Coal
Coal Extraction Poses Climate Challenge for Obama Administration
Since taking office nearly three years ago, it has restricted coal-mining waste from being dumped into streams and imposed new pollution controls on coal-fired power plants. But on the fundamental question of whether the government should halt federal leasing, Obama’s answer has been: not yet.
26Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Coal Mine Decision Sounds Alarm Bells
With a decision looming, this week’s approval of a lease sale for a coal mine expansion in a roadless area near Paonia had the blessings of top officials in Washington, D.C. The bigger mine would require methane vents to be drilled in the roadless area.
17Nov2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Forest Service OKs Coal Lease Expansions on West Slope
The decision helps enable expansion of underground mining. But Jeremy Nichols of the WildEarth Guardians says the decision means nearly 50 well pads and miles of associated roads will be created in the Sunset Trail roadless area.
9Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Coal Increasingly Headed Overseas
28.8 million tons of coal valued at $1 billion is a lot of domestic energy. Except when it’s not. According to the second-quarter earnings report for Arch Coal, the St. Louis, Mo., company that owns Colorado’s West Elk Mine, 2011 is expected to be a banner year – based at least in part on increasing exports to overseas markets.
6Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Groups Seeking to Block BLM Authorization of West Slope Coal Mine Expansion Get Reprieve
“This is a dirty energy disgrace,” said Jeremy Nichols, Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians. His heated rhetoric and that of others paid off — at least temporarily — when the BLM said last week that it would reconsider approval of the mine expansion.
22Mar2011 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
State PUC Denies Coal Industry’s Request to Halt Xcel Plant Closures
The Colorado Mining Association, Peabody Energy Corp., and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity have argued that switching from coal to natural gas will cost jobs in the mining industry and lead to higher electricity prices.
27Jan2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Regulators Add Cherokee Plant to the
‘No Coal’ Xcel List
Cherokee’s three units would be replaced by a natural gas unit, and the Arapahoe power plant would be switched to gas. As we reported earlier this week, the PUC also supported adding new emissions control equipment to Xcel’s Hayden power plant in northwest Colorado and the Pawnee power plant out east.
18Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Coal Counties Struggle to Deal With Xcel Plan
In places like Moffat County, which is home to four mines, the concern is everywhere. “Those are significant dollars to our economy,” Moffat County Commissioner Audrey Danner told KUNC reporter, Kirk Siegler.
8Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Crackdown on Coal: Implications of the MACT Rule for the Coal Industry
The MACT rule — which stands for Maximum Achievable Control Technology — will establish hazardous air pollutant emission standards for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers that burn fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil to produce heat or electricity.
23Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Updates from Around the State & Region
Because you all ready know the winners … and losers
>> SmartGridCity Costs Can Be Recovered –but Capped
>> Colorado Vestas Plants to Fill Idaho Order
>> Navajo Land Coal Mine Permit Revoked
>> State Capitol Building Taps Geothermal
$91 Million in Stimulus Grants Go to Three Colorado Companies for Clean Coal Research
Boulder-based Eltron R&D is receiving the largest share of the DOE funds for work on advanced techniques to capture and store CO2 from fossil fuel combustion. The other two are ADA Environmental Solutions in Littleton and North American Power Group of Greenwood Village.
8Sep2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Power Plants, Residents Debate Coal Ash
Plan in Denver
More than 100 speakers commented Thursday at a hearing on proposed coal ash regulations, with utilities arguing that placing regulations under hazardous waste laws would threaten jobs, and ranchers citing health concerns in their call for tough federal regulation.
4Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
West Slope Miners Protest Coal Bill
“You might wonder why I got all the applause,” he said speaking to a crowd of hundreds. “It’s (because) I’m just one of the coal miners here. I’m one of the ones … afraid this bill is going to do away with my job.” Winey was one of several coal miners who spoke to members of the Colorado PUC yesterday in Grand Junction during a public input session on the fallout of the Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act.
1Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued-
People Power for DG
It will take a lot of “People Power” to overcome the stranglehold on renewable energy progress in Colorado and much of the U.S., argues Ceal Smith of the San Luis Valley Renewables Community Alliance. She offers three actions you can take now to support point of use “rooftop” distributed generation.
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