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The coal ash spill in December 2008 at the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired Kingston power plant may have triggered regulatory action, but it wasn't the first or the most devastating…
Environmental
Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
Legal battles to stall the 11-GW Belo Monte hydroelectric dam—being built on the Xingu River in the Amazon forest for one of the world’s largest power plants—are raging on in…
Regulatory attention is rarely welcome in the best of times. When the attention is focused on a practice that has been standard operating procedure for more than a century—especially a…
In 2015, Germany added more renewable power than ever before, but now the government is putting strict limits on future renewables growth. As Germany’s Energiewende slows, some surprising competitors are…
With its expected 30% to 50% lower capital expense and 20% to 40% lower operating cost than traditional zero-discharge systems, a new approach to compliance with the EPA’s effluent limitation…
New reports released this week see big growth in renewables from the recently extended federal tax credits, but big uncertainty due to the possible end of the Clean Power Plan…
Rallied by the Supreme Court's unprecedented stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan, a coalition of 20 states has asked the high court to stay another disputed…
Power generators consumed 34% of total U.S. energy uses from fossil fuels and accounted for 39% of the nation’s carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2014—a fraction of…
Despite the unprecedented stay by the Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan will withstand legal challenges "based on its merits," predicted the agency's head, Gina McCarthy,…