Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Energy & Environment Subcommittee 'Fracking' Hearing

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The House Energy & Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, chaired by Ed Markey (D-MA), right, held a hearing today o...

EPA Underground Injection Control Program

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Oil and Gas Related Injection Wells (Class II) What is a Class II well? Class II wells inject fluids associated with oil and natural gas pro...

Who Owns The Groundwater?

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Who owns the water in the underground source, known as an aquifer, that supplies your well and drinking water system? It varies from state t...

Hydraulic Fracturing and Groundwater Protection

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Does the Safe Drinking Water Act provide sufficient protection? Maybe. Maybe Not. Congress is currently examining whether to ban the hydraul...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Energy Backed Securities Meet Energy Efficient Mortgages

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A federal program that is not getting much response could be enhanced by incoroporating the Center's proposed Energy Backed Securities (...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Pre-Earthquake: Electricity Production and Use In Haiti

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Earthquake Recovery Must Include Electricity Delivery In Haiti, 12.5% of the 9 million population have access to electricity, which is deliv...

Using Landfill Methane To Produce Electricity

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing eight landfill methane capture projects for their innovation in generating ren...

Will Electricity Utility Sector be the Next Wall Street?

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Will The Utility Sector Need A Bailout? The prolonged recession has led to the first reductions in electricity demand in many decades. Our c...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Delay In Nuclear Waste Repository To Cost DOE Billions

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ruled (1/12/10) that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cannot argue that d...

Congress 2010: Second Session of the 111th Congress

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Congress gets back to work this month and some important legislation is pending at the beginning of this new decade. First up might be Senat...

Senate EP&W Majority United In Opposition To Murkowski

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The letter below from Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer urging Senate members to oppose the proposal ...

No Taxpayer-Backed Loans Unless Nuclear Plants Approved

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In response to questions from House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) on the nuclear energy loan gu...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

States Hypocritical On Climate Change?

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Some states are complaining about proposed EPA climate change regulations at the same time many states brag about the success of their clima...

Memorandum From EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson

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From: Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator To: All EPA Employees Colleagues: Almost one year ago, I began my work as Administrator. It has been a ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Advertisement: Purchase Norris McDonald Autobiography

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" Diary Of An Environmentalist "
Saturday, January 09, 2010

Congressman Pomeroy Seeks To Limit EPA on Climate

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Congressman Earl Pomeroy (R-ND), left, is introducing legislation (Save Our Energy Jobs Act, H.R. 4396 ) that would effectively reverse the ...

Large Recovery Act Contract(s) For Nuclear Waste Clean Up

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The single largest contract from the Stimulus Package has gone to Savannah River Nuclear Solution, LLC (SRNS) in the amount of $1,407,839,8...
Friday, January 08, 2010

President Obama Announces Clean Energy Technology Jobs

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Clean Energy Manufacturing Jobs Initiative President Barack Obama has announced new funding for clean technology manufacturing jobs and plan...

EPA Requests Grant Applications For Climate Change

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it is making up to $5 million in grants available to U.S. and international o...

Google Gets Into Electricity Marketing Business

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Google has applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to become an electricity marketer. This would give Goog...

Schwarzenegger Appoints Lester Snow To Natural Resources

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the appointment of Lester Snow, left, to be the state's new Natural Resources Agency (NRA)...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

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Light, sweet crude for Feb delivery is $82.66 a barrel on the N.Y. Mercantile Exchange. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is...

The 2008 Electric Utility Operating Performance Report

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Industry Report By Electric Light and Power - - Teresa Hansen, Editor in Chief TABLES OF TOP 20 PLANTS Top coal generator ranked by generat...

Partnering Electricity Delivery With Wireless Internet

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The infrastructure is there to link electricity delivery with the efficiency possibilities of controlling some demand characteristics of app...

U.S. EPA Proposes Strengthening of Smog Standard

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Proposed standards, strictest to date, will protect the health of all Americans, especially children The United States Environmental Protect...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Richard Branson and his Carbon War Room

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Industrialist visionary Richard Branson, left, has launched the Carbon War Room , a Washington, D.C.-based corporate think tank designed to ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

EPA Actions on Two Proposed West Virginia Coal Mines

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EPA today announced a path forward on two coal mountaintop mining operations in West Virginia EPA is informing the U.S. Army Corps of Engin...