The Biden administration is cracking down on planet-warming pollution from the nation’s electricity sector, with mandates likely to encourage the closure of coal plants that advocates argue are vital to meet surging power demand.
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Power plants face updated air toxics requirements targeting mercury and heavy metals in newly finalized standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.
The EPA finalized a rule to mandate coal ash cleanup at inactive power plants, part of a group of related rules announced Thursday by the administration.
The Biden administration has selected an electric transmission line project to receive up to $331 million to bring wind energy from Idaho to Nevada, the latest move to back the connection of more renewable energy to the power grid.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
A global standard-setter decided Thursday to let companies decide on their own when they should report the cost of their commitments to achieve net zero carbon emissions, rather than introducing specific requirements.
Barclays Plc says more money needs to go toward climate transition projects that are too advanced to interest venture capitalists, and too nascent to attract infrastructure investors.
Atomic power’s potential as a clean-energy source forestalling climate change is increasingly at risk, with new data suggesting nuclear growth could be threatened by spreading geopolitical instability and war.
The Treasury Department and the IRS released final rules Thursday for taxpayers looking to buy or sell clean energy tax credits in President Joe Biden’s tax-and-climate law.
The Biden administration issued new minimum energy standards for homes built with federal dollars, a move that the government says will result in millions in annual cost savings for renters and homeowners.
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One promising study concluded that high-voltage direct-current connections between the grids — which already exist, albeit in limited fashion — could offer a kind of workaround to the frequency problem.
Political leaders said this year’s COP29 talks will center on a challenge they’ve failed for years to overcome: massively increasing funds to help poorer countries fight global warming.
Xcel Energy Inc. is taking a first-quarter charge of $215 million related to its role in the worst wildfire in Texas history.
Zach Hong has joined Perkins Coie as a partner in the intellectual property practice and patent prosecution subgroup in the New York office, the firm said Thursday.
Blow-out growth in the $1.7 trillion private credit market has come at a cost, namely investors’ inability to exit their holdings in a crunch. Now a market where investors can unload their stakes is taking shape.
A Houston personal injury lawyer and his former office manager have been charged in connection with a $2.4 million scheme to defraud clients of settlement proceeds, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
Ian Keefe and George Weavil will join Goodwin’s private equity practice as partners in the London office, the firm said Thursday.
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