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Duke Energy, Virginia agree to $2.5 million coal ash settlement
2015-04-03 22:21:07| Waste Management - Topix.net
Duke Energy has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with Virginia over a massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River in gray sludge, state environmental officials announced Friday. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality said the settlement would include $2.25 million in environmental projects that Duke would perform in communities affected by the spill in February 2014.
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Columbia coal terminal gets water-quality OK
2015-04-02 15:56:57| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oregon environmental regulators have ruled that a proposed coal export terminal on the Columbia River meets state and federal water-quality standards, but the project still faces an adverse ruling from another state agency and questions about its economics in a slumping coal market. The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a water-quality certification Tuesday to the proposed Coyote Island Terminal at Boardman.
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Coal Industry Lost Nearly 50,000 Jobs in Five Years
2015-04-02 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When it comes to energy, we live in transformative times. From shale oil helping to upend global markets, to explosive growth in rooftop solar, the changes were seeing in the energy industry have not only been rapid, but often unexpected. Not every part of the energy industry has fared well during these tumultuous years. In particular, coal has struggled, amid mounting concerns about its contributions to greenhouse gas pollution and increased regulatory initiatives by the Obama administration....
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Duke Energy CEO Loses $600K in Pay Over Coal Ash Pollution
2015-04-01 21:58:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.scnow.com/">The Hartsville Messenger</a> Duke Energy Corp. CEO Lynn Good saw her pay docked about $600,000 in the aftermath of last year's massive spill of collected coal ash that coated 70 miles of a North Carolina river in sludge containing toxic heavy metals. read more
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Turns out the worlds first clean coal plant is a backdoor subsidy to oil producers
2015-03-31 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The worlds first clean coal plant that is, the first full-size coal-fired power plant ever to capture and store the majority of its CO2 emissions is located in, of all places, Saskatchewan. (They should change the name to Of All Places, Saskatchewan.) According to the first financial analysis done on the project, it appears to be functioning primarily as a public subsidy to the provinces aging oil industry. This takes a little explanation. First some quick background on the project....
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