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EPA seeks to cut power plant carbon by 30%
The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling out a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting the first national limits on the chief gas linked to global warming. The rule being announced Monday is expected to be finalized next year. It is a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's plans to reduce the pollution linked to climate change, and his ...
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Health and Environmental Groups Defend Crucial Clean Power Plan in Court
Nine leading public health and environmental organizations have stepped up to defend the landmark Clean Power Plan in the federal appeals court in Washington, saying the plan is a crucial step to curb the carbon pollution from power plants that drives dangerous climate change. The groups today intervened in lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate plan addressing new ...
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Carbon management for power plants 2011
As uncertainty grows around EPA and state-level regulation surrounding carbon emissions from power plants, finding strategies and technologies for complying with these regulations is becoming a top priority for power plant operators. Because of this, the Chief Environmental Officers from America's largest power generation companies including Southern Company, Dominion Resources and Constellation ...
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Legislative Panel Jeopardizes Action to Protect Pennsylvanians’ Health from Dangerous Carbon Pollution
A state legislative panel today made it harder to protect Pennsylvanians’ health by requiring the General Assembly to approve a state plan to curb power plant carbon pollution before it goes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to health and environmental groups. With just days left its legislative session, the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy ...
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Winner Business of the Year
Clarke Energy has been named as ‘Business of the Year >250 Employees’ in the Liverpool Echo Regional Business Awards 2014. The event took place at St George’s Hall in Liverpool on the 3rd of July 2014 and was sponsored by DLA Piper and KPMG. This year’s Regional Business Awards ran alongside the International Festival for Business, with Liverpool being a focus of ...
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NRDC Analysis Shows EPA Can Achieve Deeper Power Plant Carbon Pollution Cuts by Adopting More Clean Energy
The Environmental Protection Agency can ramp up energy efficiency and renewable power, and achieve substantially deeper cuts in carbon pollution from power plants than it has proposed, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in public comments submitted to the agency today. Such improvements would deliver major savings for consumers on utility bills, trigger a boom in clean energy jobs and ...
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EPA`s Plan to Curb Carbon Pollution Can Save Billions, NRDC Finds
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to curb carbon pollution from power plants overestimates the electric power industry’s compliance costs by as much as $9 billion, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report. Using current data, the report shows, the power sector and its customers could actually save nearly $2 billion in 2020 while meeting the EPA’s ...
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Clarke Energy joins North East Clean Energy Council
Clarke Energy is pleased to announce it has joined the North East Clean Energy Council (NECEC). NECEC “leads the just, equitable, and rapid transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. NECEC is the only organization in the Northeast that covers clean energy market segments, representing the business perspectives of investors and clean energy companies across every ...
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NRDC Analysis: More Solutions, Cheaper and Cleaner Ways to Cut Carbon Pollution Under EPA Power Plant Standards
A ground-breaking Natural Resources Defense Council proposal on how to cut carbon pollution from America’s power plants can achieve even greater reductions than previously thought—and at less cost, NRDC said today as it released an updated analysis of its 2012 plan. NRDC’s new analyses shows that 470 to 700 million tons of carbon pollution can be eliminated per year in 2020 ...
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Energy Upgrade California Encourages Residents to “Do Your Thing” to Lead the Way in Energy Efficiency
Golden State leaders are encouraging trendsetting Californians to “Do Your Thing”TM to set the pace for energy efficiency. State political, environmental and business leaders stand in support of Energy Upgrade California’s launch today of a new campaign for smarter energy use. Starting today (4/28), Energy Upgrade California is putting new energy behind educating all ...
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New NRDC climate analysis: nation can create jobs and save on electricity bills while cutting carbon pollution from power plants
The nation can significantly cut carbon pollution from power plants, the centerpiece of President Obama’s climate action plan, while adding thousands of new jobs and saving families money on their electric bills, according to a new analysis released by the Natural Resources Defense Council and business and labor groups. Countering critics’ charges, the NRDC analysis shows that the ...
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365 Companies and Investors Announce Support for EPA’s Clean Power Plan
In an unprecedented show of business support for tackling climate change, 365 companies and investors sent letters today to more than two-dozen governors across the United States voicing their support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan for existing power plants and encouraging the state’s “timely finalization” of state implementation plans to meet ...
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NRDC power plant proposal cuts carbon pollution at low cost with major benefits
A pioneering plan proposed by the Natural Resources Defense Council would reduce carbon pollution from America’s existing power plants by at least 20 percent this decade while delivering more than $20 billion in public health and environmental benefits, according to Dan Lashof, director of the Clean Air and Climate program at NRDC. The plan would cut dangerous carbon pollution with a ...
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U.S. revives nation`s first clean coal power project
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Friday plans to restart the country's first clean coal power project, scrapped by the previous Bush administration as too expensive. Under an agreement with the non-profit FutureGen Alliance, the Energy Department will take the first steps toward developing the first U.S. commercial scale-carbon capture and storage project, to be located in Mattoon, ...
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Energy Efficiency Poised for Key Role in New Power Plant Rule
In response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposal to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants, Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), made the following statement: “Energy efficiency is the cheapest, cleanest, and most readily available energy resource to help states cut carbon pollution. Over the ...
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More Than 120 Groups Report Lobbying Congress on Existing Power Plant Regulations
At least 120 groups ranging from large publicly traded companies to environmental organizations continued strong lobbying efforts directed at Congress this quarter on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations to curb carbon pollution from power plants. Many of those groups focused their attention on legislation in the Senate (S. 1905) that would curtail the EPA's authority to ...
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Metso and Fortum`s joint development work on oxyfuel combustion technology makes headway
Project aims to considerably reduce CO2 emissions Metso Corporation's press release on May 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. local time In a joint R&D project, Metso and Fortum have developed oxyfuel combustion technology that aims to reduce the CO2 emissions of power plants. In 2010, Metso's 4-MW test plant in Tampere, Finland, was modified for oxyfuel combustion, resulting in the biggest ...
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Clarke Energy wins business of the year award
Knowsley Council has awarded Clarke Energy the Business of the Year Award for the Knowsley Business and Regeneration Awards 2012. The award was sponsored by Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership. Clarke Energy faced stiff competition from the other nominees Jaguar Land Rover, Total Glass, Counterline, Potter Group Logistics, and Glen Dimplex Home Appliances. The category for this ...
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Chile to launch new carbon tax to cut emissions
The initiative forms part of wider tax reform and is due to be detailed on Tuesday. The new measure will include incentives for thermoelectric power plants to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, the main gas blamed for causing climate change. Chile is the world No.1 copper producer and the majority of mines are powered by coal-fired thermoelectric plants, which have received heavy criticism ...
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Trump election threatens to upend green energy revolution
The surprise election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency last week has thrown a monkey wrench into the emerging green energy economy, as analysts and industry experts struggle to comprehend what four years of a Trump presidency will mean for the energy sector. Trump has offered few specific energy policy details during his 18-month presidential campaign beyond vague assertions to develop ...
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