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NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant

NRG Energy received a conditional contract from the New York Power Authority to build a 680 net megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant at its Huntley facility in Tonawanda, New York. The project, which represents a total project cost of approximately $1.5 billion, is scheduled to go into commercial operation ... Read more »

EU Rethinks Airline Emissions Trading, Throws U.S. a Bone

The European Commission is scaling back its aviation emissions plan and considering a two-year grace period, until 2013, for foreign airlines before they’re required to participate in its carbon reduction scheme, EUobserver reports (via Business Week). Intra-European flights will be covered by the scheme from the beginning of 2011. The move could ... Read more »

Mass. to Retrofit 8400 Diesel Buses by 2010

Massachusetts will spend (PDF) $22.5 million to retrofit 8400 public school and regional transit buses by 2010. The deal is designed to offset pollution from the Big Dig, The Boston Globe reports. Some 7,800 diesel-powered school buses and 600 regional transit buses will be retrofitted with filters that are expected ... Read more »

Duke’s Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions

Taxing carbon emissions will produce immediate, economywide gains in energy efficiency and new, carbon-free energy production, Duke Energy Chairman Paul Anderson said last week at a Sierra Club workshop in San Francisco on what to do about global warming. “All the other approaches will take decades,” Anderson said, Inside Bay Area reports. “A ... Read more »

Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal

California’s Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors has rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from a proposed coal-fired power plant in Utah after dozens of ratepayers and renewable energy advocates testified that Truckee should not be supporting an energy-generating system that contributes to global warming, ... Read more »

Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills

Colorado, with Democrats in control of the governor’s office as well as the state Senate and House, has a good chance of signing a dozen or so renewable energy bills – three times the number introduced last year – into law, Rocky Mountain News reports. According to the article, the following ... Read more »

Automakers Seek Dismissal for Global Warming Suit

Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are asking a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Oakland to dismiss a lawsuit by California that accuses them of harming human health and the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming, Associated Press reports. The current suit against the big six ... Read more »

Branson: Airlines Can Cut CO2 Emissions 25% in 2 Years

Even though high fuel prices have cost the Virgin Group and Virgin Atlantic about a billion dollars a year in increased costs because of its trains and planes, Richard Branson prays that fuel prices remain high in order to stir people to take action to address global warming, Grist reports (via MSNBC). ... Read more »

Honeywell Energy Plan Saves School District $129,000

A five-year energy savings plan at York School Department buildings in Maine cut $128,903 in energy costs its first year, the Portsmouth Herald reports. In 2004, the School Department, working with Honeywell, designed a $776,000 plan that would pay for itself in five years. Now, with the higher cost of ... Read more »

EPA Proposes Onboard Diagnostic Systems for New Large Trucks and Buses

The EPA is proposing to require the emissions control systems of large diesel and gasoline highway trucks and buses to be monitored similarly to passenger cars. EPA says that the proposed regulation for onboard diagnostic systems would help ensure that emissions control systems work properly for the useful life of ... Read more »

Energy Security Leadership Council Meets with Lawmakers, WH Officials

Executives of shippers, chemical companies and other big users of petroleum products want the new Congress to tighten fuel-efficiency standards and open new offshore areas for oil and gas drilling, The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription needed). The group, the Energy Security Leadership Council, is co-chaired by Frederick Smith, chairman and ... Read more »


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