Coal-burning power plants, smog and toxic pollution are pushing the environment high on the Legislature’s agenda in 2007. Environmental lobbyists say a combination of electric companies’ massive building plans and public health worries could bring changes in how Texas deals with energy and air quality.
“I think we have great prospects,” said Luke Metzger, legislative director [...]
Developers of a refinery capable of transforming coal into clean-burning diesel fuel — and transforming the economy of Alexander County, Ill. — have been promoting their idea this week in meetings with area officials.
While the names of the investors are being kept secret, they have enlisted a retired Southern Illinois University administrator as a spokesman.
The [...]
A new Cargill Inc. subsidiary announced plans Monday to build four ethanol plants in the Midwest, each with an annual capacity of 100 million gallons.
The plants will almost triple the ethanol production capacity Cargill directly owns, Cargill spokesman Bill Brady said. Combined with service agreements Cargill has with independently owned ethanol plants, they’ll give Cargill [...]
A new Cargill Inc. subsidiary announced plans Monday to build four ethanol plants in the Midwest, each with an annual capacity of 100 million gallons.
The plants will almost triple the ethanol production capacity Cargill directly owns, Cargill spokesman Bill Brady said. Combined with service agreements Cargill has with independently owned ethanol plants, they’ll give Cargill [...]
Russia and Belarus sought Tuesday to resolve a damaging trade battle that has led Moscow to halt oil supplies to several EU nations via Belarus, causing fresh alarm in Western Europe over its reliance on Russian energy.
A delegation led by Vice-Premier Andrei Kobyakov flew to Moscow on Tuesday to find a solution to the halt [...]
Pomeroy announces proposal to extend wind energy tax credit WEST Fargo, N.D. (AP) Congressman Earl Pomeroy says he’s introducing legislation to extend the production tax credit for wind and other renewable energy projects until 2014.
Pomeroy says the wind energy industry has been disrupted when the tax credit expired three times since 1999. He’d like to [...]
A Bill has been introduced in the United States Congress to permanently ban oil drilling in a vast wildlife refuge in Alaska.
The measure has been rejected in the past, but environmentalists hope the power shift on Capitol Hill will change that.
The legislation would protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaskan coast, which covers [...]
Paul Rolke, a 300-pound Robertson County man, was so outraged by plans to build a pulverized coal power plant within sight of his ranch that he went on a hunger strike last year, drinking little more than water for more than a week.
“This technology isn’t so last century,” said Rolke, who worries about pollution from [...]
Enel SpA, Italy’s largest utility, said Friday it will build two wind farms in the United States and Canada with a combined capacity of 277 megawatts as part of a euro4 billion ($5.2 billion) investment in renewable energy.
Enel said a 250 megawatt capacity wind farm will be built in Smoky Hills, Kansas, and a 27 [...]
China’s wind and hydro power generation capacity rose sharply in 2006, in line with the government’s plan to increase production of renewable energy, the country’s top economic agency said Friday.
Wind power is the most commercially valuable renewable energy, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its Web site.
About 80 wind farms were completed in [...]
