All Posts Tagged With: "coal-fired plants"
CO2 Emissions Decline in West
Descending from the Pollution Plateau: Why Carbon Dioxide Emissions are Declining in the Mountain West and How to Keep it that Way comes on the heels of a study by the U.S. Department of Energy showing CO2 emissions in the United States at their lowest level since 1992.
4Sep2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Report Calls for More Flexibility From EPA
The Electric Power Research Institute study says that providing electric utilities with flexibility in installing new pollution control technology to comply with current and pending EPA regulations could save approximately $100 billion in future expenditures.
4Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Coal To Natural Gas – It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry
The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.
16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA Continues to Push for Coal Plant Clean-Up in Southwestern Colorado
Many coal plants in the region did not invest in new pollution control technology in good economic times and now they cannot afford it. During her visit, EPA administrator Jackson praised Colorado’s plan to retire coal plants and replace them with natural gas-powered generators.
25Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Retiring Xcel CEO: ‘OK if no more coal’
Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado, went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. “I think the science is pretty solid. Maybe we haven’t communicated it well enough.”
22Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Renewables Share of Domestic Energy Production Passes Nuclear
“Congressional Republicans continue to press for more nuclear energy funding while seeking deep cuts in renewable energy investments,” said Ken Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign. “One has to wonder ‘what are these people thinking?’”
6Jul2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
House Panel Kills Attempt to Change Utilities’
Cost Estimates
House Bill 1240, sponsored by Rep. Spencer Swalm, R-Centennial, would have ended the three-year old practice of allowing utilities to plan out their power plant and power-purchasing decisions as if the passage of some type of cap-and-trade carbon tax were imminent.
22Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Report Ranks Colorado 21st for Power Plant
CO2 Emissions
The bigger news is that CO2 emissions in the state decreased 47 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the report issued Friday by the Environmental Integrity Project. Nationwide, emissions rose more than 5.56 percent in 2010 from the previous year.
19Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Political Pressure to Fix Future Energy Problems
The coldest temperatures in the contiguous states created a “state of emergency” due to a disruption of natural gas delivery. Power plants were shut down, workers sent home, schools closed, and shelters set up for those without heat. This was Thursday, February 3. Many people remained without heat a week later while temperatures reached as low as thirty-degrees-below zero. How could America, the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation in the world, be faced with life-threatening energy shortages? Bottom line: our policy toward power generation is a policy that must be changed.
10Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...