Wednesday, November 26, 2014

EPA Proposes Smog Standards

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Based on extensive recent scientific evidence about the harmful effects of ground-level ozone, or smog, EPA is proposing to strengthen air...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Keys Energy Center To Build Power Plant in Maryland

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Keys Energy Center, a subsidiary of  Genesis  Power LLC, is a planned 780Mw combined cycle, natural gas-fired electric power generating f...

Keystone Pipeline Fails In Senate: Warren Buffet Benefits

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PRESIDENT'S CORNER By Norris McDonald I have written about how any rejection of the shortcut Keystone Pipeline addition will bene...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Low Gasoline Prices Leading To More Guzzler Purchases

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Over the last month consumers have shown a fresh interest in the kind of SUVs — Hummers, Lincoln Navigators, Ford Explorers — that typified...
Monday, November 10, 2014

President Obama's Net Neutrality Plan

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The President's Statement An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By l...
Friday, November 07, 2014

DOE Funds Cyber Attack Prevention Program For Utilities

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The Department of Energy, as part of the Cybersecurity Risk Information Sharing Program (CRISP), awarded Norse Corp. a $1.9 million contra...

2 Japanese Nuclear Reactors Approved For Restart

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has described nuclear power as essential to economic growth because Japan is now relying mostly o...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Availability of 2013 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

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The Air Resources Board (ARB) and Québec’s ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements clim...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

NRC Resumes License Renewals For Nuclear Power Plant

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Following a two-year hiatus, the U.S. Nu...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

EPA Clean Power Plan

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Additional Information Agency requests public comment on additional information  As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...

Big Environmental Groups Contributing To Campaigns

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Five environmental groups are on track to spend more than $85 million on key races this year according to spending plans in an internal m...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Allison Macfarlane Stepping Down As NRC Chair

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Allison Macfarlane Allison M. Macfarlane, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced Tuesday that she will resign to take ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Watts Bar 2 Almost Ready To Produce Electricity

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Watts Bar 2, the nuclear reactor now approaching completion in Tennessee was dropped by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1988 after spendin...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

PG&E Fined $1.4 billion For San Bruno Natural Gas Explosion

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After nearly four years of investigation and hearings, Administrative Law Judges for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ha...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

U.S. Fuel Economy Reaches All-Time High

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New vehicles achieved an all-time-high fuel economy in 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. Model year 2013 vehicles...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

China and India Put Economy Before Climate Change

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Indian leaders did not attend the climate meetings at the UN in New York last week, but they did push back on President Obama’s plea for ...

Department of the Interior Releases Desert Renewables Plan

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The Department of the Interior released a draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan ( DRECP ) last week. The plan is a landscape-sca...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Aviation and Climate Change

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Aviation emissions are small compared with emissions from road transport and electricity generation, but are potentially large compared wi...

District Department of the Environment Approves First Stormwater Retention Credit Trade

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The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) has approved a trade of 11,013 Stormwater Retention Credits (SRCs). This trade, valued ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Obama Seeks $900 Million For Land & Water Conservation Fund

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The Obama administration is pushing Congress to triple the amount of money available for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which offi...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

President Obama Climate Change Speech at the United Nations

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President Obama on Tuesday delivered a climate change speech at the United Nations, telling 125 leaders that they are “the last generatio...

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Monday, September 22, 2014

EPA Announces Grant Opportunities to Reduce Diesel Emissions at Ports

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Today, EPA announced the availability of up to $5 million in grant funding to establish clean diesel projects aimed at reducing emissions ...

People's Climate March

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  Biggest Climate Change Demonstration In History     On Sunday, the People's Climate March, which included a crowd es...