Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Should The U.S. Build More Nuclear Power Plants? (With Live Poll)
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The need for energy in this country is enormous, and it appears will continue to grow. Coal and oil are criticized for their pollution. The U.S. ...

2. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the ...

3. 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... from coal-fired power plants in the context of the increasing demand for energy, and dealing with local impacts of mercury contamination. The single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is ...

4. A system that’s worth its salt
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... take care of these remaining particles — mostly industrial pollutants — the researchers suggest the unit could be combined with a conventional charcoal filter system, thus achieving pure, safe drinking ...

5. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
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... businesses can base their plans on. Rowe, whose Chicago-based electric utility holding company has already closed many of its coal-burning plants and plans to eliminate all of its 15 million tons of greenhouse ...

6. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

7. In Profile: Alex Slocum
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... place to promote the development and deployment of these technologies along with modular nuclear plants and liquefied coal or biomass for transportation fuels, he says, “The U.S. could essentially be energy ...

8. ENERGY: Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out?
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The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. ...

9. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

10. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

11. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
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... now, if Congress doesn’t act, the EPA could require much more sudden and drastic changes such as immediately shutting down coal plants that are heavy emitters of CO2. As a result, he said, that puts pressure ...

12. Power from down under
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... deep mine shafts for coal or minerals, and even from the pressure of water when a reservoir fills up behind a new dam. “Wherever there are existing faults, they will induce mostly minor quakes.” Toksoz’s ...

13. eSolar strikes deal to build power plants in China (AP)
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... on coal, imported gas and oil.  ...

14. Pa. high court backs ruling on mercury pollution (AP)
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AP - Pennsylvania's highest court is upholding a decision to throw out a state rule that required coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions beyond federal standards. ...

15. Federal Officials Promote Use of Coal Waste on U.S. Farms
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Federal officials are promoting the use of a chalky residue from coal-burning power plants as a fertilizer on U.S. farms, even as regulators simultaneously consider new rules for the waste, which contains ...

16. Federal Officials Promote Use of Coal Waste on U.S. Farms
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Federal officials are promoting the use of a chalky residue from coal-burning power plants as a fertilizer on U.S. farms, even as regulators simultaneously consider new rules for the waste, which contains ...

17. Shaw equips coal-fired units with air quality control tech
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Louisiana company expects three Maryland power plants to produce cleaner energy, reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

18. China's costly climate goals: report (AFP)
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AFP - China will need to invest up to 30 billion dollars a year to meet its goal of curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the state press said Friday, citing an academic study.

19. NY AG: AES Corp. agrees to pollution disclosures (AP)
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AP - AES Corp., which operates several coal-fired power plants in the U.S., has agreed to put more information about global warming in its public financial disclosures. ...

20. Greenpeace dumps 18 tonnes of coal at Swedish govt offices (AFP)
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AFP - Environmental activists from Greenpeace dumped 18 tonnes of German coal outside Sweden's government offices Wednesday to protest against the Swedish state's coal plant ownership abroad.  ...

21. EPA to develop rule to cut toxic emissions at power plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to issue rules by November 2011 to cut toxic air pollution at electric generating plants that burn coal or fuel oil, a federal court ruled.  ...

22. EPA to develop rule to cut toxic emissions at power plants
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to issue rules by November 2011 to cut toxic air pollution at electric generating plants that burn coal or fuel oil, a federal court ruled.  ...

23. EPA to develop rule to cut toxic emissions at power plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to issue rules by November 2011 to cut toxic air pollution at electric generating plants that burn coal or fuel oil, a federal court ruled.  ...

24. EPA to limit mercury emissions from power plants by 2011 (McClatchy Newspapers)
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency will put controls on the emissions of hazardous pollutants such as mercury from coal-fired power plants for the first time by November ...

25. Report: Is CCS an option for India?
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The country’s coal-powered ultra mega power plants could be retrofitted with carbon capture and sequestration tech to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, study suggests. ...

26. We Energies says carbon-capture project works
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An $8 million pilot project in Wisconsin successfully showed that carbon dioxide can be captured and kept from being released from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, We Energies and two partners ...

27. E: The Environmental Magazine - Is this the end of coal? Momentum is building to block new coal-fired power plants and end mountaintop removal mining. Is there enough political will to make the break?
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September 1, 2009 -- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Patrick O'Hara, who works next door to a coal-burning power plant in Chicago, was recently diagnosed with asthmatic... ...

28. Ohio Edison To Repower Coal Plant With Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Ohio Edison Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has agreed in a consent decree to repower one of its coal-fired power plants using primarily biomass, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental ...

29. Beijing closing coal plants in environmental move (AP)
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AP - China has taken advantage of a drop in electricity demand due to the global financial crisis to speed up a campaign to close small coal-fired power plants and improve its battered environment, an ...

30. CHP Electricity Powers Cars 22 Times Farther Than Ethanol!
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Cheap fossil fuel has allowed us to waste the majority of our energy, filling the planet with pollution and waste heat. Our car engines are only 25% efficient and coal power plants are not much better. ...