Chicago: "Power Station’s Closing Could Create Problems"
The closing of an 83-year-old coal-fired power plant near Chicago, one of the area's top polluters, will have economic consequences.
Source: Chicago News Co-op, 02/14/2012
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"Will Hurricanes Topple U.S. Wind Turbines?"
"As plans for wind farms rising out of the ocean along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts inch closer to fruition, a new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that hurricanes could destroy a significant number of turbines in some of these areas, even coming close to wiping them out."
Source: Green (NYT), 02/14/2012
"Activists Assault New Keystone XL Pipeline Bill"
"With the U.S. Senate poised to begin debate on a bill that would greenlight the controversial Keystone XL pipeline as early as Tuesday, activists and other citizens have barraged the Senate with more than 350,000 petitions opposing the legislation in less than five hours. [Ed. Note: the count surpassed 500,000 a few hours later.]"
Source: LA Times, 02/14/2012
"Obama Revives Green Agenda With Push To End Oil Industry Tax Breaks"
"President plans to spend big on green cars and biofuels as Steven Chu says US wants to lead in clean energy technology."
Source: Guardian, 02/14/2012
"Drillers Cut Natural Gas Production as Prices Drop"
"PITTSBURGH -- As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers don't make money if prices go too low — and drilling wells isn't cheap."
Source: AP, 02/13/2012
"U.S. Becomes Net Energy Exporter"
"Harry Truman was president the last time we exported more energy than we imported. Now complete energy independence may be within reach as President Obama plans to tap all domestic sources to achieve that goal."
Source: Living on Earth, 02/13/2012
"Obama To Send Budget Proposal To Hill Today"
President Obama will send his budget request for fiscal 2013 to Congress today. It is expected to fund the clean energy programs he mentioned in his State of the Union speech. But Congress, which actually appropriates the money, will have the last word. Republicans want to cut many environmental and clean-energy programs drastically. After agency-specific budget briefings today, some agency heads will explain the budget requests to Congressional committees later in the week.
Source: SEJ, 02/13/2012
"Air Sampling Reveals High Emissions From Gas Field"
"When US government scientists began sampling the air from a tower north of Denver, Colorado, they expected urban smog — but not strong whiffs of what looked like natural gas. They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural-gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest-burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change."
Source: Nature, 02/10/2012
"Nuclear Safety, Costs Loom Over OK'd Reactors"
"The nuclear industry is celebrating the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to give the go-ahead for a utility company to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first license to be granted for a new reactor in the U.S. since 1978. But last year's accident at reactors in Fukushima, Japan, still clouds the future of nuclear power, as does the cost of new power plants."
Source: NPR, 02/10/2012
"Welders Question PG&E's Gas Pipeline Work"
"Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s old gas lines are riddled with potentially lethal weld flaws, and new welding that the company's crews did during pipeline testing last year is suspect, two veteran welders told state regulators this week."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 02/09/2012
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