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CO2 capture has to be addressed now
Capturing CO2 and sequestering it underground is an attractive longer term option for greenhouse gas reduction, but decisions regarding it cannot be postponed. Many of the decisions which power plants are making today will impact their CO2 capture costs. Therefore, capture has to be considered an urgent subject for analysis. These are the conclusions reached by McIlvaine in its just published, ...
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EPA Air Rule Defies Unanimous Supreme Court Decision
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - A supplemental rulemaking that would allow coal-fired power plants to increase their emissions when they add new generating capacity was proposed Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The proposal would exempt coal-fired power plants from installing the best available pollution controls when upgrading their facilities to produce more power. The ...
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Dirtiest Power Plants in the USA Named
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2007 (ENS) - Nevada Power's Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant has a higher emission rate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than any other power plant in the United States, according to a new ranking issued today by the Environmental Integrity Project. The report ranks the 378 largest power plants in the country based on company-reported data. When it comes to total ...
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AECOM receives Selective Catalytic Reduction Retrofit contract with Arizona Public Service
AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been selected for the project with Arizona Public Service (APS) to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) selective catalytic reduction (SCR) retrofits and related balance of plant equipment at the Four Corners Station near Farmington, N.M. AECOM will install SCR technology for APS Four Corners ...
By AECOM
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Adds Greater Sensitivity to its Simple Solution for Mercury Monitoring
FRANKLIN, Mass. (May 9, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, offers coal-fired power plants the Mercury Freedom System™, a mercury monitoring solution with a simplicity of design that results in maximum ease of use and maintenance, lower installation and operating costs, high reliability, and lower space requirements. In addition, the system is available ...
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EPA, state of Colorado join children’s hospital to highlight benefits of new mercury and air toxics standards for power plants
At a ceremony today at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colo., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Trout Unlimited, and ADA Environmental Solutions, Inc. to highlight the benefits of EPA’s newly issued Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect ...
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EPA extends public comment on mercury and air toxics standards/extension will have no impact on timeline for finalizing standards
In response to requests from members of Congress and to encourage additional public comment, EPA today extended the timeline for public input by 30 days on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards, an extension that will not alter the timeline for issuing the final standards in November 2011. “EPA will put these long-overdue standards in effect in November, as planned. In our effort ...
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High court to review EPA mercury limits
The Supreme Court is stepping into a new case about Obama administration environmental rules, agreeing to review a ruling that upholds emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The justices on Tuesday said they would hear arguments from industry groups and states that are challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules designed to ...
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PCME launches new Flue Gas Measurement System
PCME Ltd, leading specialist in the development, manufacture and supply of continuous particulate emission monitors, introduce the STACKFLØW 400 designed specifically to monitor the flow rate of emissions from industrial sources complying with the European Monitoring Standard EN-16911-2. Suitable for measuring flue gas flow rates after both bag filter and electrostatic precipitator ...
By ENVEA
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Duke Energy to spend US$93 million to resolve Clean Air Act violations
Emissions to be slashed by more than 35,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides annually. Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the nation, will spend approximately US$85 million to significantly reduce harmful air pollution at an Indiana power plant and pay a US$1.75 million civil penalty, under a settlement to resolve violations of federal clean air laws, the ...
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Sixteen States Sue U.S. EPA Over Mercury Cap-and Trade Rule
Untitled Document WASHINGTON, DC , June 19, 2006 (ENS) - Sixteen states filed a new lawsuit today in federal court challenging the final rules published June 9, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which establish a cap-and-trade system for regulating harmful mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. The EPA announced on May 31 that it would move forward with ...
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Settlement with Dominion Energy Reduces Harmful Pollution in Three States Including Illinois and Indiana
The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Dominion Energy has agreed to pay a $3.4 million civil penalty and spend approximately $9.8 million on environmental mitigation projects to resolve Clean Air Act (CAA) violations. The settlement will result in reductions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter by more than 70,000 ...
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Pollutec 2014: new ultrasonic stack Flowmeter launched
Environnement S.A, leading specialist in the development, manufacture and supply of continuous gas and particulate emission monitors, introduce the STACKFLØW 400 designed specifically to monitor releases from industrial sources complying with the European Monitoring Standard EN-16911-2. STACKFLØW 400 uses PCME*’s unique FlueSonic™ technology and mathematical measurement ...
By ENVEA
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New gas flowmeter launched
Environnement S.A, leading specialist in the development, manufacture and supply of continuous gas and particulate emission monitors, introduce the STACKFLØW 400 designed specifically to monitor releases from industrial sources complying with the European Monitoring Standard EN-16911-2. It uses PCME*'s unique FlueSonic™ technology and mathematical measurement algorithm (patent ...
By ENVEA
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CEC examines air pollution from North America`s 3,000 fossil-fuel power plants
North America's 3,000 fossil fuel-burning power plants continue to produce two-thirds of the region's electricity and, at the same time, generate the majority of certain harmful air pollutants and emit more greenhouse gases than any other industrial sector. North American Power Plant Air Emissions, a new report and database released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation ...
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Louisiana Generating to Install Pollution Controls and Pay $14 Million In Penalties and Projects to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced today that Louisiana Generating, an electric generating company owned by NRG Energy, Inc., agreed to a settlement at its Big Cajun II coal-fired power plant in New Roads, Louisiana, which will result in the elimination of over 27,300 tons of harmful emissions per year. The settlement, lodged in federal court ...
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Mercury Rising – Enviro Technology and mercury monitoring
The first global treaty on mercury has put the metal firmly on the emissions monitoring agenda in 2013. The Minamata Convention – which binds governments in over 140 countries to actively prevent mercury emissions and releases – was signed in January 2013. Mercury has long since been recognised as a chemical of global concern due to both its ability to travel long distances in the ...
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EPA proposes pollution controls for nation’s largest source of NOx: four corners power plant (AZ, CO, NM, UT)
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring additional pollution controls for the Four Corners Power Plant located on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, New Mexico to improve visibility and human health. EPA’s proposal will require plant operators to install the most stringent pollution control technology available for this type of facility. These controls will reduce ...
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Beijing issues 1st smog red alert, urging schools to close
Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city's vehicles off the roads. The red alert - the most serious warning on a four-tier system adopted a little over two years ago - means authorities have forecast more than three consecutive days of severe smog. An online notice from ...
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Beijing`s air pollution: it isn`t the cars
Even with half of private cars off the road, Beijing remains wrapped in a haze of smog. The real causes of Beijing’s air quality woes lie elsewhere. On July 20, half of private cars in Beijing went off the road in a sweeping attempt to improve air quality in advance of the Olympic games. Commercial and governmental vehicles, taxis and buses are all running as usual, but traffic is moving ...
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