Thursday, May 29, 2014

President Obama West Point Speech Includes Global Warming

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President Obama at West Point May 28 The Center has been encouraging the Obama administration to utilize the Defense Department (DoD) ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

U.S. Wood Pellet Exports Double in 2013 in Response to Growing European Demand

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on U.S. International Trade Commission data Wood pellet exports from the Un...

Nuclear Power Reactor Decommissioning & Spent Fuel Storage Status

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Vermont Yankee In the last year, the owners of five nuclear power reactors have confirmed their early closure. Kewaunee, Crystal River 3...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Industrial Onsite Electricity Concentrated in Chemicals, Oil, and Paper Manufacturing

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report and Electric Power Annual Onsite industrial genera...

Obama Establishes Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

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Today, Wednesday, May 21, President Obama will sign a proclamation establishing the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in sou...
Monday, May 19, 2014

EPA Finalizes 316 (b)

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Standards to Protect Fish, Aquatic Life from Cooling Water Intakes  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized standa...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Maryland Governor O'Malley Vetoes Bill That Delayed Offshore Wind Farm

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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), left, on Friday vetoed a bill that would have delayed a proposed wind farm in Somerset County.  The bi...
Friday, May 16, 2014

China Produces and Uses As Much Coal As the Rest of the World Combined

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics Note: For countries whose 2012 data was unavailable, ...

Remarks by the President on American Energy

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Walmart Mountain View, California 9:48 A.M. PDT FULL STATEMENT Excerpts And so today, here at Walmart, I want to announce a few m...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Grow America Act

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The GROW AMERICA Act , or Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Courts Give Obama Administration 3rd Victory: Soot, Smog & Mercury

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The Obama administration had its third big environmental legal victory in a month. 1) Soot: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circui...
Friday, May 09, 2014

Natural Gas Liquids Pricing Out Natural Gas.

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In recent years, high levels of natural gas production have pushed prices down. The Henry Hub spot price averaged $3.73 per million British...

Alkanes

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Hydrocarbons which contain only single bonds are called alkanes. They are called saturated hydrocarbons because there is a hydrogen in ev...

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EPA Seeks Comments On Fracking Chemicals

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EPA announced today that it will seek public comment on what information could be reported and disclosed for hydraulic fracturing chemical...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

President Obama Brings In The Weathermen on Global Warming

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NBC’s Al Roker, and other television meteorologists, met with the White House on climate change on Tuesday. More than 100 national and local...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Coal Exports

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Coal now generates about 39% of electric power in the U.S., off from 55% in 1990. Low domestic demand has renewed the focus on U.S. expo...

National Climate Assessment

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FULL REPORT Excerpts The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the futur...
Monday, May 05, 2014

"Years Of Living Dangerously" - - Showtime Presents

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Hollywood celebrities and respected journalists span the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human t...

UN Report on Fukushima

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Increase in Cancer Unlikely following Fukushima Exposure - says UN Report   Low Risk of Thyroid Cancer Among Children Most Exposed  ...
Friday, May 02, 2014

ATSDR Report on Drywall Now Available

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An ATSDR report, Health Consultation: Possible Health Implications from Exposure to Sulfur Gases Emitted from Chinese-Manufactured Drywal...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

AIRNow

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Real Time Air Monitoring The Air Quality Index (AQI) is an index for reporting daily air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted ...
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...