Dems Prep to Battle Pruitt Nomination
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Budget & Policy
House Republicans Launch Early Strike on Executive Regulations
After just one week in session, the Republicans of the 115th Congress have made clear their intentions to come down hard on executive branch regulation. Three bills introduced this week, the Regulatory Accountability Act, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, and the Midnight Rules Relief Act, aim to limit the power […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Boundary Dam Barely Misses 2016 C02 Capture Goal
SaskPower captured 792,533 metric tons of CO2 in 2016 at its Boundary Dam power plant Unit 3 carbon capture and storage project, just 7,467 metric tons shy of its goal for the year. That total could be made up in three days of typical operation at the plant, according to Jonathan Tremblay, spokesman for the […]
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Budget & Policy
NSPS Case Briefing Extension No-Go, Court Says
Donald Trump’s impending presidency will not delay the court-ordered schedule for a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emissions standards for new-build coal-fired power plants, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered Wednesday. The current schedule gives petitioners until Jan. 19 to respond to the EPA and its intervenors’ briefs […]
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International
Indian CCUS Project Proving Economically, Environmentally Beneficial
A commercial carbon capture and storage project in India is proving environmentally beneficial, even if that isn’t what the plant’s owner had in mind. The plant was launched in October 2016 and has been actively capturing CO2 from the flue gas of a 10-megawatt coal boiler owned by Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers near Chennai, […]