Friday, October 31, 2008

Center Participates in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Meeting

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Center President Norris McDonald participated in the Oct 30 meeting between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and companies app...

Center Opposes Warren Buffet Purchase of Constellation

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We oppose the pending purchase of Constellation Energy Group by MidAmerican Energy Holding Co/Berkshire Hathaway, Inc (Warren Buffet) . We...
Monday, October 13, 2008

China National Offshore Oil Corp Buys Shandong Haihua Co Ltd

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Shandong Haihua Co Ltd has been taken over by China National Offshore Oil Corp refinery unit (CNOOC). The deal is subject to regulatory appr...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Price of Benchmark Steel Product: Hot Rolled Steel

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The price of the benchmark steel product, hot-rolled steel, is $780 a metric ton on global markets. That is down from $1,000 a metric ton e...

United States and India Commercial Nuclear Power Deal

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The U.S. Congress on October 1, 2008, gave final approval to an H.R. 7081 United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonprolif...
Friday, October 03, 2008

Congress Passes Financial System Bailout Bill

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The Senate passed its financial system bailout bill ( H.R. 1424 ) 74 to 25 on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 and the House passed the bill 263 ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

EPA Issues Final Yucca Mountain Radiation Standards

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EPA has established radiation standards for the proposed spent nuclearfuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Moun...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Mergers & Acquisitions

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J.P. Morgan Chase has purchased Washington Mutual (WaMu). Wells Fargo has purchased Wachovia. MidAmerican Energy [or Electricity de France] ...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

S.C. Closes Low-Level Nuclear Waste Storage Site

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A South Carolina state law closed the Barnwell, South Carolina low-level nuclear waste site. Now nuclear waste is piling up at locations f...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Rhode Island's Offshore Wind Farm: Deepwater Wind

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Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri today announced that Deepwater Wind was chosen as the successful developer to construct a wind ene...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Light Emitting Diode: Successor To Compact Fluorescents?

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Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) use 85% electricity than other incandescent light bulbs and 50% less in than compact fluorescent light (CFL) b...

Is 'Mark-to-Market' Similar To 'Check Kiting?'

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In accounting and finance, mark to market is the act of assigning a value to a position held in a financial instrument based on the curren...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Wall Street Journal Describes the Past Two Weeks

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The financial crisis paper of record describes the actions of the federal government in the last two weeks to free market private enterpris...

Contagion: Toxic Stocks, Toxic Securities, Toxic Paper

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Blue chip securities are not what they used to be. Now many are being described as 'toxic.' The stock market environment is clearl...

Black September, Black Wednesday, Black Bear

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 will be known as 'Black Wednesday' even though the stock market hit bottom on Thursday. Black Wednes...

Housing Bubble Burst Creates Toxic Assets

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We knew that housing prices seemed too high for many years. In the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area alone, we wondered how federal govern...
Friday, September 19, 2008

United States and China Cooperate on Emissions Reduction

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has committed more than $1 million to study the economicand technical feasibility of recover...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Warren Buffett Buys Constellation Energy Group

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Constellation Energy Group has agreed to sell to Warren Buffett's, right, MidAmerican Energy Holdings for $4.7 billion, or $26.50 per...
Monday, September 15, 2008

In Memoriam: Robert J. Knox

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Bob Knox was a friend and inspiration to AAEA as he was to many other institutions and people all over the country. Robert J. Knox was a fou...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Energy Plan 2008: Democrats versus Republicans

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Democrats Allow drilling 100 miles off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and in the gulf off the west coast of...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

EPA Releases 2007 TRI Data

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EPA has releases the 2007 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Data using the Electronic Facility Data Release(e-FDR) to better inform communities...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

NRC Officially Reviewing DOE Yucca Mountain Application

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will take four years to review the 8,600-page Department of Energy (DOE) application to store 77,00...
Friday, September 05, 2008

Honda FCX Clarity Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plug-In Electric Hybrid

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Finally, someone is producing the car we have been salivating over for a decade. The Honda FCX Clarity is a hydrogen fuel-cell lithium ion ...

BLM Issues EIS for Oil Shale and Tar Sands

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The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management has issued a final environmental impact statement to open 2.4 million acres in Col...
Thursday, September 04, 2008

EPA Provides Clean Water Permit Fee Program Incentives

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EPA is issuing a new rule that will provide financial incentives for states to use fees when administering a clean water permit program. EP...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

EPA Adds 6 and Proposes 11 Sites to Superfund List

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding six new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Treasury Dept Creates Environment & Energy Position

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has created a new position at the Treasury Department and has appointed William 'Billy' A. Pizer, r...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

China Electric Power Exceeds USA Power Use

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The carbon emissions of China's electric power sector will jump by about a third this year and surpass the total emissions of the U.S. ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Offshore Oil & Gas Lease Sales and Royalty Rates

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Currently there are more than 7,000 leases in the Gulf Outer Continental Shelf that account for 27 percent of the Nation’s domestically pr...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

EPA Identifies Air Quality Designations in States

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EPA has identified areas across the country that are either meeting or not meeting national standards for fine particle pollution, or PM 2....