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Dynegy gets pollution waiver for Ill. coal plants
2013-11-22 01:14:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Illinois Pollution Control Board agreed Thursday to give a Texas company extra time to install pollution controls at five Illinois coal-fired power plants, saying that requiring the upgrades sooner would pose an economic hardship.
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Panel grants pollution waiver for Ill. coal plants
2013-11-21 20:54:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Illinois Pollution Control Board has agreed to give a Texas company extra time to install pollution controls at five Illinois coal-fired power plants.
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Panel grants pollution waiver for Ill. coal plants
2013-11-21 19:16:04| Energy - Topix.net
Houston-based Dynegy Inc. is acquiring the plants from Ameren Corp., but said the deal hinged on getting a waiver allowing it to delay installing soot-control equipment until 2020.
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Global Boom in Coal Plants Begs for Carbon Capture Solution
2013-11-21 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The smoldering debate over whether coal has a future in a low-carbon world has flared up with new intensity in Warsaw, the site of this month's annual United Nations negotiations [3] toward a global climate treaty. With world coal use growing at a staggering pace, top climate diplomats have used the global stage to take a much more aggressive stance against the coal industry. They are demanding that companies move quickly to leverage technology to capture and bury their planet-heating emissions...
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CO2 emission increase driven by China, coal
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Carbon snapshot Emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and cement production reached a new high in 2012, rising 2.2 per cent over 2011 due chiefly to an increase in coal-burning China, scientists say. Output of CO2 from these sources was a record 35 billion tonnes, 58 per cent above 1990, the benchmark year for calculating greenhouse-gas levels, according to the annual analysis by an international group called the Global Carbon Project. "Based on estimates of economic activity in 2013,...
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