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A flagship clean coal plant is a flailing mess. Does that mean the technology is doomed?
2016-07-06 15:05:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: But Kemper, a first-of-its-kind demonstration project, has been a outrageous disaster. Its now more than two years behind schedule and costs $4 billion more than its original $2.4 billion budget. As Urbina reveals through interviews and leaked documents, the project has been plagued by awful mismanagement by Southern Company and possible fraud. And Mississippi ratepayers now have to pay for these overruns. You can find all the grisly details in Urbinas piece, but I do want to offer a few stray...
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China top polluter Hebei province promises to clean up act
2016-07-06 04:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Northern China's Hebei, home to seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities, has pledged to double up its efforts to tackle hazardous pollution following an environment ministry report accusing the province of failing to rein in law-breaking industries. Hebei, which surrounds the capital Beijing and is responsible for about a quarter of China's total steel output, is one of the front lines in a "war on pollution" designed to head off growing public disquiet about the environmental impact of three...
Carbon prices are way down, thanks to the Supreme Courts hold on Clean Power Plan
2016-07-06 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A temporary halt to the federal governments plan to cut electric power plant emissions has caused carbon prices in the Northeasts only cap-and-trade program to plummet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Carbon prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, have fallen 40 percent since the Supreme Courts decision in February to stay the Clean Power Plan -- from their peak at $7.50 per metric ton of carbon dioxide in December to $4.53 per ton in June. RGGI is Americas...
Southern Company Clean Coal Project Scrutinized
2016-07-06 00:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Newspaper Investigates, Utility Claims Global Leadership Detailed look at stalled clean coal project read more
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'The New York Times' Investigates An Ailing Clean Coal Project
2016-07-05 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Kemper Project is an electrical generating station currently under construction in Kemper County, Miss. The plant has been held up as a model of the Obama administration's efforts to promote new, clean energy technologies, but the project is two years behind schedule, still not operational, and more than $4 billion over budget. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ian Urbina of The New York Times about the Kemper Project and the administration's clean energy policy. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A key part...
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