Wednesday, April 30, 2014

California Cap-and-Trade Program GHG Allowances Retirement

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Application forms and instructions are now available to request the retirement of California Cap-and-Trade Program GHG Allowances for purcha...

Exelon Buying PEPCO

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Pepco Holdings has agreed to be acquired by Chicago-based nuclear energy giant Exelon in an all-cash deal.  Exelon's all-cash transact...

EPA Solicits Public Comments on Action Plan for RE-Powering America’s Land

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comments on the draft action plan for its RE-Powering America’s Land Ini...

Deeper Wind Wins Offshore Wind Lease

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Deepwater Wind is the provisional winner of two offshore wind energy sites located in the federal waters off the coasts of Rhode Island an...

Supreme Court Upholds Crossstate Air Pollution Rule

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The Supreme Court in a 6-2 decision Tuesday upheld a rule that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate air pollution from ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

EPA Releases Manufacturers Report For Car & Truck GHGs

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a Manufacturers Performance Report that assesses the automobile industry’s pr...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Senators Johnson & Crapo Seek To Dissolve Fanne Mae & Freddie Mac

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Lawmakers are rallying around a core set of principles crafted by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and ranking mem...
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...