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- Burden sharing in sale of fossil-fuel plants getting hard look by state (10/16/13)
CONCORD — A legislative oversight committee wants state regulators to determine if Public Service of New Hampshire electric users would benefit from the sale of the utility’s fossil-fuel burning generating plants.
- Protesters bus to New Jersey to fight coal plant (10/14/13)
In its latest protest of Connecticut's only coal-fired electric plant, two dozen members of the local Healthy Connecticut Alliance traveled by bus Monday from Bridgeport to the plant operator's headquarters in Newark, N.J.
- Editorial: Pulling the plug on Brayton Point (10/8/13)
Everyone suspected the closure of Somerset’s Brayton Point Power Plant was on the horizon, but few thought an announcement would be coming so soon.
- PSNH may be mulling divestiture of coal-fired plants (9/30/13)
CONCORD — Public Service of New Hampshire now appears willing to discuss divestiture of its coal-fired power plants with the Public Utilities Commission, even as it appeals the PUC's authority on the matter to the state Supreme Court.
- Transition committee ponders Somerset’s shift from coal power (9/9/13)
FALL RIVER — About 60 people turned out on a beautiful Saturday morning to discuss strategies on how to keep their town afloat as coal-fired power plants struggle. The loosely defined Somerset Citizen Transition Committee generated many ideas and concerns.
- Brayton Point union workers push to keep Somerset plant open (10/17/13)
SOMERSET — Union workers from coal-fired Brayton Point Power Station and their lawyer came to make their case to selectmen Wednesday night to keep the 1,500-megawatt plant open after last week’s company announcement it would close in mid-2017.
- Some business owners support shuttering of Merrimack station (10/9/13)
CONCORD — About 50 Concord area small-business owners are backing the efforts of several environmental groups to shut down Merrimack Station, Public Service of New Hampshire’s coal-burning power plant in Bow.
- Debate: Who covers loss if PSNH sells its plants? (10/2/13)
CONCORD — When Public Service of New Hampshire sold the Seabrook nuclear power plant in 2002, state Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, was among the lawmakers who negotiated a settlement that saw the $450 million loss split between ratepayers and company shareholders.
- EPA to propose emissions rules for older power plants (9/21/13)
WASHINGTON – The White House proposed strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants Friday but pledged to work with Maine and other states already in the carbon-regulation business as the Obama administration decides how to target older facilities.
- 70-mile walk backs clean energy (9/3/13)
The march began at Brayton, described on the power plant's website as "one of New England's largest fossil-fueled generating facilities."