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16 Jan 2023, 9:05 pm by Andrew Kliewer
The International Dark Sky Association estimates that the United States wastes one third of energy used for lighting each year — the equivalent of 30 million barrels of oil and 8.2 million tons of coal. [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 11:56 am by John Gotaskie
Fast Food restaurant franchisors and franchisees can rejoice for the holidays; at least for now, there is not a lump of coal in their stockings. [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 4:00 am by Guest Author
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that over 70 percent of coal-fired power plants have had noncompliance problems with the Clean Air Act. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 1:00 pm by Vijeta Uniyal
Climate militants occupying German coal town include supporters of Antifa and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 10:54 am by Stuart Kaplow
Building related GHG emissions vary greatly from a high of 15.91 tCO2e per capita in North Dakota (.. where it is cold and there is a lot of heating) to a low of 4.07 in Hawaii (.. okay), but even in a tepid state like Maryland emissions are 5.54 tCO2e per capita (.. where the electricity grid fuel mix relies heavily on coal), so green building strategies, including stronger efficiency standards for light bulbs, are key to reducing GHGs, not to mention achieving Maryland’s aggressive… [read post]
This means that the previously planned operating time of the company’s coal-fired power plants has been halved. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 7:34 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” Additional documents then emerged showing that the US oil and gas industry’s largest trade association had likewise known since at least the 1950s, as had the coal industry since at least the 1960s, and electric utilities, Total oil company, and GM and Ford motor companies since at least the 1970s. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 11:58 am by Christopher J. Walker
EPA, decided this last term, the Supreme Court invoked the major questions doctrine to reject EPA’s claim that the Clean Air Act granted it the authority effectively to require power plants to shift from generating electricity through coal to doing so through natural gas, wind, or solar sources. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 10:00 am by Vijeta Uniyal
" The post German Climate Militants Disrupt Coal Mining, Throw Stones and Molotov Cocktails at Police first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 4:00 am by Guest Author
She makes a convincing case, for example, that the command-and-control aspects of the Acid Rain program (e.g. continuous emissions monitoring and reporting, and year-end “true up” requirements) were more responsible for that program’s success in reducing sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants than the much-touted “cap-and-trade” aspects of that rule. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Advocacy Groups Denounce GOP Proposals to ‘Gut’ Ethics Office MSN – Kate Ackley (Roll Call) | Published: 1/3/2023 Ethics advocacy groups are sounding alarms that a proposal from House Republicans to change the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) could eviscerate the watchdog, leaving it unable to function. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 3:58 am by Arlo Kipfer
Think of that first employee complaint as your canary in your coal mine and use it to your advantage to nip impending/future employee problems in the bud with an employer audit. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 11:23 am by Mark J. Neuberger
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”) has issued a series of recent decisions that will give employers concern in 2023 and beyond. [read post]
1 Jan 2023, 12:25 pm by Stuart Kaplow
However, opportunities now abound as the current dinosaur fossil fuel economies that have existed substantially in their present form since the dawn of the industrial revolution with the coal powered steam engine, are today being transformed to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050, and trillions of dollars will have to be spent annually on physical assets to accomplish that transition. [read post]
31 Dec 2022, 10:34 am by Christopher J. Walker
EPA, decided this last term, the Supreme Court invoked the major questions doctrine to reject EPA’s claim that the Clean Air Act granted it the authority effectively to require power plants to shift from generating electricity through coal to doing so through natural gas, wind, or solar sources. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 12:04 pm by Richard Frank
Department of the Interior violated NEPA by failing to provide a convincing statement as to how expected greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed coal mine expansion on federal lands–involving 190 million tons of GHGs, 0.44% of total GHGs emitted globally–was insignificant under NEPA. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 10:41 am by Jonathan Zasloff
Consider Alabama Power, which runs and owns a coal-fired power plant that is the largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. [read post]