Regulations

European Union member states last week agreed to push the bloc’s executive arm to relax Euro 7 automobile emissions requirements that it proposed la ...

Berryman Takes Helm at VLS

September 26, 2023

United Kingdom-based Verification of Lubricant Specifications announced Jacquie Berryman as its new chairperson, taking over from Mike Bewsey, who has ...

A subcommittee of the European Chemicals Agency recommended recently that medium-chain chlorinated paraffins be phased out of use in metalworking flui ...

The Kazakhstan government extended its ban on on-road exports of a variety of petroleum products including lubricants, according to an order published ...

A new ASTM international standard provides explanations of microbial contamination and biodeterioration and suggests methods to detect and control suc ...

Aug. 14 is the deadline for comments on a European Chemicals Agency draft opinion on a proposal to restrict medium-chain chlorinated paraffins and oth ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has proposed chemical safety regulation amendments that would tighten control over introduction of n ...

Luberef has contracted to increase the amount of feedstock supplied to its base oil plant in Yanbu’al Bahr, Saudi Arabia – a change that will boos ...

Police in the Brazilian state of Goias, in a joint operation with government agencies, on May 22 seized more than 4,000 liters of engine oil at a dist ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency granted California authority recently to begin requiring increasing percentages of medium- and heavy ...

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today proposed new, more stringent federal emissions standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for ...

Eneos joined with environmental consultancy Wastebox and IT specialists NTT Data to work out how to calculate the carbon footprint for its products, i ...

A fuller ban on Russian oil imports to the European Union took effect on schedule last weekend, but the bloc and allies did not include base oils on t ...

A coalition of the G-7 group of leading industrial nations, Australia and the European Union agreed Friday to introduce price caps on Russian petroleu ...

Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers approved last week a proposal to allow additional suppliers to enter the country’s lubricant market, local news o ...

United States President Joe Biden’s administration published a final rule last week tightening caps on heavy-duty truck emissions of nitrous oxides. ...

In model year 2021, the average estimated real-world carbon dioxide emission rate for all new vehicles sold in the United States fell by 2 grams per m ...

Chevron Oronite achieved final victory this week in a long-running engine oil patent dispute with Infineum when the companies agreed to stop pursuing ...

Euro 7 Draft Lowers NOx Caps

November 15, 2022

The European Commission last week released a much-awaited draft of Euro 7, its next automobile emissions standard, focused on cracking down further on ...

The Union of the European Lubricants Industry launched a new online tool to help companies calculate their carbon footprints. Companies along the supp ...