Tanzanian politicians are pushing for the exploration of alternative sources of energy, including exploiting the country’s uranium reserves for electricity generation.
Uranium, one of the world’s most expensive minerals, is known to exist in Tanzania but has not been exploited despite the enactment of an Atomic Energy legislation in 2003.
Uranium has not been included in the [...]

India has to aggressively exploit its limited uranium reserves while seeking opportunities for international nuclear cooperation without affecting the autonomy of its atomic energy programme, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said today.
Addressing members of the Department of Atomic Energy at a function here to mark 50 years of Asia’s first nuclear research reactor Apsara, [...]

Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Monday she will change the state’s permitting process in order to fight air pollution and announced her opposition to “dirty” coal-fired power plants that Gov. Rick Perry ordered fast-tracked through the permitting system.
“We first need to look to clean burning natural gas, wind energy, other renewables [...]

Arch Coal Inc. said Thursday that Brian Jennings was elected to its board of directors effective immediately. He will serve on the board’s finance and audit committees.
Steven Leer, Arch Coal’s chairman and CEO, said in a statement, “Brian’s expertise in corporate finance for the global energy industry will be extremely valuable to the board and [...]

For the third year in a row, Progress Energy’s coal-burning plant in Crystal River has been named among the dirtiest power plants in the nation in a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project in Washington, D.C.
Crystal River, which has four coal units in addition to a nuclear power generator, ranked among the [...]

Utilities that cause pollution through processes like coal burning are contributing funds to a climate scientist who has been skeptical of the prevailing view that fossil fuel emissions contribute to global warming.
According to information available publicly, at least one utility, the Intermountain Rural Electric Association of Sedalia, Colorado, has contributed $100,000 to Patrick J. Michaels, [...]

Coal producer Solid Energy is pushing ahead with investigations into a coal-fired power station on the West Coast despite calls for New Zealand to get rid of them.
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Dr Morgan Williams this week said coal and gas-fired stations should be removed. They could be replaced within 35 years by renewable forms [...]

The largest power plant in South Dakota history, a proposal already under fire from environmental advocates for using coal instead of wind, would be 50 percent more expensive than previously estimated, according to utility executives.
Otter Tail Power Co. officials told Minnesota regulators last week that the price of building the coal-burning Big Stone II plant [...]

Independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn objected to Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed permits for 11 coal-fired plants and called today for stricter rules to fight pollution.
Strayhorn, the state comptroller, said she would order reviews of any permits issued for the plants and “slow the process to rewrite new rules that ensure clean [...]

The FutureGen project, which aims to advance energy technology, is ready to narrow its field.
Ohio finds out today if it will remain among seven states vying to host a $1 billion project to demonstrate cleaner burning of coal to generate electricity.
The FutureGen project, to begin operating in 2012, is planned as a model for future [...]