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Next week is carbon management for power plants
Carbon Management For Power Plants 2011 takes place next week on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco. Don't miss this opportunity to meet with Chief Environmental Officers, VPs of Technology and other senior industry professionals from the U.S.A.'s leading power plant operators and examine immediate, short-term opportunities for investing in technologies for ...
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Nation’s Utility Commissioners united on power plant carbon pollution
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners approved a key resolution on Wednesday addressing work by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop federal standards limiting carbon pollution from existing power plants. Ralph Cavanagh, Co-Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Energy Program, made this comment: “The nation’s utility ...
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EPA’s Ongoing Outreach Shows Commitment to Strong Power Plant Carbon Pollution Limits
David Doniger, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Climate and Clean Air Program, made this comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s supplemental notice today on its Clean Power Plan to clean up dangerous carbon pollution. “The EPA's ongoing and unprecedented outreach illustrates its determination to get these critical public health and climate ...
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Supreme Court Reaffirms EPA Authority to Curb Power Plant Carbon Pollution
Building on two prior decisions affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards like those recently proposed for power plants, the Supreme Court today upheld the core of EPA’s associated permitting requirements for new carbon pollution sources. At issue was whether large new industrial facilities emitting carbon pollution – including ...
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NRDC: President sounds a call to action on climate change
Vowing to confront the number-one environmental threat facing the nation, President Obama pledged in his historic second inaugural address Monday to confront climate change. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “This is a call to action against the climate chaos that is sweeping our nation and threatening our future. Now it's ...
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House Panel Weakens Protections for Clean Air, Water
The House Appropriations Interior and Environment Committee today pushed through a flawed spending bill that would seriously undermine the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect the public from breathing dirty air and drinking polluted water. The following is a statement from Franz Matzner, associate director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense ...
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NRDC Launches TV Ad Countering Polluters’ Lies About Power Plant Carbon Pollution Limits
The Natural Resources Defense Council today unveiled a new ad striking back at a disinformation campaign waged by Big Polluters intent on subverting the country’s first-ever carbon pollution standards in order to protect their profits. The 30-second NRDC ad highlights a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study and National Mining Association (NMA) radio ad that both suggested electric bills would ...
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NRDC: Americans in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana and New Hampshire Back New Limits on Power Plant Carbon Pollution
Most Americans in four key senators’ states support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mission to protect health and the environment, and want the agency to limit dangerous carbon pollution from power plants, according to a new poll commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Conducted by Public Policy Polling, the separate polls in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana ...
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Industry Sees Warning on Power Plant Carbon Rules in Supreme Court Decision
A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas permitting program won't directly impact its efforts to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants. However, the June 23 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia is providing plenty of rhetorical ammunition to industry groups that argue the agency's proposed carbon dioxide standards for ...
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Robert Redford calls on President to fight climate change now with limits on power plant carbon pollution
In a new multimedia campaign, Robert Redford is challenging President Obama to act now on climate change by reining in carbon pollution from the nation’s biggest source, coal-fired power plants. “Four months ago, President Obama spoke of our obligation to combat climate change, saying failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” said Redford. “I ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Can Help Power Plants Reduce Carbon Pollution
Carbon capture and storage technology has a proven track record and is ready to be deployed to help new power plants meet proposed federal standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution, a Natural Resources Defense Council climate expert told Congress on Wednesday. “All aspects of…carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems have been demonstrated at commercial scale industrial ...
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NRDC Tip Sheet: 8 Things We Hate About Summer Will Worsen with Climate Change
With July 4th upon us, the Natural Resources Defense Council is releasing a tip sheet today about eight summertime woes that will worsen if climate change isn’t combatted soon, along with steps individuals and the nation can take to ease the misery. NRDC’s tip sheet highlights these summer woes: Heat waves, bad air alert days, insects (ticks and mosquitoes), poison ivy, sneezing and ...
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Intelex Blog: EPA Delays Emissions Rules as Energy Companies Prepare for a Tumultuous Year
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that it will delay releasing the final rules for new power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The rules are now scheduled to be released sometime this summer. The EPA’s 2015 Plan for the Carbon Emissions Rules The rules for new power plants were expected to be released on January 8, 2015, but the EPA held a press ...
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NRDC Expert: President’s Climate Plan Can Set U.S. on “Right Track To Cut Dangerous Pollution That Threatens Our Health And Well-Being”
President Obama’s climate action plan deserves the nation’s support because it will reduce dangerous carbon pollution and other heat-trapping emissions driving climate change, promote clean energy and make communities more resilient, according to Natural Resources Defense Council climate expert Daniel Lashof. Lashof, who heads NRDC’s Climate and Clean Air Program, is testifying ...
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EPA takes critical step in President’s climate action plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today advanced the President’s climate action plan with a revised and common sense proposal to curb carbon pollution from new electricity plants. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, issued this statement: “We have an obligation to protect future generations from climate change. This is a critical step in that ...
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Response to the department of energy and climate change’s publication of draft energy bill
The Carbon Trust responds to the Department of Energy and Climate Change's publication of draft Energy Bill on Tuesday 22 May 2012. Simon Retallack, Strategy Manager at the Carbon Trust, said: "Electricity market reform is critical to ensure that our carbon and energy security objectives are met over the coming years. Providing a stable and long term price for low carbon energy is essential to ...
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Clean Air Leaders Hail EPA Public Hearings On Climate Action to Protect Health, Wildlife, And the Environment
With climate change a present danger to the American people’s health, environment and the nation’s wildlife, clean air leaders today hailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s historic public hearings this week on its Clean Power Plan to curb carbon pollution from existing power plants, a key driver of climate change. Results from a new Green For All poll, released during the ...
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New Law Saddles Kentuckians with Big Electricity Bills; Aims to Block Benefits of Fighting Climate Change
A new Kentucky law approved late yesterday will raise Kentuckians’ electricity bills. This bill mirrors efforts that big polluters and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have unsuccessfully pushed in other states to undermine upcoming federal standards reducing carbon pollution from dirty power plants—the key driver of climate change. David Doniger, director of the ...
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EPA Finalizes Greenhouse Gas Permit for $500M CCI Petroleum Facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to CCI Corpus Christi, LLC. The company plans to construct petroleum process facilities near Corpus Christi, TX. “Climate change contributes to many types of challenges, especially for coastal areas like Corpus Christi,” said ...
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EPA Issues GHG Permit to OCI Beaumont; $83 million economic development ;
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to the OCI Beaumont LLC, methanol and ammonia plant in Nederland, Texas. “Companies in Texas are expanding their operations and production to meet growing demands and also meeting our climate goals,” said EPA Regional Administrator ...
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