The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will spend nearly $2 million in fiscal year 2010 to investigate the potential adverse impact that hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas may have on water quality and public health.
Italian power giant Enel has warned the European Commission against tightening the rules for carbon emissions permits, saying greater restrictions could impact investment in projects to cut greenhouse gas emissions reports the Financial Times.
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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 thanks to rising oil prices and the economic recession, according to a draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller introduced legislation to suspend Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gases from stationary sources such as coal- and natural gas-fired plants for two years.
E.ON UK submits environmental scoping report for 'CCS ...
... Crossing the Hoo Peninsula in southeast England, the pipeline would be big enough to transport the carbon emissions of two 1600 MW Kingsnorth type power plants ...
Iberdrola and E.ON set to be given UK funds to develop carbon ...
... are to be given government support that could be worth tens of millions of pounds to develop technology for storing carbon dioxide emissions, according to the ...
Carbon dioxide capture project wins DOE funding - POWER-GEN ...
Carbon dioxide capture project wins DOE funding. 2 March 2010 -- UOP, a unit of Honeywell, was awarded a $1.5 million cooperative ...
Greenhouse gas carbon pricing could replace cap and trade - POWER ...
Greenhouse gas carbon pricing could replace cap and trade. 1 March 2010-- US senators are working on a plan that will combine energy ...
AEP emissions control systems to be supplied by Hitachi - POWER ...
AEP emissions control systems to be supplied by Hitachi. 1 March 2010-- Hitachi Power Systems America Ltd. was awarded a blanket ...
A draft policy calling for power plants to recycle and reuse cooling water through closed cycle cooling technology could affect six New York State nuclear reactors and may require $2 billion in investment. Similar rules affect power generators in California and New Jersey.
FPL Group Inc. proposed changing its name to NextEra Energy Inc. Shareholders will vote on the name change at the company’s annual meeting on May 21.
Two proposed IGCC coal-fired power projects have price tags that range between $5,500/kW and $5,800/kW. Both hope to win regulatory approval and begin construction in the coming months.
Mississippi Power Co. is proposing to cap the cost of its proposed 582 MW Kemper County IGCC plant at $3.2 billion, or almost $5,500/kW. The cap would be around 30 percent higher than current cost estimates.
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