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New York Subpoenas Five Energy Companies for Climate Risks
ALBANY, New York, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Friday sent subpoenas to five of the nation's largest energy companies, demanding that they disclose the financial risks of their greenhouse gas emissions to shareholders, specifically to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Attorney General Cuomo sent letters to the top executives of AES Corporation, ...
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EPA expects to revise rules for wastewater discharges from power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water. Wastewater discharged from coal ash ponds, air pollution control equipment, and other equipment at power plants can contaminate drinking water sources, cause fish and other wildlife to die and create other ...
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Fossil Fuel-fired Power Plants can be a Positive rather than A Negative Contributor to Water Quality
Operators of coal-fired power plants and gas turbine combined cycle power plants can utilize municipal wastewater for cooling and other needs. When they also eliminate discharges through zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology they become positive rather than negative contributors to water quality. Water lost through evaporation can be greatly reduced by heat extraction from the flue gas before it ...
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EPA denies politics delayed pollution rules
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency denied Thursday that the agency delayed formal publication of carbon pollution rules for new power plants for political reasons, as Republican senators have claimed. The proposed rules would impose tough requirements on new coal-fired power plants, setting the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming. EPA ...
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EPA announces public hearing on clean water act objection for dayton power and light J.M. Stuart station permit
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing and comment period on its objection to a draft water discharge permit for a power plant near Dayton, Ohio. The draft permit is for the Dayton Power & Light J. M. Stuart Station, a coal-fired power plant, to discharge into Little Three Mile Creek, the Ohio River and Buzzard’s Roost Creek. Written and oral comments will be ...
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Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. Launches New Mercury Control Product
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. ("ME2C" or the "Company"), a leader in mercury emissions control in North America, announced today that it is adding a new product to its proven, cost-effective mercury capture program that will reduce mercury emissions by preventing scrubber reemission events. The product is specifically designed for coal-fired power utilities with wet scrubbers to help remove ...
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Mercury Hotspots Detected in Eastern U.S. and Canada
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) – U.S. sources of mercury emissions, particularly coal-fired power plants, are the major cause of five biological mercury hotspots identified in New England, New York and Nova Scotia, according to two new scientific studies. The findings indicate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is greatly underestimating local and regional impacts of mercury emissions, but ...
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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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Massachusetts power station faces fines for clean water violations (MA)
A power station located in Holyoke, Mass. faces up to $177,500 in Clean Water Act (CWA) fines for allegedly discharging muddy storm water and other pollutants into the Connecticut River. According to EPA, the Mt. Tom Generating Company, LLC violated it’s federally issued permit by exceeding permit discharge limits over a five month period of time. The company was performing construction ...
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McCain and Obama`s plans to combat climate change
Regardless of who is elected next November, both candidates agree that climate change is a fact and not a theory. “I know that climate change is real,” said John McCain. “We can have a debate about how serious it is, but the debate about climate change is over.” John McCain and Barack Obama however vary widely in their response to this issue, leaving the American people with a choice of ...
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Mt. Tom Power Station will pay penalty for clean water act violations (MA)
The Mt. Tom Generating Company, LLC, has agreed to a settlement of $40,814 for violations of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The company violated its federally issued permit over a five month period when it was conducting construction work at its coal-fired power plant facility, located in Holyoke, Mass. The company discharges its wastewater to the Connecticut River. Discharges of muddy storm ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Offers Simpler Solution to System Integrity Testing for Mercury Emissions Monitoring
FRANKLIN, Mass. (May 9, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the Model 81i MCG mercuric chloride generator, a simpler solution to the demand for weekly system integrity testing for mercury emissions monitoring at coal-fired power plants. An optional feature for new systems and a simple retrofit for installed units, the Model 81i MCG is a fully ...
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Australia announces AUS$100m Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently announced a AUS$100 million Global Institute to speed up the development of carbon capture and storage technology. Through this Institute, the Rudd Government will work cooperatively with other countries to help reduce the amount of C02 released into the atmosphere. The Government is offering to host the Institute in Australia and would continue to contribute up ...
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EPA enforcement cuts 300 million pounds of pollution in great lakes region
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its annual enforcement and compliance results. Nationwide, EPA enforcement actions eliminated more than 1.8 billion pounds of harmful pollution during the past year, including 300 million pounds of pollution in the Great Lakes region. EPA’s enforcement and compliance program protects human health and improves the quality of the ...
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Court Upholds New Jersey`s Tough Mercury Rule
TRENTON, New Jersey (ENS) – In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey has affirmed the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's regulations to protect people from the impacts of mercury emissions from iron and steel melters. The decision, released by the court April 13, allows the state to move forward with its efforts to address four of the ...
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New house energy committee chair rep. upton grows skeptical about climate change and waits for business to change his mind
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, new House energy committee chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) continued changing his tune from being a climate solutions advocate to a climate change skeptic when he aligned himself with fellow skeptic and Americans For Prosperity (AFP) President Tim Phillips to support the lawsuits by global warming polluters against climate rules. Upton has morphed from ...
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Coal Ash and Protecting Communities and the Environment from Potential Exposure Hazards
Earlier this year a report published by the Environmental Integrity Project, with help from Earthjustice, examined monitoring data from U.S. coal-fired power plants to assess potential groundwater pollution from coal ash. In the report, the organizations found that 91% of the 265 power plants with monitoring data of nearby groundwater found contamination from one or more pollutants found in coal ...
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Over 2,900 Energy Experts Believe Climate Change Is Happening
A recent survey of the Association of Energy Engineers' (AEE) membership, based on 2,967 responses, has revealed that 83% of respondents believe climate change is happening (go to www.aeecenter.org/2013markettrends for full report), and 74% of those individuals believe that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, with 85% indicating that the federal government should take action to combat the ...
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EPA sets stricter emission standards for oil refineries
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules Tuesday to reduce toxic air pollution from oil refineries by forcing operators to adopt new technology that better monitors and controls emissions. The rules will require for the first time that refineries install air monitors along "fence lines" where pollution enters neighboring communities. The monitors will measure levels of benzene and ...
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US Court of Appeals orders EPA to redraft mercury pollution rules, make them stricter
Environmental and public health groups as well as 14 states, one city, and native tribes have declared victory as a federal appeals court vacated two rules issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that failed to set strict limits on mercury emissions from power plants. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the agency's 2005 'Clean Air Mercury Rule,' ...
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