The impact of hydraulic fracturing on water quality in the US is getting a lot of attention, most recently from the EPA nationally and specifically in Wyoming. Last year the Wilderness Society surveyed the fracturing […]
Background Beginning in 2007 the European Union has tried to make CCS an integral part of EU energy policy. The European Commission’s energy strategy published in 2007 recommended developing low-CO2 power generation from fossil fuels […]
I’ve blogged previously about EPA consent decrees designed to reduce the discharge of untreated sewage into surface waters with Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Chicago. These have imposed legally binding investments of between half a […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), the first national standards for mercury, arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide emissions from power plants under the Clean […]
I’ve blogged before about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that comes into effect today. A recent article provides historical background to the MATS standards, which it points out have been […]
Aging infrastructure and outdated sewer systems have brought about the chronic discharge of raw sewage into U.S. surface waters. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated in August 2004 that the volume of combined sewer overflows […]
David Anderson, the Minister of the Environment in the Chretien government, was responsible for Canada’s signing the Kyoto protocol in 1998. Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment in the Harper government, has announced Canada’s withdrawal. […]
There have been a number of reported instances of drinking water contamination in which a link to hydraulic fracturing has been reported. These have been taken seriously enought that the EPA has started a multi-year […]