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March 08, 2010
Electricity generation: Gas producers take on coalThere’s a battle going on: shale gas producers, searching for a home for their fuel, say natural gas can take on a larger burden of the electricity-generation market, but the coal lobby isn’t going without a fight.
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March 08, 2010
Nebraska enjoys advantages of cheap coal powerWe're all in favor of new alternative energy when it comes to generating electricity, but a new government report shows that Nebraska can thank one of the oldest sources for the cheap price we pay for power in this state.
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March 07, 2010
FirstEnergy tapping coal resources in MontanaSignal Peak is where First-Energy is operating its first company-owned coal mine in recent history, a $450 million project that was developed under a joint venture that controls about 1 billion tons of high-energy, clean-burning coal at the reopened Signal Peak mine, enough to last for decades.
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March 07, 2010
Dreaming the Possible DreamOne has produced a fuel cell that can turn natural gas or natural grass into electricity; the other has a technology that might make coal the cleanest, cheapest energy source by turning its carbon-dioxide emissions into bricks to build your next house.
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March 05, 2010
Lawmakers seek EPA delayCoalfield legislators closed ranks Thursday and simultaneously introduced legislation in both houses of congress aimed at delaying the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing additional regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources including coal-fired power plants.
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March 05, 2010
Hope fades as partisans bickerClean coal technology is also central to the President's green energy agenda. The President, like Australia, is a strong supporter of clean coal technology. The Obama administration has just created the Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a co-ordinated national strategy to accelerate the advancement and deployment of clean coal technologies. Australia and the US are obvious partners in this; that's why Dave Freudenthal, Governor of Wyoming, the biggest coal-producing state in the US, is visiting Queensland later this month
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March 05, 2010
AEP chief says carbon capture pilot project working “Nicely.”A carbon capture and sequestration project started in West Virginia last year is working and ready to be ramped up to a level that would pump significant levels of carbon into formations several miles below the Earth's surface, said the chief executive of American Electric Power Co. Inc.
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March 04, 2010
Lawmakers seek 2-year delay in EPA emission rulesA two-year suspension of any planned greenhouse emission rules by the Environmental Protection Agency is the goal of identical measures offered Thursday in both chambers on Capitol Hill. One of them came in the Senate by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., while the second was produced in the House by Reps. Nick Rahall and Alan Mollohan, both D-W.Va., and Rick Boucher, D-Va.
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March 04, 2010
Buying Some TimeU.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller says a new piece of legislation he has introduced to the Senate will help save the coal industry and coal jobs. The bill calls for a two year suspension of any regulation by the federal Environmental Protection Agency on greenhouse gas emissions. Senator Rockefeller says the bill makes sure Congress makes the final decision on the nation's energy portfolio.
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March 04, 2010
Jay seeks to delay EPA greenhouse gas rulesByrd stressed the importance of "ongoing negotiations" between federal officials and Congress.
"West Virginia needs to have a seat at the negotiating table. I am continuing to have significant discussions about how to ensure the future of coal as a long-term energy resource," he said. "I am reluctant to give up on talks that might produce benefits for West Virginia's coal interests by seeming to turn away form ongoing negotiations."
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