The uranium mining company that started a project in Goliad County has received a draft mine permit from the state.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued the draft permit to Uranium Energy Corp. and will accept public comment for 30 days, a news release from the uranium company stated. This would be the first such [...]

Uranerz Energy Corporation is pleased to announce that it has submitted applications to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (”NRC”) and the Land Quality Division of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (”WDEQ”) for licenses and permits to construct and operate in-situ recovery (”ISR”) uranium facilities on its Nichols Ranch and Hank projects located in [...]

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is working to establish guidelines for drilling companies along the Fayetteville Shale.
Companies must now obtain permits from the state’s Oil and Gas Commission to drill for natural gas in the formation, which stretches across much of northern Arkansas. They also must get letters of authorization from the state to [...]

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is revamping proposed regulations that would provide uniform rules for drilling companies along the Fayetteville Shale, Director Teresa Marks said Friday.
Over the next few weeks the department will work with industry representatives and others to revamp the regulations that were first proposed earlier this month, Marks told members of [...]

Canadian Royalties Inc. announces that the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Raglan South Nickel Project (RSNP) was deposited with the Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks (MDDEP) on April 10, 2007. In accordance with the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA), the MDDEP is the administrator of the [...]

Recent additions to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council have all come from the oil and gas industry, which could hinder the council on matters regarding water discharge — a key element of the state’s energy industry.
When terms for three of the seven-member council expired at the end of January, Freudenthal appointed Craig Newman, David [...]

Dynegy Corp. chief Bruce Williamson met with the Sierra Club to discuss eight proposed coal plants.
Following Dynegy’s merger with LS Power last week, Dynegy shifted into a plant developer role, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. Williamson met with representatives from the environmental group in Washington to talk about the eight proposed plants.
Williamson said though the [...]

DURANT — Senator Jay Paul Gumm, and the Citizens Organizing for Resources and Environment, spoke out against the construction of the coal-fired power plant that TXU purposes to build in Fannin County. Experts in several scientific and health fields spoke to approximately 60 people in the Fine Arts Building at Southeastern Oklahoma State University [...]

When the soil in Roger Muggli’s fields turned bad last year, damaging more than 300 acres of alfalfa, the third-generation farmer quickly named a culprit: coal-bed methane drilling along the nearby Tongue River.
Muggli’s finger-pointing has made him few friends in a region where economic development is desperately needed and future coal-bed methane production could mean [...]

MILES CITY, Mont. — When the soil in Roger Muggli’s fields turned bad last year, damaging more than 300 acres of alfalfa, the third-generation farmer quickly named a culprit: coal-bed methane drilling along the nearby Tongue River.
Muggli’s finger-pointing has made him few friends in a region where economic development is desperately needed and future coal-bed [...]