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European Union negotiators provisionally agreed September 28 to strengthen emission standards for motorcycles, scooters, and some categories of off-road vehicles sold in the region after 2014
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA
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May 15 2011
A ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council ended May 12 with a final declaration that urged unilateral action by Arctic countries to limit black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers
On January 6, China's Finance Ministry announced it would both consider a carbon tax being introduced by 2015 and raise the exemption threshold as applied to the windfall tax imposed on oil producers
The University of California, Berkeley, unveiled April 2 a study concluding that the increased use of fertilizers over the last 50 years is responsible for a significant rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide
China’s National Development and Reform Commissions Energy Research Institute and the Institute of Fiscal Science at the Ministry of Finance released a report January 5 that showed that a carbon tax of $1.58 per metric ton under consideration by the nation’s Ministry of Finance is lower than previously floated amounts because of economic pressures
During remarks at a Geothermal Energy Association forum May 23, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) said that he may be amenable to congressional preemption of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in exchange for Republican support of his Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 (S. 2146) or another strong CES, noting that he preferred a congressional solution to emissions reductions, as such an approach could be more economically efficient and allow utilities more discretion to determine how they want to pursue reductions
On February 3, Canada’ Environment Minister revealed the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring that will increase monitoring of activities in Canada's oil sands with testing of air, biodiversity, water, and wildlife
