Black Hills Power, a South Dakota utility with offices in Denver, filed papers Tuesday to shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in Wyoming and build a new natural gas-powered plant in Cheyenne – the first of its kind in the coal-dominated state.
Less than two hours after President Obama suggested in a post-midterm press conference that Republicans and Democrats could find common ground on proposals to develop the country’s natural gas resources, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune underscored environmentalists’ love-hate relationship with the fossil fuel.
“To be clear, natural gas More…
U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern, briefing reporters yesterday in New York City after meetings with representatives from the world’s major economies, said he doesn’t expect a United Nations meeting scheduled for later this year to produce a binding climate treaty.
Environmental groups are working feverishly behind the scenes to ensure that the climate and energy bill being cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) includes a carbon cap on the power sector, but sources closely following the debate on and off Capitol Hill say there is simply not More…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced that he has a “rough draft” of an energy bill, and he hopes to introduce it the week after next. Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, he said the bill has four titles:
- Oil spill response
- Clean energy job creation More…
TWI has obtained a copy of a “discussion draft” authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), with input from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) office, that was circulated among industry stakeholders in recent months.
The bill, which was sent to TWI by a well-connected industry lobbyist, would require that the power sector More…
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants. It hopes to implement the rules in 2012.
The move ups the pressure on lawmakers who prefer congressional action to EPA regulation but have been wary of carbon-pricing legislation. With More…
Earlier this afternoon, I speculated on what the concessions to industry in the Senate climate bill would mean for environmental groups’ support. “Is this enough for some liberal groups to withhold their support?” I asked. “Probably — although the mainstream of the environmental movement is likely to bite the More…
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson just announced a new set of automobile guidelines on a conference call with reporters — a program that aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles by 30 percent and increase fuel efficiency by 40 percent over the coming years. More…
President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It’s a small step compared to the nationwide carbon cap he hopes to institute — and which conservatives will battle tooth and nail — but it lends some quick credence to More…
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