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The Arizona municipalities of Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe have joined forces with the Salt River Project to help pay for bioenergy that supports strategic forest thinning across the Salt River and Verde River watersheds.
The Nebraska Public Power District on July 12 reported that it sent a 24-member crew to provide mutual aid to Omaha Public Power District to assist with power restoration efforts in the wake of severe weather that hit OPPD”s service territory.
The Environmental Protection Agency should withdraw and re-propose provisions related to coal combustion residual management units included in a proposed rule once it performs the requisite risk assessment and determines whether and how to regulate coal combustion residual disposal practices not currently regulated under federal regulations, the American Public Power Association said in July 17 comments submitted to EPA.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to revise steam electric effluent limitation guidelines “represents an unwarranted change of course given wastewater treatment requirements were just imposed” in a prior ELG rule, the American Public Power Association said in May 30 comments submitted to the EPA.
Snohomish County PUD recently sent crew members, equipment and vehicles to Guam to help it recover from a typhoon that knocked out power to most of its 150,000 residents.
New England public power utilities have sent crews to help rural cooperative utilities in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine restore power in the wake of a winter storm that recently hit the region.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently launched a project to restore prairie land and pollinator habitat on a portion of land at the site of a former nuclear power plant.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Dec. 30 released a final rule that repeals the Trump Administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule and adopts a new WOTUS definition. The agencies said that the new definition is founded on the pre-2015 WOTUS definition but is updated to reflect their broad interpretation of Supreme Court decisions.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets have been certified to be in line with a trajectory that is well below a 2° centigrade increase above pre-industrial levels.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 17 issued a final rule that reaffirmed the scientific, economic, and legal underpinnings of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants, which required significant reductions of mercury, acid gases, and other harmful pollutants.