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Legal Deadline Set for EPA's Coal Ash Rule
01.29.2014 | Sonal Patel
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must issue a proposed revision of its Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D rules regulating coal combustion residuals no later than Dec. 19, 2014, under a consent decree reached between the agency and environmental…
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Obama in SOTU: “All-of-the-Above” Energy Strategy Is Working
01.29.2014 | Sonal Patel
President Obama spoke briefly about energy in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, though he declared at the outset: “The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to…
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Safety and Oil & Gas Boom Focus of N.D. Generation Conference
01.30.2014 | Aaron Larson
The 35th Annual Energy Generation Conference (EGC) held in Bismarck, N.D., Jan. 28–30, highlighted the importance of North Dakota to national discussions of energy policy. The opening session focused on the oil and natural gas boom currently taking place in…
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Okla. Asks Supreme Court to Review EPA Regional Haze Suit
01.30.2014
Oklahoma has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit that challenges the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) authority to reject a state regional haze plan and replace it with a federal implementation plan (FIP). Last July, in a 2–1…
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Idling of Two Coal-Fired Plants Will Cost Jobs
01.28.2014 | Aaron Larson
Big Rivers Electric Corp.—a member-owned, not-for-profit, generation and transmission cooperative serving western Kentucky—plans to idle two of its coal-fired power plants following the loss of its largest industrial load. The D.B. Wilson Station, a 417-MW plant located in Centertown, Ky.,…
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GE Hitachi, Feds Reach Settlement in False Claims ESBWR Lawsuit
01.28.2014 | Sonal Patel
General Electric Hitachi (GE Hitachi) will pay $2.7 million under a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the company made false statements about a non-safety component of its advanced nuclear Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor…
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NRC Delays Issuance of Final Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule
01.24.2014 | Sonal Patel
Issuance of the revised final Waste Confidence Decision and Temporary Storage Rule will be delayed until at least early October, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced on Thursday. The NRC cited "time lost" and a "lapse of appropriations" during the…
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