Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Today Is The Last Day For Sale of CFC Asthma Inhalers

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Our president informs us that asthmatics should also be careful because the propellent in most of the hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) inhalers is ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

TVA Says It Will Clean Up Fly Ash Waste In Kingston

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has pledged to clean up the massive coal waste (fly ash) spill in central Kingston, Tennessee. The TVA...

German Offshore Wind Farm Most Remote In World

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German utility E.ON Netz GmbH has awarded ABB an order worth more than US$400 million to supply the power equipment that will connect the w...

BASICS For Refrigerant Chillers

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There are two primary chiller types: absorption and refrigerant, which operate very differently. There are two primary types of refrigerant ...

Constellation Energy Group Settles Fly Ash Lawsuit

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Residents of Gambrills, Maryland who claimed a subsidiary of Constellation Energy Group contaminated their water supply by dumping coal ash...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Sasol Should Partner With Exxon at LaBarge, Wyoming

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Sasol is the only facility in the world that is converting coal into diesel fuel. The Center is the only environmental group in the world ...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

TVA Must Relocate Families Displaced By Coal Ash Spill

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has no choice but to relocate the families from the 15 homes that were flooded by the coal ash spill ...

Climate Change Legislation Will Help Natural Gas & Nuclear

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Natural gas produces about half as much carbon dioxide as coal when burned. This gives it a major advantage if and when a price is put on c...

Presents & Futures: Copper, Natural Gas and Oil

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Copper dropped from about $3 per pound at the beginning of 2008 to about $1.25 per pound by the end of the year. Natural gas for January d...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Clean Air Interstate Rule Reinstated By Court

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed (on 12-23-08) its July decision to vacate the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), whi...

Credit Default Swaps and Collateralized Debt Obligations

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Tricky mortgage insurance schemes did not cause the financial crisis, but they did contribute to the marketing of subprime mortgage loans th...

Sina Purchases Focus Media Holdings Service

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Focus Media Holding Ltd. has sold Sina Corporation its nationwide network of hundreds of thousands of flat panel displays that play video ...

Center Wants $20 Billion Of Stimulus for Energy Defense

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The Center is requesting the Obama administration and Congress to authorize $20 billion of the estimated $800 billion 'stimulus packag...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Center Supports Lisa Jackson for EPA Administrator

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The Center supports Lisa Jackson's nomination to be administrator of the U.S. EPA and will aggressively promote her confirmation in th...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Warren Buffet Still Gets P-A-I-D By Constellation

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Electricite de France (EdF) won the war for Constellation with Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Group, but he gets a king's rans...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Center Supports Obama Economic Stimulus Plan

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Democrats in Congress would like to have an economic stimulus package of about $850 billion ready for President Obama to sign on January 21...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Center On Winning Side With Electricite de France

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The Center supported the sale of Constellation to Electricite de France (EdF) and opposed the sale to Warren Buffet's MidAmerican'...

Obama Picks Tom Vilsack As Agriculture Secretary

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President Elect Barack Obama has selected former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) to be his Secretary of Agriculture ( DOA ). He received...

Obama Picks Senator Ken Salazar For Interior Department

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President Elect Barack Obama has selected Hispanic Colorado Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) to be his Secretary for the U.S. Department of the ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Steven Chu and Nuclear Power

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President Obama's designee for Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) is pronuclear energy. He even supports nuclear fuel recycling...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

The War Between The Climate Change Trade Associations

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They spend hundreds of millions of dollars fighting each other on television, in newspapers and on Capitol Hill. And America's energy ...

Obama Should Support U.A.E. Nuclear Power Proposal

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The Center supports the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership ( GNEP ) and President Obama should continue this program to provide emission fre...

President Obama Opposes Gasoline Taxes (We Do Too)

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It is being reported that President Elect Obama opposes using gasoline taxes to 'force' conservation upon the driving public. We sup...

Modest Results From Poznan, Poland Climate Conference

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Clearly it is going to be difficult to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol climate change treaty. Topping the difficulty will be convincing Ame...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Car Industry Bailout Loan Bill Passes House/Fails in Senate

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The U.S. House of Representatives approved an auto industry bailout loan package on a 237 to 170 vote. General Motors Corporation, Chrysler...

Is America Becoming A Socialist Oligarchy?

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Is America quickly morphing from a capitalist democracy into a socialist oligarchy? We believe the question is important to the future of ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Carol Browner and Nuclear Power

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What is Carol Browner's position on nuclear energy? The Center thinks it tilts to the negative side. The Clinton administration neithe...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Constellation Board Meeting On Electricite de France Offer

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The Center is based in Maryland about 40 miles from Constellation's Calvert Cliff's nuclear power plant. We have presented stateme...

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań

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The Poznań Climate Change Conference provides the opportunity to draw together the advances made in 2008 and move from discussion to negot...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Natural Gas Futures

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Natural gas for January delivery settled at $6.017 per thousand cubic feet, or one million British Thermal Units, on the New York Mercantile...