Monthly Archives: January 2010
Costs Pile Up for Wyo Coal
Despite strong profits, it has been a bruising 12 months for the U.S. coal industry, which came under fire for mountaintop removal mining and coal ash waste in the eastern half of the country. Continue reading
Disclosing Carbon Risks
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voted 3-2 along party lines to force companies to consider their potential exposure to climate change when it comes to filing their financial statements. While the position is one that the Obama administration has advocated, its genesis formed a few years earlier as investor and environmental groups joined hands to petition the body for uniform rules. Continue reading
Listen to T. Boone Pickens live at 1:00 PM
T. Boone Pickens will be interviewed today at 1:00 PM on the Green Revolution radio show by Pickens Plan District Leaders Wayne Browser and John Nobles about the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act. Continue reading
New Directions in Transmission
In countries around the world, there is a growing need to move what is expected to be significant amounts of wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity from sparsely populated remote regions to the cities where demand is great. Continue reading
Kansas Coal Plant Reemerges Like B-Movie Zombie
Proponents of an 895-megawatt coal-fired power plant expansion project in Holcomb, Kansas have resubmitted an application for an air permit. The first application was rejected by the state environmental agency in 2007 due to concerns over air and global warming pollution. This was the first coal plant air permit rejected on those grounds in the United States. Continue reading
Remember When Kansas Led the Nation?
A recent article from Earthjustice brings back fond memories of 2007, when Kansas regulated greenhouse gases for the first time ever.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment emerged from its Republican shell like an Amish kid in Rumspringa to shout, “Why regulate? Because I CAN.” That’s right, Kansaswas the first state in the US to voluntarily block a coal plant specifically because it would increase heat trapping emissions. Continue reading
Coal Plant Time Lapse
Coal Power Plant Timelapse from Jeff Grewe on Vimeo. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
From MI, But Just Like Sunflower Electric in KS
As a rural electric co-op awaits a state decision on its push to build a controversial new coal-fired power plant in Rogers City, evidence continues to accumulate that the firm does not need the plant and, instead, could buy cheaper electricity from a significantly cleaner-burning facility in southwestern Michigan. Continue reading
Early Closure of Oregon’s Only Coal-Fired Power Plant Has National Implications
Oregon utility Portland General Electric (PGE) is maneuvering to shut down the state’s only coal-fired power plant in 2020, two decades ahead of schedule. It’s a significant move that some observers say may prompt a shift in United States coal use.
“It could be game-changing,” said Jeff Bissonnette, the organizing director for the Portland-based Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon, a ratepayer advocacy group. Continue reading
What Might Have Been
The long-awaited air quality permit application from Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build a 900mw coal-fired power plant has been submitted to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Sunflower once said it had to have the permit by the end of the 2008 legislative session, then by June of 2009, then that it would submit the permit application by early November, then by the end of the year, then before the start of the legislative session.
So why the delay? Continue reading
