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Coal Ash Ponds Close
2015-04-24 01:06:00| Waste Age
<a href="newsplex.com/">Newsplex</a> Dominion Virginia Power announced Friday it will close all ash ponds in the Commonwealth in compliance with new Environmental Protection Agency federal regulations. read more
Wells near Duke Energy coal ash ponds show high contamination levels
2015-04-23 04:55:34| Energy - Topix.net
Environmental groups say the results prove Duke Energy's ash ponds are polluting ground water. Duke and state regulators say there is no evidence yet that the high levels of contamination are caused by the ponds.
Utah's oldest coal plant retired in face of new EPA standards
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: The turbines of Utah's oldest coal-fired power plant have stopped spinning. Rocky Mountain Power took its 60-year-old Carbon Power Plant offline Wednesday, one day before more strict federal mercury-pollution rules went into effect. The plant's age and location in a tight canyon a few miles up the Price River from Helper made retrofitting the two-unit, 172-megawatt station a losing proposition, according to company spokesman Dave Eskelsen. The utility company will spend the next two years...
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Germany's environment minister hits back at opposition to coal levy
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany's environment minister on Monday hit back at opposition from leading members of Angela Merkel's conservatives to a proposed coal levy, saying it risked jeopardizing the chancellor's credibility ahead of the G7 summit in June. Germany has made climate one of the key issues of its G7 presidency and hopes to use the summit in Ellmau in Bavaria to encourage others to pledge tough goals to cut greenhouse gases ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December. But opposition to plans to...
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China could cut coal (mostly) by 2050
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: From a climate change perspective, China's carbon footprint is huge: It consumes nearly as much coal as every other country in the world combined. And it's the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter. But it may be possible for China to shake most of its reliance on fossil fuels, in part by producing more than 85 percent of its electricity and more than 60 percent of its total energy needs from renewables by 2050, according to a study published Monday. Showing that it's feasible for China to...
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