Emmissions & Environmental
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Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of the policy implications of enactment of a carbon tax. The CBO report makes a compelling case for inclusion of a carbon tax in any legislation to reduce the deficit or reform the tax code.
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Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey.
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Calling it an "Oklahoma solution" that uses state-produced energy resources, representatives of Tulsa-based utility Public Service Co. of Oklahoma urged environmental officials Monday to approve a plan that phases out its last two coal units at a power plant near Oologah by 2026.
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Federal environmental regulators have proposed a range of options designed to reduce toxic pollutants discharged by certain power plants close to waterways.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the state's environmental agency to delay a hearing Monday on a new plan by Tulsa-based utility Public Service Co. of Oklahoma to deal with regional haze.
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The government should be able to pursue its claim that the former owners of an Indiana County coal-fired power plant failed to install required pollution controls in the 1990s because the absence of those controls makes the plant one of the largest sources of air pollution in the country, a lawyer representing state regulators argued Wednesday.
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Verizon, Google and Apple are Active in Renewable Sector
Verizon is joining Apple and Google in the effort to not just finance the growth of sustainable technologies but to also fuel their own operations with cleaner energies and to reduce their carbon footprints. As for the telecom operator, it says that it will own its systems and apply those investments to its corporate offices and data centers.
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Estimates of Potent Methane Releases Reduced
Shale gas producers have gotten an injection of adrenalin by an unexpected source: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which has reduced its estimates as to how much methane is leaked during the production process.
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While the Arctic Refuge is a high priority for those living in Alaska that would benefit from the influx of capital and the associated jobs, the region has drifted from the limelight in recent years. Now, though, it is indirectly making its way back to center stage by becoming a bargaining chip in President Obama’s quest to take oil and gas royalties and to allocate them to clean energy programs.
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News of the European Union and its troubles with the program there to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions is spreading around the globe. What will happen and how might that experience affect California and New England, where similar efforts are underway?
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The future of coal generation is about two months away. That’s when Duke Energy will fire up its 618-megawatt coal gasification plant in Indiana, which can also run on natural gas. While the project has endured cost overruns and heavy criticism, the company says that it will be clean, efficient -- and well worth it.
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China is getting accolades for its green energy policies that are attracting private investors. The Asian nation, in fact, is once again the global leader in terms of the amount of money it is raising from private interests. It is followed by the United States and Germany. What's behind the numbers?
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The damaging effects that result from burning coal may soon be nonexistent. It took scientists from Ohio State University 15 years and $5 million, but the clean coal technique has finally been developed. They have discovered a way to obtain the energy from coal without actually burning it, eliminating nearly all of the pollution.
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What’s going to happen to the future of climate change regs and Gina McCarthy? Both will move forward but each will get tempered to comport with the political and legal realities as well as the Obama administration’s overall economic agenda.
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Odds are that Ernest Moniz will replace Steven Chu to head the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE. Like Chu, Moniz is an academic with stellar credentials but he has a bit more political savvy than the departing secretary. Moniz showed that when he testified on Tuesday to the full Senate Energy Committee.
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The federal and state assistance given to green energy is under sharp attack from free market thinkers. Part of their motive, though, is political -- to make “green energy” a dirty phrase so that oil and coal companies can increase their negotiating power. It’s a tack taken right from the environmental movement’s handbook. And it’s having an effect, causing wind developers to say last December that they would agree to a six-year phase out of their lucrative tax credit.
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Four years ago, the environmental movement had been riding high until its “magic carpet ride” suddenly crashed. But the re-election of Barack Obama has given the green cause renewed hope and one that is manifesting itself both on Capitol Hill and in the market place.
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Lawmakers Consider Changing the Renewable Fuels Standard
While the special interests are at odds over ethanol mandates, party leaders are coming together to examine whether the so-called Renewable Fuels Standard should continue or be modified.
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TransCanada has all the permits it needs to begin building in July the southern half of its Keystone XL Pipeline. To jumpstart the northern half, Congress will take up in May its twin measures to bypass the presidential approval process. While the Senate effort won’t likely survive a filibuster, the two bills are expected to win solid majorities in both chambers. That broad-based endorsement will give President Obama the cover he needs to grant his approval.
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Some Senate Democrats are asking President Obama to reconsider his administration’s approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, saying that advanced coal technologies are a viable way to generate electricity. Easing up to allow more diversity in the country’s fuel portfolio is not only a prudent policy but it's also an affordable and healthy one, they add.
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