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EPA Proposes New Guidelines for Greener Federal Purchases
2013-11-20 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA is proposing draft guidelines that will help federal government buy greener and safer products. In response to broad stakeholder interest, EPA is seeking public input on these guidelines and potential approach to assessing non-governmental environmental standards and ecolabels already in marketplace. Draft guidelines address key characteristics of environmental standards and ecolabels, including credibility of development process and effectiveness of criteria for environmental ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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EPA Offers Funding to Reduce Pollution from Diesel Engines
2013-11-20 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA made $2 million in funding available for rebates, offered as part of Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA), to help public and private construction equipment owners replace or retrofit older diesel construction engines. According to EPA's Janet McCabe, "These rebates will help equipment owners protect public health and improve air quality near construction sites while updating their fleets." EPA will accept rebate applications from November 20, 2013, to January 15, 2014. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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EPA proposes rollback of 2011 cellulosic target in win for oil companies
2013-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: U.S. EPA has proposed taking back its 2011 cellulosic biofuel target and refunding oil companies nearly $5 million for their costs in trying to meet it. The proposal -- which was buried in Friday's 204-page proposed rule setting next year's renewable fuel targets -- hands another win to oil companies, which are currently challenging the 2011 target in court. EPA says it used the same process to develop the 2011 target of 6.6 million gallons as it did the standard for last year, which a federal...
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EPA Decision to Lower Ethanol 2014 Requirements Commended
2013-11-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Last week (15 November), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed 2014 renewable fuel (RFS) standard that will require refiners to blend up to 15.21 billion gallons of biofuels into gasoline next year, which represents the first-ever reduction in a biofuels mandate that Congress created during the George W. Bush administration.
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USDA Comments on EPA Ethanol Plan
2013-11-18 19:28:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued the following statements on EPA's proposal of 2014 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS): “The Obama Administration remains committed to the production of clean, renewable energy from homegrown sources, and to the businesses that are hard at work to create the next generation of biofuels. read more
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