Reg Stat — A Portal to the History of EPA’s Published Activity

US EPA http://www.epa.gov/regstat/ Reg Stat provides information on EPA documents published in the Federal Register between 2005 and 2009. It also provides in-depth information on rulemakings likely to be of most interest to stakeholders — those rules signed by the EPA administrator that substantively amend the Code of Federal Regulations. Users will be able to … Continue reading »

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010

US Congress Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010 [Switchboard blog] …Just a few moments ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill that will help accelerate the clean-up of America’s millions of dirty diesels.  This bill, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2010 (S. 3973/ H.R. 6482) will be on President Obama’s desk for his … Continue reading »

Regulating Air Emissions from Ships: The State of the Art on Methodologies, Technologies and Policy Options

Institute on Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission / Apollonia Miola, Biagio Ciuffo, Emiliano Giovine, Marleen Marra http://tinyurl.com/22pylz2 [from Summary] In recent years public concerns regarding the environmental impacts of maritime transport have increased. This is because maritime transport is the fifth largest contributor to air pollution and carbon emissions, and the growth … Continue reading »

CITIES: Car Industry, Road Transport and an International Emission Trading Scheme – Policy Options

Potsdam Institute, Technical University Berlin, and BMW Group / Ottmar Edenhofer, Felix Creutzig, Christian Flachsland, Emily McGlynn, Jan Minx, and Steffen Brunner http://tinyurl.com/28q5apr [Abstract] This report evaluates existing regulations for climate change mitigation in the transport sector and investigates the effects of including transportation in emission trading schemes. [from Management Summary] Road transportation is confronted … Continue reading »

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdstat35_en.pdf [From publication webpage] The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics has been issued. The volume provides essential data for analyzing and measuring world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. In deviation to earlier editions, the online edition is discontinued and replaced with a new data dissemination system. The … Continue reading »

A Foundation for the Future: Building an Environmental Monitoring System for the Oil Sands

Oilsands Advisory Panel / Environment Canada http://tinyurl.com/27ffe5d [From preface] On September 30, 2010 the federal Minister of the Environment announced the establishment of an Oil Sands Advisory Panel on water monitoring for the Lower Athabasca River Basin and connected waterways. The Minister noted that “serious concerns have been raised about oil sands pollution entering the … Continue reading »

Global Capacity for Emerging Infectious Disease Detection

PNAS (December 14, 2010) v107 n50 p21701-21706 (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/107/50/21701.short?rss=1 The increasing number of emerging infectious disease events that have spread internationally, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the 2009 pandemic A/H1N1, highlight the need for improvements in global outbreak surveillance. It is expected that the proliferation of Internet-based reports has resulted … Continue reading »