Tag Archives: carbon
Coal is King on the Rails Now, But Maybe Not Forever
BNSF runs dozens of mile-and-a-half-long coal trains every day from mines in Wyoming to power plants. Environmental concerns might not be what sends coal trains into the history books. Railroads can make money hauling other goods and they aren’t spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new facilities to run more coal trains. Continue reading
Water Issues, Carbon, and Price of Power Top Utility Concerns
By Chris Holly for Energy Daily (from Coal Power Mag) In a clear sign of growing industry unease about the availability of water for power plant operations, utility officials recently surveyed by Black & Veatch on a host of policy … Continue reading
Clean Energy Standard Challenges Coal
By Ken Silverstein for EnergyBiz If a Clean Energy Standard is enacted, what will that mean for fossil fuels? Interestingly, the emphasis on the development of sustainable fuels is not at the exclusion of coal and natural gas. President Obama … Continue reading
Lack of Climate Policy Could Cost Investors Trillions
Continued delay in climate change policy action and lack of international coordination could cost institutional investors trillions of dollars over the coming decades, according to research released by Mercer and a group of leading global investors representing around $2 trillion in assets under management. Continue reading
Enviro Regulations Poised to Close 20% of Coal Plants
Efforts to eliminate U.S. EPA’s climate regulations will make little difference for the fate of [the coal-fired power plant] industry, said Steve Fine, a vice president with consulting group ICF International, which presented some of its new projections for coal yesterday. Continue reading
Congressional Review Act Might Not Be an Option to Fight EPA Regs
The core EPA findings and rules related to carbon mitigation were published more than 60 continuous legislative days ago, making it impossible to nullify them through a resolution of disapproval under that act. Continue reading
Tri-State G&T Moving on From Coal?
Right now, coal-fired power plants provide 70 percent of the company’s generation. Going nuclear could blunt some of the criticism about coal’s high carbon emissions, while likely opening up an entirely new battleground. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s board of directors voted recently to have its staff study nuclear as a possibility for the site in Prowers County near Holly. Board chairman Harold Thompson said the utility is dealing with rising energy costs and a tighter regulatory environment as it prepares for the future. Continue reading
MIT Researchers See Natural Gas as the Choice for Lower Carbon Emissions
In the results of a two-year study, released today, the researchers said electric utilities and other sectors of the American economy will use more gas through 2050. Under a scenario that envisions a federal policy aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, researchers found a substantial role for natural gas. Continue reading
