The editorial "A scare campaign" (Oct. 19) dismissed the concerns of many Missouri businesses and families who will be saddled with higher energy prices because of new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations. On average, a third of business costs are spent on energy, and Missouri's electricity prices could rise by as much as 14 percent under these new regulations.
The Dallas Morning News editorializes, “Last week’s announcement that Summit Power has won a $350 million federal grant to build a coal gasification plant in West Texas positions our state as a leader in developing the next generation of power facilities.” Although Summit Power has to raise additional funds, as the project is expected to cost $1.75 billion, “if the company can pull this off, the Penwell plant could be a game-changer in a state that produces more greenhouse gases than any other.” According to the Morning News, “federal officials have made clear that soon, Texas will not be p
Lisa Camooso Miller, Vice President of Media Relations for ACCCE, discusses the importance of advanced coal technologies and the impact of potential Washington policies on coal-fueled power plants with WTAD AM 930 in Quincy, Illinois.
Lisa Camooso Miller, Vice President of Media Relations for ACCCE talks about the Clean Coal Technology Mobile Classroom’s visit to the Show-Me State and how the coal-based electricity industry benefits Missouri’s economy with Matt West of KREI in Farmington, Mo.
Environmental interest groups recently rejoiced at the news that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's foundation was donating $50 million to the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign. However, this campaign -- if successful -- would do more than move America beyond coal. It would go a long way to moving America beyond jobs, economic growth, energy security and global competitiveness.
A national trade group for the coal industry dismissed the ads as negative and unhelpful when the nation needs to maintain affordable and reliable power to pull out of its economic tailspin. "At the end of the day, these commercials have very little to say," said Joe Lucas, spokesman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
A gas-fired generator in southern France will become the first retrofitted power plant in the world to capture, transport and sequester carbon emissions when it begins operation later this month.
E&E's ClimateWire reports that a Clean Air Task Force report—to be released today—argues that potential processes that can gasify coal underground could be a breakthrough for power generators searching for a way to reduce their carbon footprints cheaply. The analysis provides a policy road map for bringing coal technologies in four research areas, including complex retrofits of old power plants and permanent storage of greenhouse gases, from the experimental stage to mass production.
E&E News PM reports that during an update on the US and Canada’s clean energy plans, Secretary Chu and Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice said that they “hope to craft consistent regulatory frameworks for carbon sequestration projects as part of a ‘clean’ energy cooperation effort launched earlier this year.”
E&E News PM reports that Thermal Power Research Institute, a subsidiary of China’s largest power company Beijing-based China Huaneng Group, and Future Fuels LLC, a US coal gasification specialist, “announced a deal today to share technical information about capturing carbon dioxide emissions from ‘clean’ coal plants” that “will focus on coal-burning power plants slated for eastern Pennsylvania and northeastern China.”
