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Coal
EPA Settles with Deseret to the Tune of $35,000
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Clean Air Act settlement with Utah-based Deseret Generation & Transmission Co-operative (Deseret) resolving alleged violations at the coal-fired Bonanza Power Plant.
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Coal
DOE to Offer Up to $8B in Loan Guarantees for Advanced Fossil Energy Projects
Last week, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a draft loan guarantee solicitation for “innovative and advanced” fossil energy projects that “substantially reduce greenhouse gas and other air pollution.”
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Solar
BLM Withdraws Solar-Designated Federal Lands from Mining Claims
A public land order approved by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Friday extends the withdrawal of 303,900 acres of federal land within 17 zones designated for solar power from new mining claims.
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Coal
FirstEnergy to Shutter 2 GW of More Coal Capacity on MATS Cost Concerns
FirstEnergy Corp. plans to shutter two coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania this fall—a total capacity of 2,080 MW—citing high costs of compliance with current and future environmental rules and a "continued low market price for electricity."
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Business
Power Conservation to Preserve Reliability Urged in Ontario, N.Y., Calif.
Soaring power demand in New York, California, and Ontario over the past week forced grid authorities to institute conservation measures.
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Coal
Hawaii Power Companies to Deactivate Oil Plants, Ramp Up Renewables
Three Hawaiian power companies plan to deactivate a total of 226 MW of oil-fired generating units, convert remaining baseload plants to cycling duty, and substantially ramp up use of renewables by 2016.
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Nuclear
Competition for SMR DOE Funding Heats Up
Three companies vying for a $452 million cost-sharing funding opportunity through the Energy Department to help commercialize their small modular reactor (SMR) designs made major announcements over the past weeks.
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Nuclear
Remembering Masao Yoshida, Nuclear Engineer, Fukushima Plant Chief
Masao Yoshida, a nuclear engineer who served as plant chief during the March 11, 2011, catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, died on Tuesday from esophageal cancer. He was 58.
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Legal & Regulatory
CBO Scopes Out Pros and Cons of a Carbon Tax
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office confirms that a carbon tax would mean substantial revenues for the government. But the impacts would be many, varied—and unequal.