Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
If you’ve been following the news, you know that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it is facing tens of billions of dollars in liability for
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:40:29 +0000
The Colstrip Power Plant, a four-unit, 2,094-MW coal-fired station located about 100 miles east of Billings, Montana, could see its coal supply contract nullified as a result of Westmoreland Coal Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Westmoreland operates the 25,000-acre Rosebud coal mine, among others. Rosebud is adjacent to the Colstrip plant and supplies almost all […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:07:58 +0000
It would be better to restart the bidding than have the legality of the franchise of the winning bidder questioned in court, says Poe.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:34:36 +0000
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) on Jan. 23 said a federal judge’s proposal that the utility mitigate fire danger in its service territory by trimming trees, along with inspecting and repairing thousands of miles of power lines, could cost the company as much as $150 billion this year. William Alsup, a judge in the U.S. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:48:02 +0000
While the Republican-led U.S. House and Senate in the 115th Congress was mainly focused on reviewing, for modification or repeal, several environmental rules issued under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the new Democrat majority in the House could focus on a slew of different measures, a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) suggests. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:33:31 +0000
A man from Hanzhong, Shaanxi province, was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing three neighbors in revenge for his mother’s death.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:17:39 +0000
A man who spent 25 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of killing a woman in Northeast China received 4.6 million yuan ($672,000) in compensation on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:17:18 +0000
The Supreme Court on Friday bid farewell to Justice Noel Tijam, who is set to leave the high tribunal on Saturday upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:08:55 +0000
Because compliance costs to coal- and oil-fired power plants for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) far exceed quantifiable benefits to regulating hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, the Trump administration has proposed it is not “appropriate and necessary” to regulate HAP emissions from power plants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), […]
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Read moreAnalysis based on testing mostly conducted by energy companies shows that water near all but two coal plants in Illinois is contaminated with toxic waste. The Chicago Tribune on November 28 reported that a compilation of industry-supplied data from 24 Illinois coal plants shows harmful levels of arsenic, chromium, lead, and other heavy metals in […]
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