Tuesday, June 30, 2009

EPA Grants California Greenhouse Gas Waiver

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EPA has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards for new motor vehicles, beg...

EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality Standards for Nitrogen Dioxide

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The agency aims to reduce respiratory illness including asthma For the first time in more than 35 years, EPA has proposed to strengthen the ...

EPA Posts List of 44 “High Hazard Potential” Coal Ash Waste Impoundments

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted a list of 44 “high hazard potential” impoundments containing coal combustion resi...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Kingston Ash Slide Root Cause Analysis

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) contracted with AECOM, one of the nation’s leading geo-technical engineering firms, in January to perfo...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Allowances, Offsets, Trading & Refunds in the ACES Act

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The House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES Act) of 2009 ( H.R. 2454 ) includes the following provision regarding ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

American Clean Energy & Security Act of 2009 Passes House

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219 to 212
Thursday, June 25, 2009

EPA Establishes National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy & Technology‏

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The EPA recently (June 2009) established the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology Subcommittee on Promoting Env...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Center Supports Waxman/Markey Climate/Energy Bill

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The House Rules Committee has issued the latest 1,201 page version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act ( Original Version ) and a ...

USDA APPROVES GUARANTEED LOAN FOR COMMERCIAL-SCALE BIODIESEL PRODUCTION PLANT

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left, announced today that USDA Rural Development has approved a $25 million loan to enable a Minnesota b...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Obama Administration Awards First Three Auto Loans for Advanced Technologies to Ford Motor Company, Nissan Motors and Tesla Motors

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Today, the Obama Administration announced $8 billion in conditional loan commitments for the development of innovative, advanced vehicle tec...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Taxing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances

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From: Legal Energy Blog The Center agrees with Mark Price on taxing allowances as ordinary income. Except in the case of nonprofits like us,...

House Agriculture Committee Chair Influencing Climate Bill

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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) believes global warming will benefit farmers by increasing the growing season an...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

What A Year It Has Been So Far

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Cash For Clunkers, it has been quite the roller...

Monitoring Server Room Temperatures

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By Shireen Qudosi A server room is the brain of any effective well-networked company. However, this area is also most susceptible to failure...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Efficiency Produces Cheaper Electricity Than Nuclear

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And the sky is blue too. So what? We need efficiency AND nuclear power in order for America to have the electricity it needs to be the leadi...

Cash For Clunkers

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Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS Act of 2009- H.R. 1550 , S 247 ) passed in the House June 9 on a vote of 298-119. ...

EPA Administrator To Join River Monitoring in Kansas City

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will visit Kansas on June 22 to mark the kickoff of the Obama Administration’s...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Joe Biden Keynotes Senate Green Jobs Summit

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The Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee held a Green Jobs Summit in the Russell Caucus Room on June 17, 2009. Vice President J...

HUD, EPA & Transportation Depts Coordinate Outreach

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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, left, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, right, and U.S. Environmen...

Greater Union Baptist Church Scopes Catalina Island

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The Center is in partnership with the Greater Union Baptist Church of Compton, California to take youth to experience the Pacific Ocean and ...

MD PSC Hearings On Constellation/EdF Merger Begin Aug 19

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The Maryland Public Service Commission will hold hearings to decide whether Constellation Energy Group Inc. (CEG) and a French utility Elect...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

America Has Century of Natural Gas at Current Usage Rates

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A report by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee concludes the U.S. has more than 2,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas still in the gro...

India Plans to Increase Coal Output

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India is planning to raise its coal production target and divest coal-mining monopoly Coal India Ltd. Only a few state-run companies are cu...

President Obama's Global Climate Change Report 2009

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The White House launched a new science report on Tuesday that represents a consensus of 13 agencies developed over a year and half and focus...

10 Ways Your Business Can Go Green

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By Shireen Qudosi If you’ve got a business, one of the most profitable things you can do is to go green. Going green has been proven to be r...

AG SEC VILSACK NAMES NEW FOREST SERVICE CHIEF

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that Tom Tidwell, left, to serve as the new Chief for the U.S. Forest Service. Tidwell has...

House Agriculture Chair Says Global Warming Is Good

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House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn), right, is quoted in The Wall Street Journal ( 6/17/09 ) on the global warming...

Senate Energy Committee Passes Energy Bill 15-8

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The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved an energy bill by a 15-8 vote today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Ne...

Clean Environment In Congressional Hearing Rooms

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If everybody decided to bring signs into the Congressional hearings rooms, it would be chaos. In recent years, protesters have been allowed ...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Nominations: Miller to DOE Nuclear Energy, Norris to FERC

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President Obama announced on June 10 his intent to nominate the following individuals: Warren F. "Pete" Miller, Jr., PhD, left, N...