Courtesy: Jiri Sedlacek/Wikipeida Using reclaimed water as a makeup supply for cooling tower systems has become a popular option for reducing impacts on local water resources, but it comes with…
Environmental
Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
[caption id="attachment_101564" align="alignleft" width="600"] Courtesy: Veolia Water Technologies[/caption] Power generation need not be another source of strain on diminishing freshwater resources. Well-established water reclamation technologies are enabling producers to conserve…
Meeting the requirements of the Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) means careful consideration of the various options. Both biological treatment and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) approaches have their place, but ZLD…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the next four years is going to be a very different beast than the EPA under the presidency of Barack Obama, newly confirmed EPA…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy has awarded a total of $5.9 million to seven projects focused on novel uses of carbon dioxide (CO2). The projects…
More than 7,500 pages of emails and other records released by the Oklahoma attorney general's office to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal a "close and friendly" relationship…
In a final 52–46 vote, the Senate on Friday confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The vote was mostly…
A state court ordered Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to turn over more than 2,500 emails his office withheld from open records requests relating to communications with coal, oil, and…
President Donald Trump’s drive to roll back federal regulations, especially from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will not be simple or smooth, a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney said at a…
Denmark's DONG Energy is the latest in a string of power companies that are shunning the use of coal in future generation fleets. The company said on February 8 it…