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Udall legislation encourages DoD sustainability

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 12 2011

Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) unveiled draft legislation June 8 that would encourage the Department of Defense to reduce fossil fuel consumption and increase its renewable energy use and energy efficiency

VT wins EcoCAR

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2011

A team of students from Virginia Tech University were named overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge June 16

Personnel

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2011

Richard Newell announced last week that after nearly two years of service as the Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, he will return next month to his position as professor of energy and environmental economics at Duke University

School siting report released

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 9 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency recommended October 3 that all sites under serious consideration as locations for schools undergo an initial screen and preliminary environmental analysis, and more comprehensive assessments if potential problems are discovered

Additional Keystone XL review requested

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2011

Thirty-four House Democrats sent a letter May 31 to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting a meeting with State Department officials to make the case for at least 120 days of additional review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and for field hearings in several states regarding the agency’s supplemental draft environmental impact statement

Fleet performance memo released

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2011

President Obama released a memorandum on federal fleet performance May 24 that requires all new light-duty vehicles purchased by the federal government to be powered by alternative fuels by the end of 2015

Large truck, bus regulations to be studied by Japanese special committee

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • August 14 2011

On August 5, for the first time the Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport convened the Study Committee on Vehicle Emissions in Off-Cycle to study stricter regulation of large truck and bus emissions for introduction in 2016

Poneman to Brazil to launch Strategic Energy Dialogue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Brazil, USA
  • -
  • August 14 2011

On August 17, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman is travelling to Brazil with officials from the departments of State and Commerce, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corp to launch the U.S.-Brazil Strategic Energy Dialogue, announced by President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in March

Climate is security issue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2012

Nancy Sutley, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told the National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment January 18 that climate change is a major national security issue

Energy and climate debate - January 15, 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2012

With the House and Senate preparing to return to DC to begin the second session of the 112th Congress on January 17 and 23, respectively, Congressional and Administrative leaders are jockeying for position on energy issues across the board