Environmental groups warned Tuesday that plans for more coal-fired power plants in the Southwest will worsen the threat of global warming and undermine the states’ conservation efforts.
A report by Environmental Defense and Colorado-based Western Resource Advocates says the greenhouse gas emissions from the roughly dozen coal-fired plants planned or recently built will be the equivalent [...]
Vattenfall AB, Alcan Inc., Duke Energy Corporation and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) will work with other leading industries and financial institutions to accelerate the evolution of carbon trading as one of the key components to addressing climate change. This cooperation was announced today at a press conference at the World Economic Forum’s annual [...]
Xcel Energy, which is planning a wind power marketing initiative in North Dakota, wants to charge too much for the renewable electricity, wind energy development supporters say. State regulators are wondering whether any premium is justified.
Xcel’s Windsource program would offer North Dakota customers 100 kilowatt-hour blocks of wind energy for about $3, if [...]
Austin Energy is considering using so-called clean coal to meet the city’s future power needs. The utility’s plans to secure long-term land and water rights on property in Matagorda County, in partnership with San Antonio’s public utility, were publicized prematurely by an Austin American-Statesman article on Jan. 20. Now, Austin Energy says it must accelerate [...]
Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, R-Waco, on Wednesday introduced legislation calling for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to place a six-month moratorium on permit approval for new coal plants in Texas.
Power companies plan to build 18 new coal plants in Texas, including 11 planned by Dallas-based TXU Corp. Nine of the proposed plants are in [...]
The new Democratic-led U.S. Congress is promoting energy policies that focus more on renewable energy than oil and natural gas drilling, but some officials are still determined to open more federal lands to energy exploration.
Speaking at an energy policy forum Tuesday, pro-drilling lawmakers Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., said they want [...]
Duke Energy Corp. is seeking a federal cap on carbon-dioxide emissions at the same time the company is pushing for state approval to build two coal plants at its Cliffside facility in North Carolina.
Ten major companies, including Charlotte-based Duke (NYSE:DUK), are partnering with environmental groups to call for a nationwide limit on carbon-dioxide emissions that [...]
Empire Energy Corporation International announces that it has concluded new financing arrangements initially announced November 15, 2006 with an international investor group that will provide the capital to enable it to continue to execute major oil and gas exploration over its Tasmanian license area commencing early in 2007. Empire has received to date $8.5 [...]
Better Biodiesel, Inc. , a producer of biodiesel fuel using its proprietary biodiesel manufacturing technology, today announced that it has made its first commercial shipment of ASTM-D6751-standard biodiesel fuel to heavy hauling trucker Christensen Brothers of Spanish Fork, Utah.
“Christensen Brothers is pleased with the performance and attributes of the Company’s fuel including its potential to [...]
Southridge Enterprises, Inc. is pleased to announce that Southridge Ethanol Inc. (”Southridge”), the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, has entered into an ethanol sales and marketing agreement (the “ITEC Agreement”) with ITEC Refining and Marketing Company Ltd. (”ITEC”) of Barrington, Illinois, USA, in relation to the ethanol produced in the Southridge plant in Sledge, Mississippi.
ITEC [...]
