Friday, July 31, 2009

USEC: Gets No DOE Loan Guarantee - Halts Uranium Plant

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The American Centrifuge Plant was to include approximately 11,500 AC100 machines that were to be housed in existing buildings at the Piketon...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

CFTC: Speculators Caused Oil Price Spike Last Summer

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will issue a report in August that points to speculators as playing a significant role in dr...

Center Supports The Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310

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The Center opposes mountaintop removal. The Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310 , was introduced by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) on Ma...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

3rd Hearing in 2009 on Kingston Ash Accident

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The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment met on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 to consider the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston ...
Monday, July 27, 2009

$25 Billion To Help GM Recover & Produce Efficient Cars

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General Motors Company (GM) has applied for more than $10 billion in Department of Energy funds, according to a spokesman for the company. S...

Cardin & Alexander Seek To Ban Mountaintop Removal

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Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md), left, and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn), right, have introduced legislation (Alexander-Cardin Appalach...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Price of Natural Gas and Coal

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Today, natural gas for August delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 14.5 cents to settle at $3.695 a million British thermal un...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

EPA's Jackson Announces Associate Administrators

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U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has announced three key appointments to the senior staff at EPA: Lisa Heinzerling , who has been name...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Is Copenhagen Becoming A Warm Up Act?

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The delay in the U.S. Senate until September to consider climate change legislation combined with significant environmental group opposition...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Waxman Markey Cap & Trade Superior To Price & Tax

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Some environmental groups and climate activists* recently held a briefing in Washington, DC to express their support for an energy price inc...

Senate E & NR Committee Examines Mine Reclamation

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The hearing received testimony examining S.796, Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 and S.140, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 20...

Senate E & PW Committee Climate Change Hearing

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Note: Consideration of climate/energy legislation has been delayed for consideration until September. The Senate Environment & Public Wo...
Monday, July 13, 2009

G8 Supports Emissions Cuts: Developing Countries Object

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The G8 agreed last week at its annual summit to support a goal of cutting global emissions by 50% by 2050 and of reducing emissions in wealt...

Stephen Chu and Gary Locke Go To China For Energy

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu, left, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, right, are vidsiting China this week to discuss building a China-US cl...

Larry Irving Joins Hewlett-Packard

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Larry Irving, left, will join computer services company Hewlett-Packard Co. on Sept. 8 as vice president of global government affairs. He w...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Hidden Health Hazards in Your Business

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Most people are aware of the health dangers of outdoor air pollution, but don't realize that air pollution in their homes, offices, and ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Al Franken Comes To Washington

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald I greeted Al Franken and his wife Franni, right, this morning in the Hart Senate Office Building j...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

DOE Cancels GNEP Environmental Impact Statement

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to cancel the preparation of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership ( GNEP ) Programmatic Env...

Center Supports Sotomayor Supreme Court Nomination

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Although we completely disagree with Sonia Sotomayor 's decision regarding cooling water intake structures ( CWIS ) for current electric...
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,...