Monday, July 28, 2008

Court Rejects EPA NSR Position in Alabama Case

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The Center's worst fears have come true in regards to New Source Review ( NSR ) gridlock and the failure of Congress to pass the Clear S...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Kyoto Protocol Pollution Credits Benefitting Asia Most

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The Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations air pollution trading system, does not directly reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emitted to the at...

Superlattice Power, Inc Lithium-ion Battery Technology

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Superlattice Power, Inc gained our attention when they took out a full page ad in the July 23, 2008 edition of USA Today. We are intereste...

Nuclear Power Plants Operating on Earth As of May 2008

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Nearly 24% of the world's 439 nuclear plants are in the USA. The nations with the most nuclear reactors are listed below (and the percen...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Utilities Collaborate with Electric Vehicle Companies

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Electric utility companies and General Motors have agreed to collaborate on comfortably, cost-effectively and reliably integrating plug-in ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The Problems With Retrofitting Existing Structures

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While it is evident that technology now permits a facility owner and operator to receive, manage, conserve, use and produce energy in a mann...

Court Strikes Down Clean Air Mercury Rule Exemptions

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia invalidated a 2005 EPA rule issued in February that would remove power plants from th...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Georgia Court Carbon Dioxide Ruling Will Be Overturned

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Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore ruled this week that the proposed 1,200 megawatt Dynergy Inc/LS Power Group coal-burning power plant cann...

51 Republican Congresssmen Request Cut in Ethanol

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The members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting a reduction in the r...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Greener Fireworks?

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Environmentally friendly fireworks are available but it might be awhile before they can compete with cheaper Chinese imports. After all, th...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Chemical Fog Keeps Birds Out of Substations

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PG&E is using methyl-anthranilate fog to keep nuisance birds away from high-voltage substations. The accumulation of bird excrement on ...

Florida Buys U.S. Sugar Corp To Preserve Everglades

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The State of Florida purchased U.S. Sugar Corporation for $1.75 billion and will turn its 187,000 acres (292 square miles) of farmland south...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Squirrels Can 'Short Out' Electricity Systems

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Did you know that when a squirrel moves from a power line and touches a tree limb, not only can he or she electrocute him or herself, they c...

Comparing Costs of Hybrid Cars

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Hybrid cars generally cost more than equivalent gasoline powered cars and the analysis below shows the amount of time it would take a buyer ...

Commercial Airline Engine Washing Saves Jet Fuel

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United Technologies Corporation (a unit of Pratt & Whitney) is washing the engines of planes at about 50 airlines because of the mainte...

Saudi Arabia Wants To Build Nuclear Power Plants

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And President Bush wants to help. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently signed an agreement to assist Saudi Arabia with nuclear tec...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Yucca Mountain Application Submitted To Department of Energy

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) submitted its application for licensure of the Yucca Mountain Spent Nuclear Waste Repository to the Nu...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

United Nations Considers Offering Climate Bonds

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The United Nations is thinking about offering a new type of bond intended to increase the building of clean energy projects. The bonds would...

T. Boone Pickens Makes Huge Wind Turbine Order

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Mesa Power LLP, owned by T. Boone Pickens, has placed the biggest single order for wind turbines with General Electric Company. Mesa will p...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Bush Adminstration Halts Petroleum Reserve Purchases

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The purchases of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) were halted on May 16 by the U.S. Department of Energy. About 13 millio...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Global Nuclear Power Expansion Needs GNEP To Be Successful

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The Washington Post published a disturbing article today that basically said the Middle East wants to 'go nuclear' for two reason...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Goes Wind Power

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The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission ( WSSC ) has announced that it will buy one-third of its electricity from a Pennsylvania Wind Fa...
Friday, May 02, 2008

EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality Standards for Lead

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EPA is revising the nation's air quality standards for lead for the first time in 30 years, proposing to dramatically strengthen the sta...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Emission Controls

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Volatile organic compounds (VOC) and particulate matter (PM) can be controlled using two technologies: 1) Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WE...

Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act of 2007

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America's Climate Security Act (S. 2191), cosponsored by Senators Joe Lieberberman and John Warner, calls for a cap on greenhouse gas (G...
Friday, April 18, 2008

EPA Publishes Annual National Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2006...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison Made Electricity Useful

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Nikola Tesla, left, and Thomas Edison, right, revolutionized American society by developing the first electricity distribution systems. Edis...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Maryland & Virginia Utilities Get Green Lights

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The Virginia State Corporation approved on March 31, 2008 Dominion Virginia Power's plan to build a $1.8 billion 585-megawatt coal-bur...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Center Promoting Brazil-PG County Sister City Partnership

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The Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy ( Center ) is proposing a Sister City partnership between Pedreira City , located in São P...

The Christie Todd Whitman Nuclear Power Conundrum

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Christie Todd Whitman, left, seems to be missing in action on the front lines of the fight to renew construction of nuclear power plants. Sh...