AEP Reaches Settlement on Ohio Coal-Fired Power Plants American Electric Power (AEP), through its subsidiary AEP Ohio, announced on Dec. 14 that it had filed a stipulated agreement with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) in support of the company’s expanded power purchase agreement. Details of the… Read More
NERC: Unprecedented Changes to Power Mix, EPA Rules Pose Reliability Challenges North America's reserve margins are trending downward, even though electricity demand has generally fallen, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) warned in a new report. The international regulatory authority established to gauge and improve the reliability of North America's… Read More
GAO: EPA Used Covert Propaganda to Promote WOTUS Rulemaking The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a decision concluding that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) use of Thunderclap—a crowd-speaking social media platform that allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash-mob style—constituted “covert propaganda,” in violation of the publicity… Read More
COP21 Climate Deal Draws Praise, Fire Delegates of 195 nations, including the U.S., on Dec. 12 reached a landmark deal at the Paris COP21 conference that commits the world to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an effort to combat the effects of climate change. Though… Read More
Coal Ash Utilization Surged in 2014 After Half-Decade of EPA Rule Uncertainty Coal ash utilization, which had stalled between 2009 and 2013 as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepared a final federal coal ash rule, increased significantly in 2014. According to the American Coal Ash Association's (ACAA's) most recent "Production and Use… Read More
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