Regulations

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

The U.S. Supreme Court last week decided against reviewing a lawsuit first by the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association challenging the state’s adoptio ...

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

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 ...