorethylene and trichloroethylene, within the year. The EPA will follow that rulemaking by setting stricter standards for epichlorohydrin and acrylamide, which can contaminate drinking water through the water-treatment process.
EPA Delays Start of New Rules on Emissions
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the agency would delay subjecting large greenhouse-gas emitters such as power plants and crude-oil refiners to new regulations until 2011, and would raise the threshold for using the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. This decision will be welcomed by the industry but […]
Congress to investigate hydraulic fracturing for concerns about potential drinking-water contamination
WSJ reported today that concerns about potential drinking-water contamination are prompting Congress to investigate hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique that has helped boost U.S. natural-gas production. Hydrofracturing has been used by the oil industry for decades but has become far more common in recent years as companies discovered large new gas fields in the […]
Nuclear Industry Revival
This week, President Obama announced $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to build two new reactors at a nuclear power plant in Georgia, signaling the first wave of new nuclear plants in the U.S. in more than three decades. “This is only the beginning,” he said. “My budget proposes tripling the loan guarantees we provide […]
Focus on Water: Who will disclose to CDP Water Disclosure?
Water is the bigger problem than air for the mankind! What I have noticed missing from the dialogues on climate change is discussion on water and water quality as it relates to carbon emissions.
California Passes $11B Water Deal
California passed a bill to fix our water infrastructure. This is the most comprehensive water infrastructure package in the history of California. And this is an $11 billion package that will be leveraged against an additional $30 billion that will be asked by the state’s voters next November in bonds to help finance new infrastructure […]
Environmental Data Management
Data published by the Environmental Business Journal indicate that the U.S. environmental industry generated cumulative revenues of about $300 billion dollars in 2007. The industry grew over 5 percent, its second consecutive year of growth greater than 5 percent and, by many indicators, one of its best years ever. Although such numbers would seem to […]