Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The House of Representatives is expected to make a landmark decision on our energy and climate future as early as tomorrow. The 1,200 page American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act will establish a cap and trade system for greenhouse...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The coal lobby can't catch a break these days. First utilities reduce coal demand in favor of increasing purchases of cheap natural gas, then the EPA proposes its endangerment finding on carbon dioxide pollution, then mountaintop removal gets called into account...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Despite the fact that the number of rigs exploring for natural gas in the US has dropped by over 40% in the past six months, the supply of natural gas in the market remains stubbornly high. In fact, weak industrial...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Old Dominion Electric Power Corporation's plan to build a 1,500MW supercritical pulverized coal-fired power facility in Dendron, Virginia comes with significant economic risk that can raise the "expected" cost of this facility by tens of billions of dollars over time. Costs...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
While the coal industry has been very receptive to meeting the needs of a large coal-to-liquids (CTL) industry in the United States, it seems unclear how they would actually service these new customers with domestic coal supplies at reasonable prices....continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution
Background Baard Energy is proposing to build a $5.5 billion synthetic-fuel plant known as the Ohio River Clean Fuels LLC ("ORCF") facility that would produce 53,000 barrels of liquid fuels from coal per day and provide at least 250MW of...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Solving Global Warming
While oil and natural gas have come off the highs in a meaningful way over the past few months, coal is still riding high. The price of Northern Appalachian Coal has nearly tripled over the past year due to strong...continued→
