California this year began prohibiting the sale of engine oils and lubricants considered obsolete by American Petroleum Institute standards. The regul ...

At last weeks meeting of the American Petroleum Institutes Lubricants Group in San Antonio, Texas, ballot results were announced for official adoption ...

Feb. 22 is the deadline for submitting comments and more data for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys ongoing preliminary risk assessment of med ...

Vietnam no longer collects tariffs on lubricants imported from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states, which will open up the countrys g ...

Legislators in California are considering a bill that would require automotive service providers to notify customers of the oil change interval that c ...

Engine oil marketers hoping to license new products with the American Petroleum Institute or General Motors proprietary Dexos program are hitting a st ...

Newly announced rule changes by Chinas Ministry of Commerce will make it easier for domestic companies to export finished lubricants, greases, and bas ...

The American Petroleum Institute increased its fees for Engine Oil Licensing and Certification last month, to offset costs related to the upcoming int ...

A California resident filed a class action lawsuit against the owner of Dollar General discount stores, alleging that its house brand motor oils are o ...

The Tanzanian Bureau of Standards revved up its crackdown on substandard lubes, demanding two reshipment orders in two weeks. Rhoida Andusamile, publi ...

The American Petroleum Institute increased fees for its engine oil licensing system last month to offset implementation costs for its forthcoming cate ...

New Jersey authorities filed a civil suit Dec. 21 accusing several Pep Boys and Advance Auto Parts stores in the state of unlawful pricing practices. ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public new documents regarding its preliminary risk assessment of medium- and long-chain chlorinated ...

Can very-long-chain chlorinated paraffins replace their cousins, which have been targeted by EPA?

With PC-11 heavy-duty engine oils advancing towards a launch next Dec. 1, lubricant marketers are focusing on the hard questions: How to demonstrate t ...

Russian police on Friday raided a massive counterfeit motor oil business in Moscow that they said sold fake products in containers designed to look li ...

PC-11, the next heavy-duty engine oil category from the American Petroleum Institute, cleared several of its final hurdles this month and is being for ...

AUSTIN, Texas – PC-11, the next heavy-duty engine oil upgrade, received the go-ahead from ASTM here last week. The new category, which the Ameri ...

Bolivias National Hydrocarbons Agency began lubricant quality control operations last month, sampling and testing lubricants in mobile laboratories to ...

Russian authorities and a civil organization have uncovered a pattern of illegal production and sale of fake motor oils in the city of Novosibirsk. Se ...