Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Improving the Grade Score of Energy Infrastructure

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The Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, released by the American Society for Civil Engineer’s (ASCE), revealed failing grades for mu...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Federal Register Notice On Request To Restart San Onofre

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San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station [Federal Register Volume 78, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 16, 2013)] NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIO...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

EPA Critical of Bristol Bay Pebble Mine

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) revised draft assessment of the Pebble Mine project’s potential impact on the aqua...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

EPA Critiques State Department EIS on Keystone XL Pipeline

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WASHINGTON. DC APR 22, 2013 ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE Mr. Jose W. Fernandez Assistant Se...
Monday, April 22, 2013

EPA Honors Winners of First-Ever Campus RainWorks Challenge

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University of Florida and Illinois Institute of Technology lead in design of green infrastructure on campus The U.S. Environmental Protec...
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EARTH DAY: Invisible In 2013 and Date Should Be Moved

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald It is really cold today.  Welcome to Earth Day 2013.  Usually it is cold AND rainy.  Who ca...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

EPA Publishes 18th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its 18th annual report of overall U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions showing a ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

EPA Proposes To Cut Pollutants Into Waterways By Power Plants

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In accordance with a consent decree and in line with requirements under the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...

Natural Gas Replacing Coal Produces CO2 Reduction in USA

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U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the country is making more electricity with ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

No Progress Made In Reducing CO2

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The world has made almost no progress over the past 20 years in reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies, despite more than $2 t...

Peabody Energy (Coal) 1st Quarter Earnings

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Coal miner Peabody Energy Corp. profits slid in the first three months of the year on lower U.S. shipments and prices for its Australian c...

12 States To Sue EPA Over Delayed CO2 Rule

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A dozen states and cities are jointly threatening to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its failure to impose carbon emissions ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

House Subcommittee Passes Bill To By-Pass President on Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

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A bill to bypass President Obama’s authority to decide the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline’s fate passed a House Energy and Commerce subcomm...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

In 5th Year, RGGI CO2 Allowance Market Remains Competitive

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2012 Annual Market Monitor Report No evidence of anti-competitive conduct has been found in the market for Regional Greenhouse Gas Initi...

California Wind Power

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California saw a surge in new wind farms last year, taking its wind power capacity to 5,544 megawatts. That put it second in the nation behi...

Old Oil Pipeline Welds Vulnerable To Failure

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Exxon Mobil pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. Recent pipeline ruptures are raising fresh questions about the safety of pipes made decade...

Online Nonprofit InsideClimate News Wins Pulitzer

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Lisa Song Elizabeth McGowan InsideClimate News  won the Pulitzer Monday for national reporting for its reports on problems in the re...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Pipeline Company Use of Eminent Domain

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Private pipeline companies can use eminent domain to seize land-use rights for pipelines at one price, deemed fair by the courts, and can ...

Electricity Lines: Underground or Overhead?

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"Should Utilities Be Required to Bury Power Lines to Protect Them?" The Wall Street Journal 4/12/2013 Millions of homes and...

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

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Addressing federal employees on her first official day.
Saturday, April 13, 2013

EPA Delaying GHG Rule

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EPA is delaying the rule for greenhouse gas limits on new power plants. EPA claims they are still reviewing more than 2 million comments o...
Friday, April 12, 2013

CEO Salaries: EEI & U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Tom Kuhn, left, president of the Edison Electric Institute gets $6,736,627 a year, according to CEO Update’s survey. Tom Donohue, righ...