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The majority owner of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County announced Monday that it is committed to moving spent nuclear fuel to another site. The commitment by Southern California Edison settled a lawsuit filed by an anti-nuclear group nearly two years ago, which opposed the California Coastal Commission's approval of expanded nuclear waste storage at the seaside plant.
The Department of Energy's grid study contains several important red flags to consider when determining what role solar and wind power will play in the future, a digital tech analyst told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The DOE's study notes that green energy technology is not currently a problem for the electrical grid, but the agency's report warns that solar and wind power could become a problem in the future if demand explodes, according to Mark Mills, an executive at tech-consulting organization Digital Power Group.
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In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, a hornless cow stands in a dairy barn at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind. Fair Oaks, one of the nationA's largest dairy farms with 36,000 cows, is phasing out the use of milk cows with horns _ unruly cows can be hazardous because they can gore farm workers or other animals.
When Curt Castagna built four new airplane hangars at Van Nuys Airport, he started to think about all the wasted space - on the roof. So he decided to fill up that space by going into the solar energy business, a first for his group and a first for the general aviation airport.
An appeals court has voided an order that would have required Exxon Mobil to revise its pipeline-safety procedures after a 2013 oil spill in Arkansas. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued the order in 2015, and it could have applied to more than 1,000 miles of the Texas oil and gas company's pipelines.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Northern Pass hydroelectric transmission project , representing a significant step forward in the permitting process. The FEIS concluded that the proposed Northern Pass route is the "preferred alternative," that the project provides substantial benefits, and will result in only minimal impacts.
Neil Chatterjee of Kentucky has been appointed Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Chatterjee was an energy policy advisor to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The Trump administration's decision on Wednesday to slap sanctions on eight members of Venezuela's all-powerful constitutional assembly brings to 30 the number of government loyalists targeted for human rights abuses and violations of democratic norms since anti-government protests began in April. But even as the list of targeted individuals grows longer, promised economic sanctions have yet to materialize amid an outcry by the U.S. oil industry that a potential ban on petroleum imports from Venezuela - the third-largest supplier to the U.S. - would hurt U.S. jobs and drive up gas costs.
State officials, including Governor McMaster, were on hand for the inauguration of the $100 million solar project in Aiken County. "I think the success of this particular facility, a seven-acre facility that can produce up to a megawatt of power, and even today with the overcast that we have it is still producing power and energy, we've come a long way from the original solar panels," Representative Joe Wilson explained.
Before leaving town, the U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump and the oil industry two long-sought regulatory appointments that could expedite construction of natural gas pipelines nationwide.
The Senate confirmed two new commissioners on August 4, 2017, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm two Republican nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, one of whom accused natural gas pipeline opponents of waging a "jihad" against the agency.
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline survived nine years of protests, lawsuits and political wrangling that saw the Obama administration reject it and President Donald Trump revive it, but now the project faces the possibility of death by economics. Low oil prices and the high cost of extracting Canadian crude from oil sands are casting new doubts on Keystone XL as executives with the Canadian company that wants to build it face the final regulatory hurdle next week in Nebraska.
This statistic was a fluke, since ordinarily renewables supply less than a fifth of Italy's electricity. Still, that on especially bright and windy days, the renewables can perform at this level is a harbinger for the future.
Southern California Gas Co. responded Saturday to a state court's ruling that effectively blocked it from resuming natural gas operations at Aliso Canyon, arguing that its methane wells are safe and vital to the region, a conclusion supported by regulators, who said they can re-start.
Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Marvin T. Griff has joined the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice in Washington, D.C., as a partner. Griff joins from Husch Blackwell.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, President Trump's nominee for international religious freedom ambassador, describes religious freedom as "the choice of what you do with your own soul." If confirmed, the 60-year-old, two-term Republican governor, former U.S. senator and onetime presidential candidate would be the first politician confirmed as the ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."
Buena Vista wind farm turbines photographed in the Altamont area of Contra Costa County, Calif., on Friday, May 8, 2015. The question of how many birds are killed on the Altamont Pass by the wind turbines located there has once again reared its ugly head.