Oregon should stop dragging out air permit for coal facility: Agenda 2013 OregonLive.com John Kitzhaber and his Washington state counterpart, Jay Inslee, teamed up last month on a letter decrying the exportation of U.S. coal, which is likely to increase in coming years thanks largely to Asian energy demands. "We cannot seriously take the ...
Cuomo still stalling on clearing hydraulic fracturing for New York Hot Air The governor has been dithering between continuing New York's current ban on hydraulic fracturing or allowing fuel companies to go for it in at least the state's southern portion, and has several times declined to give his approval despite his past ...
NGO seeks switch to green energy Times of India "Delhi government and in particular the CM should understand that the real solution to power crisis does not lie in being over dependent on coal-based technologies which are becoming expensive, but increasing investment in renewable energy like solar ...
Rice University to research oil and gas extraction processes Houston Business Journal Rice University researchers are in the process of creating a model to predict how brine, oil and gas react to different conditions as they are drawn up from a well to the surface. Three Rice professors — Walter Chapman, Kenneth Cox and Mason Tomson ...
'Zombies' scare up interest in ISU environment conference Bloomington Pantagraph The conference is sponsored by the College of Business (which offers a minor in business as it relates to the environment and sustainability), Katie School of Insurance, the marketing department and ISU's Office of Sustainability. Zombie Rule 7, as ...
Exporting the Future of Coal Motley Fool Government policies and low natural gas prices have led to significant switchovers among utilities from coal to more cost-effective natural gas. Up to 20% of total coal-fired power generation is scheduled to be taken offline by 2017. This retracement ...
EKY power plant will stop burning coal WKYT LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Big changes are in store for a coal fired power plant in Lawrence County. Officials with Kentucky Power say in a few years the plant will no longer burn coal for electricity, and that change has some county officials ...
Could Carmakers Sell More Electric Cars With Green Energy Included? Green Car Reports The report, aimed at solar companies, details how the solar industry can benefit from teaming up with automobile companys--with their greater advertising budgets--to aim green energy at customers to go with their electric vehicles. Naturally, the ...
Partisan voices in the energy debate The Guardian Decades of detailed academic, industry and government analysis has shown repeatedly that it is possible for the UK (and the world at large) to achieve sufficient, reliable, economically viable energy services entirely from renewables. Crucially ...
Community Meetings Planned To Talk Clark's Beach Green Energy Park Patch.com The Greenport Village Board is looking for input from the public about a proposed green energy park for Clark's Beach. To that end, the board plans to schedule community outreach meetings, to present the concept to residents and to engage in dialogue ...
What's On Tap in Energy and Environment at the Texas Legislature This Week StateImpact Texas We've compiled a list of several important meetings coming up this week at the state legislature that could have an impact on Texas' energy and environment. Find out when the lege will tackle new bills that could affect everything from the concrete ...
Plans for 23000 wells buoy Wyoming's oil and gas future Casper Star-Tribune Online Each developed field could produce oil or gas for five decades. Wyoming has for years seen increased drilling and production from such fields. But if each proposal is approved, companies in the state could produce at a level rarely seen before. In ...
Petrobras announces February oil and gas production PennEnergy (press release) Petrobras announces that, in February 2013, total production of oil and natural gas in Brazil reached 2,316 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed). Including the share operated by the company for its partners, total volume produced was 2,414 ...
We Need to Get Past the Energy and Environment Debates of the 1970s Huffington Post (blog) While I have mixed emotions about these projects, there is no question that these fuel mining, transport and burning processes harm the environment. I find the blithe disregard about trade-offs and risk frequently expressed by some industry leaders and ...
Environment Ministry amends rules regarding mining project expansion Times of India For one-time capacity expansion of 25 per cent or less, coal mining projects have now been exempted from public hearing provided it had taken place at the time of obtaining the existing Environment Clearance and the mining is confined to the existing ...
Surface appearances can be so misleading: In most forests, the amount of carbon held in soils is substantially greater than the amount contained in the trees themselves, according to new research.
The Daily Docket: Hedge Funds Want Trustee to Take Over Patriot Coal Wall Street Journal- India (blog) Two hedge funds are asking that an outsider take over Patriot Coal Corp. in order to extricate it from a bitter fight with its miners union. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here. (Daily Bankruptcy Review and DBR Small Cap are daily newsletters ...
No April Fools: Obama's Green Energy Stimulus is Officially a Joke National Legal and Policy Center Three Stooges photo President Obama's alternative energy "stimulus," administered through his Department of Energy by previous Secretary Steven Chu, had already become a joke because of the failures and foibles of so many recipients of Recovery Act ...
Entrepreneurs, the Environment, and Social Value (?) Forbes There is a school of thought that creating economic value itself is a social value, which we think is true: adding something to the human environment in such a way that there is a net gain fits the definition of making social value—jobs are created ...
KKR environment makes it easy to learn: Morgan The Hindu England batsman Eoin Morgan on Monday said the friendly environment in his IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) provides a better environment for learning. "There is unity within the team. We are very good friends and so the environment makes it easy ...
Access Energy's Maggie Yu to Speak at International Green Energy Expo in ... PR Newswire (press release) CERRITOS, Calif., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Maggie Yu, Business Development Director for Access Energy, producers of the safest, lowest cost heat and pressure recovery systems for small-scale commercial and industrial applications, will present at ...
Battery Hub Puts Illinois at Forefront of Green Energy Research WUIS The Battery and Energy Storage Hub is the fourth national hub meant to speed-up the pace of green energy innovation. The other hubs focus on nuclear reactors, solar power, and energy efficient buildings. It'll get up $120 million from the federal ...
Jay Kipper and Sean Murphy on nanotechnology in oil and gas production EarthSky (blog) Nanotechnology – that is, working with matter at the scale of atoms and molecules – shows great promise for meeting challenges involved in understanding and utilizing the harder-to-reach oil and gas reservoirs of today. That's according to scientists ...
Bullock appoints ex-DNRC head to oil-and-gas board Billings Gazette Steve Bullock has appointed his predecessor's natural resources director to the state Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. Mary Sexton led the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation under Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Gov. Steve Bullock replaced her ...
From wood to coal DAWN.com A Palestinian worker covers the holes of smokes coming from a pile of smoldering wood during the process of turning wood into coal at one of the few local charcoal manufacturing shops, east of Gaza City. — AP Photo. Palestinian worker Hamuda Mahdi ... Photos: Palestinians in Gaza make coal by recycling scrap wood San Jose Mercury News media center
Drilling Down the Outlook for Oil and Gas Pipes Morningstar.com OCTG --oil country tubular goods--refers to the steel tubes and casings used primarily for drilling and producing oil and gas. This niche market has seen a stronger recovery since the 2009 trough than any other steel-consuming sector, particularly in ...
New Attitude on Immigration Skips an Old Coal Town New York Times A city of 25,000 on a mountain plateau, a former center of coal and rail, Hazleton evokes the white, ethnic Pennsylvania stronghold in "The Deer Hunter," the 1978 Robert De Niro movie. Local officials and many non-Hispanic residents said last week that ...
Civilisation and the environment: ashes to ashes The Guardian All the more so because the environmental ruin that we are unleashing could preclude any rebirth of prosperity for a very long time. But, rather than close on those Pompeiian plaster-filled voids where people once lay, let us offer the Eastertide hope ...
We are a United States based company, headquartered in Albuquerque, NM serving Non-Profit organizations with discount prices ... We, at iServUs Hosting, are happy to welcome you to our online web hosting store. Our quality cloud hosting services are excellent for charitable websites and non-profit portals, and are backed up with many service guarantees and 24/7 customer support.
