No agreement yet on APEC “green”; tech trade plan

Asia Pacific trade ministers on Friday said they were unable to agree on the terms of an initiative pushed by the United States to boost trade in clean energy and other environmentally friendly technologies.

U.S. punts tricky pipeline decision past 2012 election

The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection

Democrats ax bill to block US EPA clean air rule

Senate Democrats defeated a bill on Thursday that would have blocked federal environmental regulators from slashing power plant air pollution that blows downwind to other states and causes lung and heart problems.

Recession cuts transport demand, pollution: EU agency

Transport pollution fell for a second year in 2009 in European countries as recession cut demand, clearing the way for a social shift from the assumption car ownership is almost a necessity, the head of the European Environment Agency said.

Amnesty urges Shell Nigeria to start huge oil clean up

Royal Dutch Shell’s failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and the firm and its partners must pay $1 billion to start cleaning up the region, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

European Transport Sector must be Ambitious to Meet Targets

Emissions of many pollutants from transport fell in 2009. But this reduction may only be a temporary effect of the economic downturn, according to the latest annual report on transport emissions from the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Denmark says higher EU carbon goal politically vexed

Persuading the European Union as a whole to accept an increase in its target for cutting carbon emissions to 30 percent by 2020 would be politically very difficult, Danish Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard said on Tuesday.

Nissan Accelerates Roll Out of EV Quick Charge Network in Europe

Nissan is accelerating plans for a European-wide Quick Charge (QC) network for electric vehicles by giving 400 new quick charging stations free of charge to EV charging operators.

Heavy metals pollute a tenth of China’s farmland-report

About one tenth of China’s farmland is polluted by lead, zinc and other heavy metals to “striking” levels exceeding official limits, a government expert said according to reports on Monday

Australia passes landmark carbon price laws

Australia passed landmark laws on Tuesday to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade and injecting new impetus into December’s global climate talks in South Africa.

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