Environmental, Industry Groups Oppose E15 Waiver In Senate Energy Bill

Administration Eyes EPA Rules To Spur Shift From Coal To Renewables

Senior EPA and White House officials say the Obama administration is taking steps to close the cost divide between cheaper fossil fuel combustion and more-expensive renewable energy sources, readying a slew of EPA rules for power plants that will raise costs to the industry and providing new federal investments in renewable energy.

Key Groups Quietly Push Tiered CCS Liability Plan For Future Climate Bill

A group of power companies, environmentalists and insurers is urging Congress to codify their tiered plan for addressing potential environmental and other liabilities for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations, a key issue that industry is seeking to resolve to provide legal certainty before they deploy the climate control technology.

NERC Urges Grid Reliability Considerations In Setting GHG Targets

The group tasked by the federal government with ensuring electric grid reliability is warning that development of advanced clean-energy technologies, such as energy-storing batteries and transmission line upgrades, must keep pace with the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets being considered by regulators and Congress.

Reid Energy Bill Promotes Plug-In Electric Vehicles To Reduce GHGs

The scaled-back Senate energy bill unveiled this week includes several provisions that are being sold as addressing climate change, including efficiency incentives and a program to encourage the deployment of plug-in electric vehicle.

Senate Panel’s Electric Vehicle Bill Denies Hydrogen Fuel Cells Equal Status

The Senate energy committee’s electric vehicle (EV) deployment bill passed last week and now incorporated into Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) pared-down energy bill fails to provide the hydrogen vehicle industry the revisions it sought to make the legislation more “technology neutral” and thereby give equal federal support for fuel cell vehicles, according to sources with the trade group the National Hydrogen Association (NHA).

Ruling Could Hinder Activists’ Push For Climate, Emissions Nuisance Suits

A federal appeals court has rejected a lower court’s finding that neighboring states are creating a public nuisance with air pollution in North Carolina, dealing what sources say is a major blow to environmentalists’ and others push to file tort nuisance cases to force cuts in emissions of conventional pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs).