Showing posts with label coal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coal. Show all posts
Thursday, September 19, 2013

The End of Coal May Not Be the Time of Methane

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On Wednesday, Gina McCarthy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, testified before the House Committee on Energy and Co...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

2011 U.S. Electrical Power Generation by Fuel

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Last week when the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA released the second year of reported greenhouse gas emissions data from large sour...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Carbon Capture- Will It Save Us?

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Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, had “su...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Carbon Dioxide Limit for New Power Plants

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On Tuesday the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon dioxide. Under the new rule, ne...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Coal Production, the EPA and Atmospheric Pollution

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Some of the nation's coal-fired power plants were originally built as petroleum fired. Both types of electrical power plants were built ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Energy Consumption in the US 2010

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According to the US Energy Information Administration, the statistics branch of the Department of Energy, the US used 98 quadrillion BTU las...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Emissions of Carbon Dioxide in the United States

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Last Wednesday, the U.S. EPA released the list of facilities that emitted the most carbon dioxide in 2010. This is in preparation for later...
Monday, January 2, 2012

EPA and Power Generation in the US 2011

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On Friday, December 30th 2011 the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit granted a stay to the implementation of the EPA’s Cross...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

EPA Mercury Air Standards and Electrical Power in the United States

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On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 the U.S. EPA released the final regulation for controlling mercury, and other toxic emissions from coal fir...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

EPA Air Rules and Power Generation in the United States

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Our modern society requires power and that is not going to change. The cost of power is a key factor in determining the cost of production, ...