28.10.2018 – The Secretary of State’s Office recently released a summary of lessons learned from Oregon’s disastrous Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) program. Thanks to a combination of lax oversight, complex
26.10.2018 – The primary challenges associated with alternative fuels in shipping result from environmental considerations, availability of sufficient fuel quantities, fuel costs, and the rules of the IGF Code. However, without
26.10.2018 – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Canada will implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax starting in 2019, fulfilling a campaign pledge he
26.10.2018 – The UK government’s response to its fisheries bill consultation reveals it is forging ahead with a plan to charge those who land fish in excess of quotas, rather than
26.10.2018 – Exiting coal or introducing a carbon price floor to reduce Dutch emissions in line with a recent court ruling could see a near term electricity price surge of EUR3-4.
25.10.2018 – To help addressing Germany’s growing CO2 emissions from the transport sector, the country’s parliament amended the federal highway toll law to exempt lorries powered by natural gas from tolls
25.10.2018 – The European Parliament voted in favor of new rules on road use charges in the EU to guarantee equal treatment of road users and to help Member States reach
25.10.2018 – Top trade officials from 12 countries and the EU vowed to reform the WTO rules in the face of US actions that threaten to paralyze the body. The member
24.10.2018 – Vietnam’s lawmakers have decided to raise the environmental tax on a number of commodities from January 2019, including hard coal, gasoline, kerosene, plastic bags, lubricants, mazut, HCFCs, ozone-depleting substances
24.10.2018 – Germany must find a way to reduce its agricultural emissions, which make up seven percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by mid-century.
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