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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Obama Climate Czar, Carbon Capture, CDM

November 11, 2013November 11, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

White House deputy director for climate Dan Utech has become President Obama’s top energy and climate change advisor, The Hill reports. Utech replaces Heather Zichal, whose last day was Friday. The Department of Energy will invest nearly $84 million in 18 projects to research second-generation technologies for carbon capture from coal-fired power ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Carbon Standards, Pipeline Closure, Dyno Nobel Penalty

October 21, 2013July 3, 2017 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA has rescheduled two delayed listening sessions on its forthcoming carbon standards for existing power plants. The Boston session has been rescheduled for November 4, and the Philadelphia session has been pushed back to November 8. Both were postponed because of the government shutdown. The other nine dates are ... Read more »

Building Retrofits Generate $1m Annual Savings

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Multifamily housing real estate firm Peabody Properties has reduced energy use by 5 million kilowatt hours, saving the real estate firm $1 million in electricity costs annually through a building retrofit program led by web-based utility analytics company WegoWise. The company now plans to expand its program with WegoWise to ... Read more »

Rooftop Solar Presents Electrocution Danger For Firefighters

September 4, 2013 by Environmental Leader

A 7,000 panel solar array on top of a Dietz & Watson refrigerated distribution center in South New Jersey may have led to the destruction of the facility after a fire last Sunday. NBC Philadelphia reports that firefighters were held back from actively fighting the fire due to fears of ... Read more »

Sandy Prompts NJ Microgrid Project

August 29, 2013 by Leon Walker

The Energy Department is to partner with the State of New Jersey, NJ Transit and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to assess NJ Transit’s energy needs and help develop a conceptual design of an advanced microgrid system. The project, which is part of the Obama Administration’s ongoing efforts to ... Read more »

Sandy Losses Could Exceed $20 Billion

October 30, 2012October 30, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Hurricane Sandy delivered gale-force winds, rain and snow to the east coast, damaging businesses and homes, grounding thousands of US flights, flooding New York City’s subways and tunnels and cutting power to more than six million customers after making landfall on New Jersey’s shore and cutting a path through Pennsylvania. ... Read more »

NJ Program Gives Business a Break on Energy-Efficiency Projects

October 22, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A new program in New Jersey will allow large commercial and industrial facilities to offset surcharges on their gas and electric bills to pay for energy-efficiency projects, NJ Spotlight reports. The program gives some commercial users a credit against their Societal Benefits Charge (SBC) to pay up to one-half of ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Clean Air Initiative, EU ETS, NJ Solar, Feed-In Tariffs

July 25, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Seven more countries – the UK, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Jordan – have joined the US air pollution plan, the Climate and Clean Air Initiative, bringing the total to 20 members since the plan’s launch in February. The initiative focuses on reducing soot, heat-trapping methane, ground level ozone and ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Emissions Rules, Bonneville Power, FDA Plans BPA Decision

December 9, 2011July 3, 2017 by Leon Walker

California’s Air Resources Board proposed new rules to reduce emissions from vehicles, including putting 1.4 million electric, plug-in and hydrogen cars on the state’s roads by 2025. The program, scheduled for review by the ARB at a Jan. 26 meeting would save an estimated $22 billion in fuel costs, and ... Read more »

NJ in Top Global Solar Spot – But Not for Long

September 7, 2011September 7, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

New Jersey is the top global location for investors in solar power but will soon begin to suffer the effects of dramatic oversupply, according to a report by Lux Research. The Solar Demand Forecaster found that in Q2 2011, New Jersey offered the highest internal rate of return (IRR) out ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Raw Material Reporting, XL Go-Ahead, ConocoPhillips Sued

August 26, 2011 by Environmental Leader

The EPA on Thursday said it would delay reporting rules that will require manufacturers and power plants to submit information on the raw materials they use that lead to greenhouse-gas emissions, Bloomberg reported. The rule was to take effect this year, but has been pushed back until March 31, 2013. ... Read more »

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Mercury, Renewable Fuels, MACT Boiler Rules

June 22, 2011June 4, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

The EPA is making yet another extension to a public comment period, this time on proposed mercury and air toxics standards for coal plants. But the agency said the 30 day extension to the timeline for public input will not delay the issuing of final standards, scheduled for November. Last month ... Read more »

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