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\'60 Minutes\' on the problems with coal waste
Lesley Stahl yesterday on 60 Minutes focused on the environmental and human health threats posed by the 130-million tons of ash and other wastes produced annually in the U.S. in the process of burning coal to make electricity.Environmentalists and ot...
A big environmental issue awaits PA lawmakers
For three months, state lawmakers in Pennsylvania have been twiddling their thumbs as Governor Rendell and Legislative leaders played hard ball over the state's 2010 budget.The weekend's news that a budget resolution may be at hand means that lawmake...
Feds' $2.4B to 'stimulate' carbon capture projects
On Thursday, we reported in For carbon sequestration, it's test time on a major project designed to test the commercial viability of carbon sequestration technology (more popularly known as 'carbon capture and storage').The technology, which removes ...
For carbon sequestration, it's test time
It works in laboratory bench-scale tests, but the viability of capturing carbon emissions on a large, commercial scale and storing them underground is still unproven.American Electric Power hopes to prove that it an be done with a test that could las...
'Carbon Sequestration' coming to NJ & PA?
Carbon sequestration--an ungainly phrase that some environmentalists hope we never need to master--has made its debut, at least conceptually, in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Carbon sequestration itself has been used successfully in limited applic...
PSEG offers enviros a paid forum...they accept
PSEG, New Jersey's largest utility, has been buying op-ed space in the state's largest newspaper to burnish its brand and build public support for a number of its projects, including the 500-kv Susquehanna-Roseland electric transmission line.That con...
Week's top environmental news in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Jan. 19-23
Below are just a few of the environmental news stories for New Jersey and Pennsylvania which appeared in EnviroPolitics during the week of January 19-23.PSE&G looking to spend $888M Public Service Electric and Gas Co. announced Thursday that it i...
Princeton Library's rich offering of environmental films and discussion--is all for free!
With the holidays over, are you ready to slump into mental hibernation? The Princeton Film Festival appears to have been designed specifically to prevent any such intellectual slacking.Running from January 2 through 11, the event offers a rich jumble...
Alternative energy flickers in NJ & PA - Part I
Alternative energy has never had an easy path.Coaxing energy from the sun and wind—not to mention from rotting garbage, corn, switchgrass and algae—has long been the dream of lab technicians, garage-tinkers and environmental dream weavers.But as ...
Alternative energy flickers in NJ & PA - Part II
(Alternative energy - continued from Part 1)As we said at the start, alternative energy has never had an easy path.As summer wound down, gasoline prices began dropping, eroding public awareness of the need to conserve energy. Then, in the fall, came ...
Week's top Pennsylvania environmental news- November 24-28, 2008
Below are just a few of the environmental news stories for Pennsylvania appearing in EnviroPolitics during the week of November 24-28, 2008Pennsylvania Environmental NewsRendell pushing McGinty for EPA While Gov. Ed Rendell has largely taken himself ...
Jersey enviros look to topple power line proposal
Like fellow-activists in New York state (Catskill Mountainkeeper rallying opposition to NYRI power line), New Jersey environmental organizations have come out swinging against a proposed high-power line through a section of the state's northern tier....
NJ enviro group ready to rip LNG plans
Clean Ocean Action (COA), a New Jersey shore environmental group that had big success years ago in curbing waste dumping off the coast, is focusing its attention on plans by three separate developers who want to install liquefied natural gas faciliti...
Wind, solar energizing Pennsylvania's economy
Pennsylvania is still sitting on sizable deposits of coal--perhaps more than 300 years worth, according to some estimates. And coal is still the primary fuel source for most of the state's power-generation.But two new alternative energy players --wi...
Big environmental week in Pennsylvania
It's been was a big week for environmental headlines in the Keystone State with the resignation of Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty, the enactment of a $650 million energy bill and the additional signings of climat...
Jersey firm to close 105-year old paper mill in MA
Rising energy cost are being blamed for the planned closing of Haverhill Paperboard Corp., which has employed generations of families since it opened in the Merrimack Valley town of Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1902.A total of 142 full-time and 32 par...
PA nuclear plant builder's future is glowing
Less than two weeks ago, we speculated in Nuclear power revival - real or just talk? about the prospects for the nation's nuclear power industry in light of rising oil and coal prices and climate-change concerns.We noted that the Wall Street Journal...
PA's big stake in carbon sequestration tests
The nation's energy crisis would be yesterday's news if so-called, clean-coal technology can be proven to work effectively and economically.That's a big 'if' --perhaps a long shot--but it would provide an enormous economic boost to coal-producing st...
