August 2015

16 states ask feds to put Clean Power Plan on hold while they sue

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Clean Power Plan attacked by 16 state attorneys general WASHINGTON – The campaign to stop President Barack Obama’s sweeping Clean Power Plan began taking shape Wednesday, as 16 states asked the government to put the rules on hold while a Senate panel moved to block them. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is leading the charge against […]

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SunRun IPO, SunEdison deal for Vivint scare investors, even as solar heats up

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SunRun IPO raised $250M, but shares fell 13 per cent Wednesday NEW YORK – A string of deals involving rooftop solar companies has shown both the appeal and potential of the business, and limits to investor enthusiasm. SunRun, the San Francisco-based solar financing pioneer, raised $250 million in an initial public offering Wednesday, but shares fell 13

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California oil spill may have been larger than initially estimated

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California oil spill may have been up to 143,000 gallons LOS ANGELES – More than two months after oil from a ruptured pipeline fouled California beaches, documents released Wednesday disclosed that the spill might have been far larger than earlier projected. Plains All American Pipeline had estimated that the May 19 break along a corroded section of pipe

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Marcellus natural gas access key to new Nova Scotia LNG exports

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Proposed Canadian East Coast LNG projects may exhaust regional gas supplies, Marcellus imports could be key to Heritage Gas project Three new East Coast LNG export proposals have Nova Scotia’s Heritage Gas worrying about natural gas supplies for residential and business customers, but the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline says it is tapping into the American Marcellus

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ExxonMobil’s Beaumont refinery ups light crude capacity by 20,000 b/d

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Beaumont refinery part of trend to processing light crudes from domestic unconventional production ExxonMobil is expanding processing of light crude oil at its Beaumont refinery, increasing production capacity by approximately 20,000 barrels per day, the company announced Tuesday. “This project will grow our capacity and flexibility to process light crude oils,” said Jerry Wascom, president of

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HitchBOT creators mull rebuild after it was destroyed in US

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HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia TORONTO – Collapsed among trash and dead leaves, its arms ripped off and its skull and brain nowhere in sight, the talking and tweeting hitchhiking robot from Canada met its untimely end in Philadelphia over the weekend. But there may be another chance at life for the child-sized travelling robot. HitchBOT’s co-creators Frauke

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Clean Power Plan rules spark 2016 campaign fight over climate change

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Hilary Clinton says if elected, she would defend Clean Power Plan if elected WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan is thrusting the divisive debate over climate change into the race for the White House, with candidates in both parties seeing an opportunity to capitalize. To Democrats, rallying around global climate change is a way to energize

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Clean Power Plan shifts states’ emission reduction targets

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Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions 32 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 HELENA, Mont. – Sixteen states will have tougher carbon dioxide reduction targets than they originally planned now that President Barack Obama has presented his final plan to cut emissions from U.S. power plants. Obama’s plan, which would reduce emissions 32 per cent below 2005

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