Monday, March 31, 2014

IPCC Report Warns About Effects of Global Warming

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The world’s leading environmental scientists, via the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told policymakers that climat...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Obama Administration Proposes New Rules To Reduce Methane Emissions

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The Obama administration today announced a four-pronged strategy of new regulations and guidelines on methane, a greenhouse gas whose effe...

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Clarify Protection for Nation’s Streams and Wetlands

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EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers jointly released a proposed rule to clarify protection for streams and wetlands under the Clean Wate...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Chris Christie Illegally Cancelled NJ Regional Greenhouse Gas Iniatiative

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A New Jersey court ruled Tuesday that the Christie administration broke the law when it excused power plants from complying with regulatio...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Bill Magwood To Head OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

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NRC Commissioner William Magwood will take over as head of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in September of this year following the re...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Week In Review

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald This was a very good week.  Two very exciting events included, 1) meeting two of my latest pro...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Combine Ultra-Supercritical Tech With Kemper Energy Facility CCS

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Kemper Coal Plant Carbon Capture and Sequestration   AEP's Turk is one of the most efficient, least polluting coal-fired power...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Kemper County Energy Facility

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A demonstration of Coal Plant Carbon Capture and Sequestration

New Jersey Leading Other States In Opposing Tesla Direct Sales

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Tesla, the electric car manufacturer that sells its vehicles directly to consumers rather than through authorized dealerships, is running ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Senate 'Sleep Over' Illustrates Pitiful State of Climate Change Policy

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and about 28 other Democrats stayed up all night Monday in...

Bipartisan Senate Proposal Envisions Home-Loan Market Without Fannie, Freddie

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Nearly six years after the government rescued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, top members in the Senate and the White House agreed on a framewor...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

316(b)

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The Clean Water Act Section 316(b) rule was not finalized on Jan. 14 as scheduled. Due to the government shutdown in October, the EPA missed...

The Ultra-Supercritical Coal-Fired Turk

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AEP's Turk is one of the most efficient, least polluting coal-fired power plants on the planet. AEP's ultra-supercritical coa...

AP 1000 Nuclear Reactors Ready For Operation In China

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The final module - the containment water tank - has been installed at the first of two AP1000 units under construction at Haiyang in China...
Monday, March 10, 2014

U.S. Forest Projects Offset Protocol Model Document Services

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Request for Proposals Proposal Submissions Due April 15, 2014   View Request for Proposals March 10, 2014 - RGGI, Inc. has r...
Friday, March 07, 2014

CO2 Allowances Sold at $4.00 at 23rd RGGI Auction

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First Auction with New RGGI 2014 Cap The nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiati...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

2013 American Wind Power Milestones

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American wind power topped 4 percent of the U.S. power grid for the first time last year and has delivered 30 percent of all new generating ...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

EPA Sets Cleaner Fuel and Car Standards

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized emission standards for cars and gasoline that should significantly reduce h...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

U.S. DOT Orders Tests on Rail Shipments of Oil

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Federal regulators ordered shippers to properly test and classify crude oil from the productive Bakken region before loading it onto frei...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Supreme Court Hears Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA

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QUESTION PRESENTED: After this Court decided Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) foun...
Friday, February 21, 2014

BNSF To Buy 5,000 New Crude Oil Tank Cars

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BNSF Railway plans to buy as many as 5,000 new tank cars to transport crude oil.  Railroads typically own engines and track but not the t...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

DOE Approves $6.5 billion in Loan Guarantees To Vogtle Nuclear Plant

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Vogtle Construction Site The Energy Department plans to grant final approval this week of $6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two nuclea...

Supreme Court To Hear EPA Climate Change Case

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  The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on Feb. 24 on the EPA's 2010 greenhouse-gas rules that imposed pollution-control re...

Senator Ed Markey Joins Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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  Ed Markey
Monday, February 17, 2014

Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists Refuse To Recognize Center's Role in Supporting Nuclear Power

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald The Center was the first environmental group to support nuclear power in the United States....
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Center Supports Trans-Pacific Partnership 'Fast Track' Authority

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The Center believes "fast track" authority for the Executive Branch would bring economic and strategic value to the United States ...

Mary Landrieu: New Chair of Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee

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Senator Mary Landrieu Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.), the new chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is very di...