Americas Oil Policy News

The maritime sector can achieve its stated goals of reducing greeenhouse gas emissions provided regulators apply a $11/mt global carbon price by 2025 rising to $264 by 2050...

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) launched Tuesday a consultation on its proposed new framework for greenhouse gas emissions reporting...

The COP27 conference to be held at the end of the year in Egypt will be "another important milestone in...

US energy giant ExxonMobil announced on Tuesday it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions...

A total of eight countries or regional entities have pledged to adjust carbon credits generated on their territory following the COP26 conference...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) sold 18.1 million barrels of crude oil from its strategic...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded its fourth exchange of crude oil...

The United States may reverse course on its 2022 ethanol mandate increase amid pressure from the oil refining industry...

Global scheduled flights are expected to continue their rise in Q1 despite the number of...

The chemical recycling of plastic waste could soon earn voluntary carbon credits under a proposed...

Global CO2 emissions rose 5.1% month-on-month in November to their highest level in nine months with higher energy consumption...

The Omicron variant of Covid sowed panic in oil markets at the end of November, leading to the sharpest drop in prices...

The share of electric vehicles (EVs) in total US vehicle sales is likely to double from around 4% in 2021 to 8% in 2022...

The International Energy Agency has proposed to make all its data and analysis freely available following calls from academics late last year...

Fires burned through an estimated 29.2 million hectares of forests and savannah in December, the third highest monthly total in 2021...

European gas futures tumbled nearly 20% on Thursday, wiping out a week's worth of...

US registry Verra published Tuesday a new draft methodology for assessing carbon leakage from afforestation and reforestation...

German carbon consultancy Perspectives and Swiss project developer South Pole have started working on a new methodology to create carbon offsets from green hydrogen...

Swiss bank UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) has excluded five "unresponsive" energy...

US registry Verra has started screening buyers of voluntary offsets associated with cryptocurrencies...