Petra Nova Becomes Nation’s First Commercial-Scale CCS Project
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Kemper Cost Estimate Breaks $7 Billion; Gasifier Issue Delays Startup
Mississippi Power’s Kemper County Clean Energy Facility carbon capture and storage project is now expected to cost $7.01 billion, the utility said in its latest filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The plant, a new-build coal-fired power plant with a pre-combustion carbon capture system, was initially billed at $2.4 billion prior to construction […]
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Budget & Policy
Tillerson Stays Course on Climate During Nomination Hearing
Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson on Wednesday doubled down on his belief that climate change is real and that the United States should remain a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change regardless of President-elect Donald Trump’s publicly stated stance that climate change is a hoax. “I came to the conclusion […]
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Budget & Policy
Moniz: We Did Perry a Favor by Not Providing DOE Employee Names to Trump
Refusing to provide President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team with a requested list of Department of Energy employees who worked on climate change issues wasn’t just the right thing to do for employees, but also for Rick Perry, Trump’s pick to lead the agency, outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Wednesday. Addressing the press for the […]
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Budget & Policy
Obama Focuses on Climate in Waning Days of Administration
President Barack Obama this week reminded the nation of the reality of climate change and urged continued work in both the public and private domains to address the issue under the incoming administration of President-elect (and sometimes climate change denier) Donald Trump. “Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information […]
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Budget & Policy
In Other News
Jonathan Pershing, U.S. special envoy for climate change, is no longer looking down the barrel of unemployment. On Tuesday, he will start his new job as the director of the Environment Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. S. coal production fell in 2016, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced this week. Production in […]