Search results
Order by most recent / most popular / relevance
Results: 11-20 of 30
EU fails to label Canadian crude
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- February 26 2012
A European Commission committee failed February 23 to approve a proposal to label crude oil from Canada’s oil sands as 22.3 percent more polluting than conventional crude
NA Leaders’ Summit
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, Mexico, USA
- -
- April 8 2012
President Obama hosted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderone April 2 for the North American Leaders’ Summit
WCI offsets review and approval
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- February 26 2012
The Western Climate Initiative released final recommendations February 22 for the review and approval of greenhouse gas emissions offset projects under a regional emissions trading program involving California and four Canadian provinces
RGGI to expire unsold allowances
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- January 29 2012
On January 17, in announcing its March 14 auction, seven of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s nine states said they will retire 87 million carbon dioxide emissions allowances that went unsold during the past six auctions
NV Governor opposes Keystone
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- September 8 2011
Citing water concerns, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman (R) sent letters August 31 to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging them to deny a permit for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas
NE Keystone development
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- November 6 2011
The initial phase of a Nebraska special legislative session on the Keystone XL pipeline ended November 3, with five bills filed on the state’s authority over the pipeline route
Ontario requires U.S. pollution reduction
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- May 6 2012
Ontario submitted a friend of the court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit May 1, contending that areas of the province near the U.S. border cannot meet their ozone air quality standard because of power plant pollution that crosses into Canada
RGGI compliance
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- June 10 2012
A June 4 report released by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative says that of the 211 power plants subject to RGGI’s requirements, only five were not in compliance as a result of their failure to have allowances for all of their carbon dioxide emissions
NA mercury down
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, USA
- -
- March 18 2012
In an update of the Montreal-based trinational agency’s Tacking Stock online pollutant database, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said March 15 that mercury emissions from the North American electricity sector fell 26 percent between 2006 and 2009
US and Canada behind on enviro taxes
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
- -
- Canada, Global, USA
- -
- March 18 2012
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said March 15 that the United States and Canada lag behind many other counties in their use of environmental taxes to reduce pollution while raising government revenues
