Saturday, July 07, 2012

Emissions from Combustion of Natural Gas

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Natural gas is the cleanest of all the fossil fuels. Composed primarily of methane, the main products of the combustion of natural gas ar...

California Legislature Approves High Speed Rail

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California took a step closer to building the nation's first bullet train.  The bill that was passed by the California legislature aut...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Panel Says Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Caused By Human Negligence

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A 10-member parliamentary panel investigating the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster concluded in its findings in a 640-page...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Bill Johnson Ousted as Duke Energy CEO Due To Nuke Problem

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Bill Johnson Bill Johnson was unexpectedly replaced Jim Rogers in the just completed merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy.  Jo...

Duke Eenrgy and Progress Energy Complete Merger

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Charlotte-based Duke Energy Corp. and Progress Energy Inc. have completed their merger now valued at about $32 billion to form the nation’s...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

EPA Revises GHG Permitting Thresholds

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EPA Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements Maintain Focus on Largest Emitters Steps to streamline process will ease burden on state ...

NC General Assembly Overrides Perdue Veto on Fracking

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NC Fracking Bill Senate Bill 820 NC Shale Gas Potential NC Fracking Counties & Zip Codes Bev Perdue North Carolina Republ...
Monday, July 02, 2012

EPA Rules and Sulfur Dioxide

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Flue Gas Desulfurization by URS A number of regulations are set to target SO 2 emissions, including the Cross State Air Pollution Rule...

National Ambient Air Quality Standards Have Improved the Air

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The first principle of the Clean Air Act (CAA) is defining what is, and what is not, clean air. This is accomplished numerically with the Na...

Natural Gas Power Plants Appear To Be The Future

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More than 250 gas-fired power plants are expected to come online between 2011 and 2015.  A new EPA proposal would limit carbon dio...

Veterans Jobs, Career and Training Program

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Special Projects The Center is in the process of implementing a Veterans Jobs, Career and Training (JCT) Program, which will provide...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Stealing Grease

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Thieves are stealing restaurant grease because they can get $3 per gallon for this product that is converted into biodiesel fuel.  Fairfax...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds EPA Authority on CO2

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The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the Eenvironmental Protection A...

Nuclear Regulatory Commission IG Report on Gregory Jaczko

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Inspector General report ( Summary ) on NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko has been completed.   It notes...

Allegheny County Implementing New Air Quality Policy

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An Allegheny County Board of Health committee has agreed on more protective, public health-based guidelines.The proposed guidelines would...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Vicitms Seek Compensation

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The Fukushima Daiichi plant catastrophe contaminated a broad circle of Japanese countryside and left hundreds of thousands of people witho...

EPA Awarding $2.7 Million to Revitalize Urban Waters

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it is awarding $2.7 million to 46 organizations in 32 states and Puerto Ric...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Center Considering Helicopter Surveillance Program

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Sikorsky S-55 Whisperjet Special Projects Chairman Doc Sloan operated a helicopter program a decade ago in the wake of the 911 terror...

EPA Proposes Updates For 2010 Cement Standards

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EPA Proposes Updates and Deadline Extension for 2010 Cement Standards Proposal would maintain significant air toxic reductions, while mak...

IG & GAO Review Powder River Basin Coal Leasing

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The non-competitive nature of the federal coal leasing program is being reviewed by the Interior Department’s Inspector General and also wil...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Interior Extends Comment Period For Fracking Rule

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The Interior Department is extending the public comment period on draft rules to regulate oil-and-gas "fracking" by 60 days, ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Chesapeake Energy Names New Chairman & Board Members

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation appointed Archie W. Dunham, the former chairman of ConocoPhillips as its new independent chairman, along wit...