Thursday, July 08, 2010

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Obama Offshore Moratorium

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John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building in New Orleans Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejected the Obama ...

RestoretheGulf.gov

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RestoretheGulf.gov is the official federal portal for the Deepwater BP oil spill response and recovery. This site provides the public with ...

"Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection"

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Can we use forests with restraint - sustainably - while still enjoying forest products and services? "Yes." But how? John J. Berge...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule

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Public Meeting with interested stakeholders on the development of the proposed National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Elect...

China To Host Climate Talks Before Mexico Meeting

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China will host an extra round of international negotiations in October to foster an agreement over a new climate treaty. The extra round of...

EPA Proposes To Replace & Improve Clean Air Interstate Rule

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EPA Proposal Cuts Pollution from Power Plants in 31 States and D.C. Rule would reduce smog- and soot-forming emissions contributing to unhea...
Monday, July 05, 2010

Progress Energy To Close 11 Coal-Fired Power Plants?

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Progress Energy Inc. will close 11 coal-fired power plants at four sites in North Carolina by 2017 and replace the capacity with gas-burning...

TVA Fined $11 Million By Tennessee Dept of Environment

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will be required to pay $11.5 million in fines as a result of a December 2008 coal ash spill at its Kin...

European Union Airlines To Use Emissions Trading System

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Various estimates for emissions from air travel account for between 2 percent and 3 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Such m...

BP's Defense Department & Other Federal Gov't Contracts

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The U.S. Defense Department purchases aviation fuel and other petroleum products from BP under contracts worth at least $980 million in the ...

BP Seeking Investors and Challenging Macondo Field Partners

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BP is seeking a strategic investor to secure its independence in the face of any takeover attempts as it struggles with a devastating oil le...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

EPA Announcement on E15 Waiver Decision

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DOE is on track to complete testing designed to determine the impact of higher ethanol blends on vehicles built after 2007 by the end of Sep...

Mirant's Coal Combustion Waste Landfill Challenged By State

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The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) filed a complaint in March in U.S. District Court against Mirant Maryland Ash Management, c...
Friday, July 02, 2010

EPA Approves Arch Coal Pine Creek Surface Mine

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The Obama administration has approved a new mountaintop removal permit with the condition that the operator protects downstream water qualit...

Steny Hoyer Touts Loan Guarantee for Calvert Cliffs

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According to House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Constellation Energy Group’s joint venture with Electricite de Fra...

Petitions & Lawsuits Against EPA 'Endangerment Finding'

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Ten administrative petitions have been filed asking EPA to reconsider its Endangerment Finding, and lawsuits have been consolidated. The law...

EPA Administrator Makes Sixth Trip to Gulf Region

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To Oversee Response to the BP Spill U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson returns to the gulf coast to monitor ...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Threaten Energy Efficiency Programs

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Under the Property Assessed Clean Energy ( PACE ) financing programs, local government borrow money through bonds or other means and then u...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

3 Judge NRC Panel Says DOE Cannot Drop Yucca Application

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Administration Cannot Drop Bid for Nuclear Waste Dump in Nevada, Panel Finds Center President Norris McDonald at Yucca Mountain in 2003 In a...

Constellation Energy Group Invests in NC Smart Grid Company

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BGE Parent Invests $17.7 Million In Consert Inc Constellation Energy Group has invested in Raleigh, N.C.-based Consert Inc ., a "smart ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

EPA Releases Draft Strategic Plan for Public Comment

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The Draft FY 2011-2015 EPA Strategic Plan is now available for public review and comment. The Agency’s Strategic Plan identifies the measura...

First Uranium Mill in 25 Years Proposed In Colorado

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Western Colorado's Paradox Valley A proposal to build the nation's first uranium mill in 25 years could transform Paradox, Colorado ...

Oil Imports For the United States of America

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Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day) (As of April 2010) Country CANADA - 2,486 MEXICO - 1,276 SAUDI ARAB...

EPA's GHG Reporting Requirements For 4 Sources

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EPA Issues Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements for Four Emissions Sources Agency Also To Consider Data Confidentiality The U.S. Environmen...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Supreme Court Reasserts Standard for Injunctive Relief in NEPA Cases

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The United States Supreme Court reiterated the four-part standard for injunctive relief it announced in 2008, confirming that this same stan...

ACEEE to Release Smart Meter Report

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Advanced (or “smart”) meters for residential electricity use are all the rage today. According to a new study by the nonprofit American Coun...

Gulf Oil Spill Hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Senate Energy Committee will have a business meeting (Tues 6/29/2010) mark-up at 9:30 a.m. to consider S. 3516, a bill to amend the Outer ...

Offshore Drillers Test Blow Out Preventers for MMS

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Blowout Preventer In hopes of moving them along on permit approvals, shallow water drillers recently conducted successful shear ram testing ...

Groups Sue To Stop Cape Wind Project

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The Center supports the Cape Wind Project. Several groups filed suit late last week against the proposed Cape Wind project saying that the p...

'A Whale,' World's Largest Oil Skimmer Heading to Gulf

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The six opening's (six on each side of the vessel, 12 openings in all) near the bow of the vessel that pulls in the oil. 'A Whale,...