Saturday, September 29, 2012

Water Costs Rising Nationwide

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Click on Map to Enlarge Water rates have surged in the past dozen years, according to a USA TODAY study of 100 municipalities. Prices a...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Obama Revokes Chinese Purchase of 4 Oregon Wind Farms

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President Barack Obama is revoking a Chinese company's purchase of four wind farm projects in Oregon in the vicinity of a U.S. naval fac...

DOE Invests In University-Led Nuclear Energy Innovation

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As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to deploy every available source of American energy and ensure the ...

China's Using Less Metallurgical Coal Hurting USA Coal Jobs

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Slowing growth in China is taking a toll on Appalachian coal mines and coal towns, which have one of the world's richest deposits of h...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Acid Rain Program Adjusts To Court Ruling

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When we went to update our password on EPA's Clean Air Market Programs CAMD Business System, the message below was posted: On August 2...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Novel Arguments Used To Fight Hydraulic Fracturing

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Project Opponents Maintain Hydraulic Fracturing Cumulative Impacts Must Be Considered in NEPA Novel arguments are being made in a cl...

Recycling Aluminum Cans

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Approximate 93 billion aluminum beverage cans are made in America every year.  Alcoa and Atlanta-based Novelis, a unit of India's Hindal...

General Electric Significantly Expands Mining, Oil & Gas

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GE Acquisitions Point Way To Resources Oriented Future General Electric Company wants to more than double the size of its new mining bus...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Anti Nuclear Activists Meet With NRC

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NRC Headquarters Two members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission spent part of Saturday afternoon meeting with leaders of groups oppose...

Internet Energy Use

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Servers In Data Centers Use Lots Of Electricity, Produce Heat, Need to Be Cooled Data Centers Need Redundant Backup Power, Usually Batteri...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Droughts Making It Harder To Produce Electricity

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Electricity generation is the biggest single user of water in the U.S., according to an analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey, which foun...

Worldwide Fracking Protests Planned

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More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are scheduled to take place around the world on Saturday...

Coalition Against Nukes Occupies, Rallies & Briefs

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CAN Organizes Biggest AntiNuclear Activities In Years The Coalition Against Nuclear Power ( CAN ) wants to immediately decommission the ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Wind Sector Hurting From Cloud Over Tax Credits

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Current U.S. law gives wind-power producers a tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour, a subsidy that keeps wind energy competitive with...

EPA & Manufacturers Agree On Management of Used Electronics

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Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched its Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge, an initiative t...

Hollande Administration Will Not Permit Fracking

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Francois Hollande French President Francois Hollande says he will not permit hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. France imports 98% of...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

2nd EPA Administrator Russell E. Train Dies at 92

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Russell E. Train Conservationist Russell E. Train, the second head of EPA (1973 and 1977), Monday at 92.  He served as the first chairma...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Charging Rates For Electric Vehicles

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Electric car charging providers are wrestling with what, if anything, to charge for charging. As charging companies begin collecting fees, i...

Gas Tax Not Keeping Up With Highway Construction Needs

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The federal tax, at 18.4 cents for gasoline and 24.4 cents for diesel, hasn't changed since 1993. As a result, the tax buys about half t...
Friday, September 14, 2012

D.C. Housing Authority Energy & Water Improvements

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The DC Housing Authority is celebrating the completion of a $26 million Energy Capital Improvement (ECI) Program and the start of two new in...

EPA Adds 12 Sites To Superfund National Priorities List

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Eight Other Sites Proposed To Be Added The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding 12 new hazardous waste sites hat pose pu...

Anti Nuclear Activists Are On The Move

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The Coalition Against Nukes is planning a series of events in Washington, D.C., Sept 20-22, as part of the Rally for a Nuclear Free Future...

The Fed Buying $40 Billion in Mortgage Backed Securities A Month

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The Fed The Fed said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities every month and would keep buying them until the job market ...