Emissions Regulations

EU Ready to Negotiate Euro 7 with Member States
A view of the European Parliament chambers in Strasbourg, France. © Shutterstock / Drop of Light

EU Ready to Negotiate Euro 7 with Member States

Lube Report EMEA - November 21, 2023

The European Union Parliament this month adopted its negotiation position on Euro 7, the revamping of EU rules for type- ...

California Adopts CO2 Reporting Mandate

California Adopts CO2 Reporting Mandate

Lube Report Americas - October 25, 2023

California Governor Gavin Newsom finally signed into law a first-in-nation bill that requires large U.S. corporations to ...

Legal Challenge to Minnesota Emissions Rule Falls

Legal Challenge to Minnesota Emissions Rule Falls

Lube Report Americas - October 18, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court last week decided against reviewing a lawsuit first by the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association cha ...

Product Carbon Footprint Methodology Published

Product Carbon Footprint Methodology Published

Lube Report EMEA - October 17, 2023

After nine months of development, the Union of the European Lubricants Industry and the Technical Association of the Eur ...

Several EU Members Propose Looser Euro 7

Several EU Members Propose Looser Euro 7

Lube Report EMEA - October 3, 2023

European Union member states last week agreed to push the bloc’s executive arm to relax Euro 7 automobile emissions re ...

California Can Set Own Truck Emissions Rules

California Can Set Own Truck Emissions Rules

Lube Report Americas - April 19, 2023

The United States Environmental Protection Agency granted California authority recently to begin requiring increasing pe ...

EPA Proposes Tighter Emissions Standards

EPA Proposes Tighter Emissions Standards

Lube Report Americas - April 12, 2023

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today proposed new, more stringent federal emissions standards for light-, mediu ...

Eneos Calculates Product Carbon Footprints

Eneos Calculates Product Carbon Footprints

Lube Report Asia - March 24, 2023

Eneos joined with environmental consultancy Wastebox and IT specialists NTT Data to work out how to calculate the carbon ...

EPA Tightens Heavy-duty Emissions Caps

EPA Tightens Heavy-duty Emissions Caps

Lube Report Americas - December 28, 2022

United States President Joe Biden’s administration published a final rule last week tightening caps on heavy-duty truc ...

New Vehicle CO2 Emissions Drop in U.S.

New Vehicle CO2 Emissions Drop in U.S.

Lube Report Americas - December 21, 2022

In model year 2021, the average estimated real-world carbon dioxide emission rate for all new vehicles sold in the Unite ...

Euro 7 Draft Lowers NOx Caps

Euro 7 Draft Lowers NOx Caps

Lube Report EMEA - November 15, 2022

The European Commission last week released a much-awaited draft of Euro 7, its next automobile emissions standard, focus ...

UEIL Launches Online Carbon Calculator

UEIL Launches Online Carbon Calculator

Lube Report EMEA - October 25, 2022

The Union of the European Lubricants Industry launched a new online tool to help companies calculate their carbon footpr ...

EU Green Deal Weighs on Chemicals

EU Green Deal Weighs on Chemicals

Lubes'n'Greases - October 3, 2022

The breakneck speed at which new regulations are being implemented in Europe may create drastic disruptions that the lub ...

New Fuels and Engines Tax Marine Lubes

New Fuels and Engines Tax Marine Lubes

Lube Report EMEA - September 27, 2022

The emerging era of new ship engine designs and the mosaic of interim and future fuels that are part of shipping’s tra ...

China’s Carbon Ambitions May Boost mPAOs

China’s Carbon Ambitions May Boost mPAOs

Lube Report Asia - September 9, 2022

China aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, which will likely offer opportunities for metallocene polyalphaolefin as ...

California to Phase Out New ICE Vehicle Sales

California to Phase Out New ICE Vehicle Sales

Lube Report Americas - September 7, 2022

The California Air Resources Board last month approved a rule that establishes a roadmap to end the sale of new internal ...

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Australia Bill Puts Emissions Targets into Law

Lube Report Asia - August 5, 2022

Australia’s new government administration introduced a bill last week that would for the first time enshrine into law ...