General Moly Inc. provided a permitting progress update on Mt. Hope and reiterated its current expectation to receive all required permits by mid-2009.
Bruce D. Hansen, Chief Executive Officer, said, “We continue to execute against our permitting timeline and have filed applications for the key Nevada State permits. Although we recognize that we do not fully [...]
Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment Worksheet and its review process, [...]
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 [...]
FirstEnergy Corp. violated federal and state air pollution laws at a western Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, according an environmental group.
PennFuture notified Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Inc. on Tuesday that it intends to sue over alleged pollution at the Bruce Mansfield plant in Shippingport, about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The plant violated opacity standards, which relate to [...]
After over 15 years of uncertainty, uranium mining in Meghalaya took a step towards reality with the State’s Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) finally deciding to hold a public hearing at the proposed site for open cast mining.
Public hearing is mandatory as per guidelines of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
According to MSPCB member secretary D [...]
If it’s news to you, you’re not alone. Livermore National Laboratory has been testing radioactive devices – exploding depleted uranium and tritium into the open air – just 50 miles east of San Francisco since 1961. And now the lab has a permit to raise the amount of radioactive material they detonate yearly from 1,000 [...]
The Supreme Court dealt a setback to the utility industry Monday, supporting a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing power companies to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants.
In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled against Duke Energy Corp. in a lawsuit brought by the Clinton administration, part of an enforcement effort [...]
Canyon Resources Corporation, a Colorado-based mining company, is pleased to announce the start of a four-hole, 1,600-foot core drilling program at its Reward Gold Project in Nye County, Nevada. The drilling program, part of the ongoing feasibility study at Reward, will consist of four 2.5 inch-diameter holes which will provide structural and rock mechanic information [...]
The first coal-fired ethanol plant in Minnesota is expected to soon be in operation in Heron Lake, Minn.
High natural gas prices are leading new ethanol plant owners to embrace coal power, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
“The country is investing in ethanol not only as a way to reduce our reliance on oil, but as [...]
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible [...]
