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- The Brayton Point power plant is being sold again, but new owner will still shut it down (8/22/14)
Brayton Point is getting a new owner, but it still won’t be saved from the wrecking ball. The massive coal-fired power plant on the South Coast will be acquired by Houston’s Dynegy Inc. in a $3.45 billion deal
- Industry group rejects plan that would help ensure Salem power plant’s financing (7/1/14)
Building a major power plant in New England isn’t necessarily easy for anyone. But it’s becoming particularly tough for Footprint Power, the developer behind the nearly 700-megawatt gas plant that would replace the coal- and oil-fired dinosaur in Salem that shut down a month ago.
- Maine business owners throw their support behind new federal carbon pollution limits (2/12/14)
PORTLAND — Damariscotta River oyster farmer Bill Mook said on May 9 of last year, the average daily amount of carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere crossed the 400-parts-per-million threshold.
- After rejecting request to delay shutdown, Brayton Point moves to close coal-fired plant in 2017 (1/29/14)
The owner of Brayton Point Power Station will move forward with a plan to shut down the coal-fired plant in 2017 after it turned down a request from the operator of the regional power grid to delay closing.
- Frigid spell diverts natural gas from New England’s power grid (1/7/14)
For the second time since Friday, frigid temperatures in New England are forcing a realignment of how natural gas is used to power the region -– a renewed reminder that increasing reliance on natural gas, coupled with limited pipeline capacity to deliver it, has ramifications for the reliability of the electric grid and, potentially, the cost to consumers.
- PolitiFact R.I. rules Sen. Whitehouse claim on solar, coal jobs is True (7/6/14)
PROVIDENCE -- For more than a year, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has delivered weekly Senate speeches about the dangers of climate change. He frequently denounces climate-change deniers, and urges growth of green jobs and technologies to reduce America’s reliance on foreign fossil fuel.
- New England power pollution drops 21% (4/8/14)
The amount of greenhouses gases emitted by New England's power plants dropped 21 percent from 2001 to 2012, according to electric grid administrator ISO New England.
- New England power plant closings pinch supply (2/5/14)
HARTFORD (AP) – The retirement of several power plants in New England is reducing power supply and driving up prices, the region’s electric grid operator warned Wednesday
- Opponents try to turn up the heat in Bow coal scrubber case (1/9/14)
What did Public Service of New Hampshire officials know and when did they know it? And did they withhold information from regulators when the decision was made to go ahead with a $420 million scrubber on the coal-burning Merrimack Station plant in Bow?
- New England coal plants, electricity prices firing up (12/17/13)
Connecticut and the rest of New England became increasingly dependent on coal and oil plants in December, driving up the price of electricity, as the region's overreliance on natural gas is reaching its breaking point.