Tuesday, December 13, 2011

EPA's Cooling Tower Rule: Clean Water Act Section 316(b)

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On March 28, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the proposal for the last of its Clean Water Act Section 316(b) ru...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Electricity Storage

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Edwin F. Feo spoke about energy storage with Jeff Postelwait {Postelwait responses are below} Storage can assist with renewables by smooth...

Calif Makes It Easier To Use Out-of-State Renewable Energy

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The California Renewable Energy Resources Act (SB X 1-2), obligates all California electricity providers to obtain at least 33% of their ene...

T. Boone Pickens versus the Koch Brothers

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NATGAS Act Would Provide Subsidies For Cars on Natural Gas The New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011 (NAT...

Kyoto Protocol Dies In Durban: Countries Punt to 2015

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The final text of the United Nations COP17 Climate Change Conference will force all major emitters to sign on to a legally binding agreeme...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Guidelines on Bats & Wind Farms

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In January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is set to publish new guidelines telling wind-farm operators how to measure the danger ...

NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko Should Be Fired

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Center Joins With Other NRC Commissioners In Opposing NRC Chairman Jaczko The Center's main reason for calling for the firing of Nucle...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

FDA To Determine Safety of Bisphenol A in Plastics

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According to a court settlement reached Wednesday between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Alpha Natural Resources To Pay $209 Million For Coal Disaster

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Alpha Natural Resources ( ANR ), which bought out Massey Energy in June, which owned the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia where 2...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Cleaner Coal Rules Will Create Green Jobs

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Stricter federal emissions rules, intended to make exhaust from the nation's smokestacks cleaner will be a boon to providers of pollutio...

Is Bigger and Bigger and Bigger Government The Solution?

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China is demonstrating that big government can partner with the private sector to foster dynamic economic growth.  But can government become...
Friday, December 02, 2011

Obama Promotes Performanced-Based Energy Retrofits

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President Obama and former President Bill Clinton a $4 billion effort to improve energy efficiency in buildings across the country.  Preside...

EPA Proposes Changes To Standards for Boilers and Incinerators

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Reconsidered standards would set emission limits for less than one percent of boilers, achieve public health benefits while increasing flexi...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Senate Republicans Introduce Keystone XL Pipeline Legislation

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Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), backed by GOP leadership and dozens of other Republicans, introduced legislation Wednesday that requires a perm...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Chinese Pebble-Bed High Temperature Reactor

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The Rongcheng Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant is China's first high temperature gas-cooled pebble bed reactor power plant.  The expected p...

Healthy Kids Outdoors Act

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Purpose: The proposed Healthy Kids Outdoors Act ( S. 1802 ) will improve our children’s health, support economic growth and strengthen th...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Seth Oster Leaving EPA

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Seth Oster Seth Oster, Associate Administrator for the Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education, will be departing EPA at ...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Mars Rover Curiosity Is Nuclear Powered

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Some environmentalists protested the launch of the nuclear powered Cassini space probe destined for Saturn some years ago.  There isn't...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Industry Groups Will Probably Sue Re California Cap-and-Trade

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"Previewing Legal Challenges to Cap-and-Trade" By Robert Lawrence, Dustin Till and Svend Brandt-Erichsen California’s greenhou...

Particulate Matter

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The first standards for PM were established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1971 under the Clean Air Act.  The EPA'...

The Intercounty Connector (Mostly) Opens Today

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Center Was The Only Environmental Group in the United States to Support the ICC Along With Support For National Harbor & Woodrow Wilso...

Greenhouse Gas Rule For Refineries Delayed By EPA

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The Environmental Protection Agency will not meet a mid-December deadline to propose first-time standards for greenhouse gas emissions from ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

State Department's Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science

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The State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, often referred to as “Oceans, Environmen...