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Today , AltaGas Ltd. and WGL Holdings, Inc. announced that they have reached a settlement in principle with key stakeholders in Washington D.C., including the Government of the District of Columbia, the Office of the People's Counsel, the Laborers' International Union of North America, its affiliated District Council, and Local Unions serving or located in Washington D.C. , the United States Department of Defense, the National Consumer Law Center/National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corporation , and the Apartment and Office Building Association. All key parties have now reached an understanding on settlement terms, clearing a path for review and approval by the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia .
The Markland Locks and Dam stretch across the Ohio River, connecting Switzerland County, Indiana and Gallatin County, Kentucky. The structure, built, maintained and controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is adjacent to Duke Energy's Markland Hydroelectric Plant, which was constructed during the 1960s.
Gulf Island Fabrication and Valmont Industries are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations. This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Gulf Island Fabrication and Valmont Industries, as reported by MarketBeat.
The Senate narrowly confirmed Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state on Thursday, clearing the path for him to take over as the top U.S. diplomat just as President Donald Trump faces high-risk moments on Iran and North Korea. Pompeo, the outgoing CIA director, secured support from 57 senators, with 42 voting no - one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.
In this May 22, 2012, file photo, Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan. A sure sign of policy success for the sprawling conservative network funded by the billionaire Koch brothers is Democratic pushback.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , in collaboration with public and private partners, has released the most comprehensive publicly available database yet of U.S. wind turbine locations and characteristics. The United States Wind Turbine Database will allow unparalleled ability for government agencies and others to make planning decisions.
Puerto Rico has made history by becoming -- briefly -- the largest US territory or state to be powered almost entirely by renewable energy. The rising grassroots movement to totally rebuild Puerto Rico's electric supply system with renewable energy and locally owned micro-grids poses a serious threat to the centralized, fossil-based corporate elite.
Crews responding to a dielectric fluid spill in the Straits of Mackinac expect this week to get their first look at damage to underwater high-voltage power lines and oil and gas pipelines. Enbridge Energy reports their Line 5 oil and gas pipelines remain out of service, though the company hopes to resume pumping again once conditions allow.
The Latest on the Kentucky legislature's final day of session : 8:20 p.m. Kentucky lawmakers have wrapped up this year's legislative session. The final day of work Saturday included two bills with last-minute changes to spending and tax policies.
Based on his own back-of-the-envelope calculations, Minnesota farmer Kirby Hettver could lose tens of thousands of dollars of earnings because of President Donald Trump. But damaging as the brewing trade war with China may turn out to be for Hettver and other American soybean farmers, he says the greater financial impact could come if Trump moves ahead with changes to the U.S. ethanol mandate, known as the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS.
We're a month away from West Virginia's primary election, although, with the exception of a few campaign signs which recently started to appear, one might wonder if area residents are even aware.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke acknowledges there is "a lot of opposition" to President Donald Trump's plan to open most of the nation's coastline to oil and gas drilling. Speaking at a forum on offshore wind energy Friday in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Zinke touted Trump's "all of the above" energy menu that calls for oil and gas, as well as renewable energy projects.
Trump aide endorses wind turbines, not oil rigs, as future of the East Coast U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke endorses offshore wind generation, flexibility on coastal oil drilling. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2GEzsCK Three wind turbines from the Deepwater Wind project off Block Island, R.I. Deepwater Wind's $300 million five-turbine wind farm started operating Dec. 12, 2016, making it the first operating offshore wind farm in the United States.
Nevada, which incessantly markets itself as the Saudi Arabia of solar power and benefits from federal research funding, received a boost in the new federal budget, over the objections of the Trump administration. Indeed, Donald Trump's recommendations were overridden by the Republican Congress in so many areas that it is dubious to call it the Trump budget any more.
The dam at Gross Reservoir would be raised by 131 feet in the largest construction project in Boulder County history, should the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission clear the way for the $380 million expansion to go forward.
Anyone who thought "manmade climate cataclysm" rhetoric couldn't possibly exceed Obama era levels should read the complaint filed in the "public nuisance" lawsuit that's being argued before Federal District Court Judge William Alsup in a California courtroom: Oakland v BP and other oil companies. The allegations read at times like they were written by a Monty Python comedy team and a couple of first year law students.
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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Exxon Mobil Corp.'s lawsuit seeking to stop New York and Massachusetts from probing whether the oil and gas company covered up its knowledge about climate change and lied to investors and the public about it. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan rejected as "implausible" Exxon's argument that the states' Democratic attorneys general, Eric Schneiderman and Maura Healey, were pursuing politically motivated, bad-faith fraud investigations in order to violate its constitutional rights.
Prices for solar, wind, and battery storage are dropping so rapidly that renewables are increasingly squeezing out all forms of fossil fuel power, including natural gas. The cost of new solar plants dropped 20 percent over the past 12 months, while onshore wind prices dropped 12 percent, according to the latest Bloomberg New Energy Finance report .
SoftBank Group Corp. for a $200 billion solar power project in the kingdom, calling it the single largest of its kind in the world. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son said he envisions the project, which runs the gamut from power generation to panel and equipment manufacturing, as a way to help wean Saudi Arabia off its dependence on oil for electricity, create as many as 100,000 jobs and shave $40 billion off power costs.