"Kansas Allows Utility To Build Coal-Fired Electric Plant"
"After a four-year effort, a western Kansas utility won state permission Thursday to construct an 895-megawatt, coal-fired power plant."
Source: Kansas City Star, 12/17/2010
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BLM Picks 22 Million Acres of Public Land for Solar Energy Projects
"The Department of Interior has identified some two dozen potential sites for large-scale solar power installations on public lands in six Western states as part of an effort to encourage development of renewable energy on public lands and waters."
Source: NYTimes, 12/17/2010
"Senate Votes To Extend Ethanol Subsidy For 2011"
"The Senate on Wednesday voted in favor of a one-year extension of the ethanol tax credit and the ethanol import tariff at existing rates, despite complaints the subsidies were wasteful."
Source: Reuters, 12/16/2010
"U.S. Called Vulnerable to Rare Earth Shortages"
"The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines."
Source: NYTimes, 12/16/2010
Safety Board Finds Oil Industry Failing to Learn From Past Disasters
"Independent federal experts investigating the blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig are finding major parallels between this year's disaster and a 2005 blast that killed 15 workers at a BP PLC refinery in Texas -- indicating the industry has failed to overhaul safety rules, they said [Wednesday]."
Source: Greenwire, 12/16/2010
Power Plant Cooling May Hurt NE Stocks More Than Overfishing
"In an unprecedented move, the environmental agencies of New Jersey and New York have begun forcing scores of their largest water users to either retrofit their plants with modern cooling systems which won't kill billions of fish annually or cease operating."
Source: New Jersey Newsroom, 12/15/2010
"Oil Sands Report Criticizes All Stakeholders"
"Cutting through rhetoric that so often dominates debate over Canada's oil sands, a new report by a prominent academic group is a comprehensive snapshot of the failings and successes of all the industry's stakeholders and raises hope for a new era of oversight."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/15/2010
"Obama Admin Wants Study but Backs Northeast Shale Drilling"
"The Obama administration supports a full study of the effects of gas drilling in the watershed that provides drinking water for Philadelphia and New York City, but it doesn't want to wait until it's finished for drilling to begin."
Source: Greenwire, 12/15/2010
"Permit Process for Coal-Fired Plant in Kansas Draws Criticism"
"For several weeks, nine Kansas state employees have been voluntarily working weekends and late into the night to finish a review of a permit for a power plant. ... And that worries the coal plant’s opponents, who said the extra hours were a clear signal that the state was pushing the permit process too fast."
Source: Kansas City Star, 12/14/2010
"Obama Decision To Close Yucca Nuclear Dump Back in Court"
"A federal appeals court has decided to move ahead with lawsuits challenging the Department of Energy's authority to scrap plans to make Yucca Mountain, Nev., a national repository for nuclear waste."
Source: Tri-City Herald, 12/14/2010
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