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- 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.
- 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.
- State (CT) takes on wood furnaces (9/3/13)
For years, the advocacy group Environment and Human Health Inc. has led the battle against outdoor wood furnaces, claiming their smoke is bad to breathe. Now it has an ally -- Attorney General George Jepsen.
- Former PSNH chief must answer questions on Bow scrubber (8/28/13)
CONCORD — Former PSNH President Gary Long has been ordered by the Public Utilities Commission to submit to a deposition, as the regulatory agency tries to sort out whether PSNH acted prudently and in the interest of ratepayers when it proceeded with the costly installation of pollution control systems on the Merrimack Station coal-fired plant in Bow.
- Closure of PSNH coal-fired plants could be costly (8/5/13)
CONCORD — As a legislative committee prepares for its third meeting Wednesday on the future of PSNH's coal-fired power plants, the utility's owners expressed confidence that they will be able to recover costs associated with the plants even if the state orders them to be sold or shut down.
- CT power plants rank far down ‘dirty’ list (9/13/13)
None of Connecticut's electricity power plants rank in the top 100 for most carbon dioxide produced each year, according to a new study from Environment America.
- Cruise visits to Portland on course for polluting less (9/5/13)
Carnival, whose vessels frequent the city, will use a new exhaust gas cleaning system on 32 of its ships over the next three years.
- Little support on oversight committee to force PSNH to sell fossil fuel power plants (8/28/13)
CONCORD — Forcing the state's largest electric utility to sell its fossil fuel-burning power plants had scant support at a legislative oversight committee meeting Wednesday
- Eliot selectmen to seek EPA probe of emissions (8/23/13)
ELIOT, Maine — The Board of Selectmen on Thursday night unanimously agreed to send a Good Neighbor Petition to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, asking it to investigate whether Schiller Station in Portsmouth, N.H., has violated the Clean Air Act.
- DEP calls for weakening of Maine smog regulations (7/30/13)
The proposed changes would exempt major new or newly upgraded industrial polluters in Maine from several measures that aim to reduce ground-level ozone in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act