Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Maryland Regulators Approve Allegheny Energy Merger

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Maryland energy regulators have approved the sale of Allegheny Energy, which serves Western Maryland, to FirstEnergy, but placed 20 conditio...

FCC & Justice Approve Comcast Merger With NBC Universal

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The Justice Department, along with the Federal Communications Commissionon, approved Comcast's $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal ...

Upton Announces Staff Changes at Energy and Commerce

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Fred Upton House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) announced additional staff hires and promotions for the Energy ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Hu Jintao Arrived Today at Andrews Air Force Base

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The American delegation included Ambassador Jon Huntsman and his wife, Mary Kaye; U.S. Chief of Protocol Capricia Penavic Marshall; and Col...

Energy & Commerce Subcommittee Chairs for 112th Congress

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Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has announced the Republican membership of the six Energy...
Friday, January 14, 2011

EPA Revokes State Air Plans In Order To Include GHG Plans

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The EPA on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, revoked its prior approval of state implementation plans (SIPs) for almost half of the states in the uni...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

New NOAA Study Finds: 2010 and 2005 Hottest Years On Record

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According to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 has tied 2005 as the Earth's warmest on rec...

EPA Halts Disposal of Mining Waste at Proposed Spruce Mine

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Agency cites irreversible damage to clean water, environment in the region After extensive scientific study, a major public hearing in Wes...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

EPA Deferring GHG Permitting Requirements for Biomass

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EPA to Defer GHG Permitting Requirements for Industries that Use Biomass   Three-year deferral allows for further examination of scientifi...

Doc Hastings: Chairman, House Natural Resources Committee

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Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, first joined the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 to serve Washington’...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

EPA Guidance on Chrominium 6 Includes Continued Evaluation

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EPA Issues Guidance for Enhanced Monitoring of Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water The EPA recommendations are in response to emerging s...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Center Welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao

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Hu Jintao  Welcome President Hu Jintao The Center hopes your  January 19, 2011 visit to Washington, D.C. will be very productive. ...

First Environmental Group To Publicly Support Nuclear Power

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Looking back in Center history The Center, through its outreach arm (African American Environmentalist Association), participated in a Nat...

Duke Energy To Buy Progress Energy

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Duke Energy agreed to pay $47.48 a share for Progress Energy, in a deal valued at $13.7 billion to $26 billion (differing published estimate...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling - Final Report

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The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling final report concludes: The oil spill stemmed from a...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

State of Maryland To Sue Mirant Over Fly Ash Contamination

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The State of Maryland plans to sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic and Mirant Maryland Ash Management in federal court for alleged violations of federal...

EPA Administrator Briefs Senators on Chromium-6

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Lisa Jackson Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson briefed a bipartisan group of senators in December after a repor...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

"Climate Change: The Year Ahead"

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By Svend Brandt-Erichsen and Dustin Till On January 2, 2011, EPA rules took effect requiring that air permits issued for new power p...
Monday, January 03, 2011

PEER Hammers EPA Administrator Jackson on Chromium

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Below is a press release from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) We requested a response from EPA but did not re...

Organizations Ask Court to Overturn EPA Approval of E15

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The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, the International Liquid Terminals Association and the Western States Petroleum Assoc...

ABS: New Guide for Building Offshore Wind Installations

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The classification society ABS released a new Guide for Building and Classing Offshore Wind Turbine Installations. This is the first Guide t...

Terminator Leaves Office As Green Governor

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Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office this week as a green governor.  He will be remembered for working with De...

Center & NACF Moving Forward on Biomass Electricity Project

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Breakfast meeting: John McCormick, Norris McDonald,  Maurice Stone, Derry Bigby The Center staff and National Clean Fuels (NACF) held...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

Intercounty Connector Air Study Wastes Maryland State Money

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Although the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) federal lawsuit failed to stop the Intercounty Connector (ICC) from being constructed on envir...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Top 20 Ranked Power Plants 2009

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Industry Report: Operating Performance Rankings From Electric Light & Power Magazine By Teresa Hansen, Editor In Chief [Click on C...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

EPA Guidance for Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Cleanup

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today updated its guidance on how to properly clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamp (CFL...

General Electric Partners With Two Russian Firms

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General Electric Company is joint-venturing with Russian energy company Inter RAO and state-owned technology-holding company Rostekhnologii....

Fred Upton Should Draft Climate Change Legislation

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House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Designate Wrong on Climate Change The Chairman's Op Ed in The Wall Street Journal toda...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Remembering 2010

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER Norris McDonald 2010 was a very interesting year.  But aren't they all?  This one though, had some very inter...

General Electric Sells Its Mexican Mortgage Business

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Did you know that GE had a Mexican mortgage business?  Neither did we. General Electric Co.'s finance division, GE Capital, has sold i...