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Burb's Eye View: Keeping the city ahead of the energy curve
The U.S. Department of Energy could learn a thing or two from the researchers and power-company employees of Burbank. While the nation’s energy policy slowly, laboriously trudges toward sustainability and cleaner energy practices, Burbank Water and...Tags: Human Interest, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Alternative Energy, Electricity Production and Distribution, U.S. Department of Energy
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Historic Bethlehem office to become residences
Bethlehem's Dodson building, once an office of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., will become a 21-unit apartment project topped with a penthouse suite under a $4 million redevelopment plan unveiled Wednesday. The five-story building at 528 N. New St....
Tags: Freemansburg, Bethlehem Steel, Human Interest, Lobbying, Politics
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PBS Coals begins new mine project
RoxCoal, a subsidiary of PBS Coals, Friedens, has started the long process of site preparation to open a new underground mine. The A Seam Mine is located near the intersection of the Garrett Shortcut and Mud Pike in Brothersvalley and Black townships....
Tags: Friedens
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Portland power plant owners settle pollution lawsuit
The owner of a power plant in Upper Mount Bethel Township has agreed to stop burning coal as part of a settlement in a lawsuit by two downwind states over air pollution. NRG Energy, which acquired the Portland Generating Station last year in a merger...
Tags: Justice System, Energy Resources, Environmental Pollution, Trials, Reliant Energy Inc
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Global Change, Environmental Pollution, Barack Obama, Conservation, White House
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Plans shelved for coal export terminal in Oregon
SEATTLE — The battle over plans for a series of massive coal export terminals across the Pacific Northwest took a new turn Wednesday when the energy company Kinder Morgan announced it was dropping its plan to build a $200-million facility on the...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution, Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Lobbying, Asthma
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Wyoming on track to mine 10 billionth ton of coal
CASPER, Wyo. - Wyoming is on track to mine its 10 billionth ton of coal this month. That's according to a calculation by the Wyoming State Geological Survey released this week. It's based on production records going back to 1865, when Wyoming was still...
Tags: Government, Politics, Executive Branch
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New fiber line to help local businesses
Businesses in Somerset County that send and receive large data files now have another Internet option thanks to a partnership between PBS Coals and Comcast. Comcast Business, a division of Comcast Cable, reports PBS Coals, Friedens, is using Comcast...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Metal and Mineral, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Business, Technology
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Letters: When coal and ranching collide
Re "Ranchers drawing a line in the coal," April 27 With ranchers in southern Montana possibly having their land divided by rail lines to deliver coal to Asia — disrupting their cattle operations and polluting their water — it does seem...Tags: Agriculture, Petroleum Industry
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Lamb of God takes away the cares of the world
The first domesticated lamb turned over coals in Mesopotamia, literally the land "between rivers," some 10,000 years or so ago. But the lamb I'll be roasting in my backyard on this Orthodox Easter Sunday — also on a spit, over coals — is one...Tags: Christianity, Judaism, Easter, Hypothermia, Religion and Belief
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Indiana coal-gas bill stalls C02 pipeline project
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Legislation state lawmakers passed last week that the developers of a proposed Indiana coal-gasification plant say effectively kills their project also has dealt a blow to a Texas company's plans for a pipeline that would carry...Tags: Justice System, Energy Resources, Denbury Resources Incorporated, Petroleum Industry, Conservation
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Federal court backs EPA regulation of mountaintop removal
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court unanimously backed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate a controversial form of coal mining called mountaintop removal, overturning a lower court decision that barred the agency from...
Tags: Justice System, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution, Science and Technology
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