Send Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock is assembling a pool of industry experts to review proposals for competitive electric grid transmission projects this year.
Want the Full Article? Readers must pay to access articles older than 15 days. Articles newer than 15 days are not included in this offer. Purchase Now
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog:
The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) is hosting an informal meeting on January 28, 2021 to discuss implementing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new total maximum daily load (TMDL) for temperature in the Columbia and Lower Snake rivers. On 18 May 2020, EPA released a draft TMDL for water temperatures in these rivers, and it invited public comment on the TMDL between 21 May 2020 and 21 August 2020. Ecology must now develop a plan to implement this new TMDL. Ecology’s implementation plan will impact a host of industries, as summarized below, including hydropower facilities, agriculture, forestry, industrial and manufacturing operations, and municipal waste water treatment plants along the Columbia and Lower Snake rivers subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. We will be monitoring what actions Ecology will require to implement the T
WEYMOUTH The natural gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River is expected to go back online soon, about four months after two emergency shutdowns at the plant.
Max Bergeron, a spokesman for the Canadian company that built the compressor station, said in an email Friday, Jan. 22 that the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has approved the station going into full service.
Bergeron said the station would “methodically be placed in service” with oversight from the federal agency.
“We expect to have the ability to start flowing gas through the compressor station for our customers in the coming days,” Bergeron said in the email.
The latest from EWG’s staff of experts
EWG News Roundup (1/22): Toxic Pesticides That President Biden Should Target, EPA Takes Initial Steps To Regulate PFAS and More
Friday, January 22, 2021
This week, President Joe Biden was sworn into office, which allows a brand-new opportunity to set safeguards to protect children from toxic pesticides. EWG broke down 11 pesticides and classes of pesticides whose use the new administration should target.
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would take preliminary actions to regulate the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in drinking water. The agency made a final determination to set drinking water limits for PFOA, a PFAS compound once used to make Teflon, and PFOS, a chemical that used to be an ingredient in Scotchgard – which is the first step in the long process of regulation.
20 January 2021
Macquarie’s Green Investment Group, the green investment arm of Australian investment banking giant Macquarie Group, announced on Tuesday that it would invest in esVolta, a developer and owner of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America.
The move will enable Macquarie to tap into California’s grid-scale battery boom which, despite the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, saw record-shattering success through 2020 and built a pipeline expected to continue delivering record figures through 2021.
Macquarie Group acquired the Green Investment Group (GIG) from the UK Government in 2017 in a deal worth £2.3 billion ($A4.2 billion), which had launched the previously-named Green Investment Bank in 2012 as a publicly funded bank designed to mobilise private finance into the green energy sector – serving a similar role to that of the Australian Clean Energy Finance Corporation.