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Legal & Regulatory
House OKs Grid-Siting Reform, but Only in the West
The bill that the U.S. House passed 219-212 in late June to establish a cap-and-trade regime for control of global warming gases also includes new authority for overriding states on siting power lines. But the new authority only applies to the West.
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Legal & Regulatory
Uranium: A Strange and Fascinating Story
Everything you want to, or should, know about uranium mining and processing is in a new book by Tom Zoellner, not including the terrifying threat of crocodiles in northern Australia.
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Legal & Regulatory
TREND: The Realities of the Nuclear Renaissance Emerge
Even as hype about the U.S. nuclear renaissance is quieting down—a result of economic woes and unrealistic expectations about political and regulatory developments—some developments remain. As these stories from the nation’s media suggest, the building of new nuclear plants in the U.S. may move ahead at a slower, more measured pace.
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Supply Chains
Looking for Cash? Look at Inventory
Inventory is expensive. It sucks up, and locks up, cash. How can utility managers save inventory money? Here are some possibilities from experts in inventory management.
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Commentary
What Do Americans Think About Energy and the Environment?
Most Americans simply don’t have clue about energy and environmental issues, according to a Zogby poll commissioned by the conservative Manhattan Institute.
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Commentary
Global Warming: It’s a Regional Zero-Sum Game
Why Americans have tuned out global-warming hype, and why they are right to do so.
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HR
Power to Your People, Right On
Educating a workforce about the concept of business acumen—going beyond financial literacy and developing a true understanding of what it takes for an organization to make money—is the key to producing real, bottom-line results.
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General
Bring on that Global Warming
By Kennedy Maize Here’s a hoot. The recent global cooling we have seen would have been cooler without global warming. That’s the claim of Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists. In a letter to the Washington Post on July 27, Ekwurzel objected to a column by conservative George Will, who has taken […]
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News
UK Backs Plans for 295-MW Biomass Plant
The UK government has approved MGT Power’s proposed £500 million Tees Renewable Energy Plant, paving the way for construction to begin. When completed in late 2012, the 295-MW baseload plant in Teesport, near Middlesbrough, will be one of the largest biomass plants in the world.
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News
TransAlta Launches Hostile Bid for Canadian Hydro as Exelon Gives Up on NRG
TransAlta Corp. on Monday launched a hostile takeover bid of C$653.7 million (C$1.5 billion in enterprise value) for renewables giant Canadian Hydro Developers, offering shareholders C$4.55 per share in cash. The energy giant said that the move followed a seven-month failed effort to negotiate an acquisition transaction with Canadian Hydro.