BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Members of the European Parliament are expected to vote against car pollution testing rules they say are too soft on automakers and fail to learn the lessons of Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal, politicians and EU sources said.
New York Governor Cuomo plans to issue a mandate, called the Clean Energy Standard, to require that New York State achieve 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030 according to a press release issued on November 23 by Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York within the Governor’s office.
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Oil major Royal Dutch Shell was handed a 22,500 pound ($33,919) fine by a local Scottish court on Tuesday for a 2011 oil spill in the North Sea that was the largest in more than a decade.
MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Russian Energy Minster Alexander Novak said on Tuesday the first stage of an energy bridge from Russia to Crimea would be completed by Dec.
The Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) on Nov. 23 said it awarded contracts for nine energy storage projects totaling 16.75 MW. The projects complete IESO’s plan to secure a total of 50 MW of energy storage in Ontario, the organization said.
MOSCOW/KIEV, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it would cut off gas supplies to Ukraine and threatened to halt coal deliveries, ratcheting up a dispute over a power blackout in Crimea at a time when a ceasefire between Kiev and separatist rebels is fraying.
A three-judge panel at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 19 rejected an appeal from environmental groups of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) approval of the agency's environmental review of a Pattern Energy Group Inc. wind farm in California.
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