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Arizona sues U.S. EPA over coal power plant emissions
2013-02-04 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Arizona challenged in federal court U.S. environmental regulators efforts to force Arizona power companies to spend up to $1 billion to install pollution control equipment at three coal plants to reduce haze in the region's national parks. Arizona's Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement last week the emission control measures proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would not affect health or be reduce emissions visible to the human eye. "This is an absurd action that...
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Alkane Energy to study renewable energy potential for flooded coal mines
2013-02-04 01:00:00| Power Technology
Alkane Energy and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in the UK will jointly conduct a study to find out how low-cost renewable energy could be harnessed from disused, flooded coal mines.
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Duke Energy Will Close Two Aging Coal Plants
2013-02-02 13:48:40| Energy - Topix.net
Duke Energy will close two of its oldest coal-fired power plants, Riverbend west of Charlotte and Buck in Rowan County in April, two years ahead of schedule.
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Backroom Deal with Coal Company Forsakes Clean Water
2013-02-01 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A coalition of citizens groups hoping to protect Kentuckys waters filed objections today to a proposed settlement between Kentuckys Energy and Environment Cabinet and one of the states largest coal mining companies, Frasure Creek Mining. The agreement purports to resolve hundreds of water pollution violations from 2011 and 2012 at all of Frasure Creeks mines across eastern Kentucky, but the groups say that the agreement will not fix the pollution problems. We are full parties to this enforcement...
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Northwests so-called green law firms working for Big Coal
2013-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle PI: Top Northwest law firms have, for years, hired out their strategic and lobbying talents to grease big-ticket development projects, from proposed Puget Sound oil ports to trans-continental pipelines to construction of an enormous nuclear power plant in the bucolic Skagit Valley. The drive to build big, coal-export terminals, on the Columbia River at Longview and Cherry Point north of Bellingham, is getting help from some of the region`s big-name barristers, according to a new report by the Sightline...
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