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Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG), The Murphy Firm and the Law Offices of Peter Angelos today announced that the parties have reached a settlement agreement regarding a class action lawsuit filed by residents in Gambrills, Md. who alleged they were damaged by the use of coal ash to reclaim a sand and gravel quarry in Anne Arundel County. The settlement is subject to approval by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The settlement provides for: -- The connection of 84 households,...
Hess, a US-based integrated energy company, has launched its C-Neutral program to commercial, industrial and institutional customers. Hess C-Neutral is a carbon-neutral energy program for natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. Through C-Neutral, Hess engineers calculate the carbon emissions associated with a customer's energy usage and include enough carbon offsets with the energy purchased to make it up to 100% carbon neutral. Gene Kutcher, Hess Energy Marketing's vice president of sales,...
TFS Energy, a leading interdealer broker and subsidiary of Compagnie Financiere Tradition, today announced it successfully brokered an energy efficiency Voluntary Emissions Reductions (VER) project between L2i Financial Solutions (L2i), a non-traditional corporate financing firm, and CarbonZero, a carbon offset retailer. The parties have signed an Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement to transact carbon offsets from a small-scale urban energy efficiency project in Montreal, Canada. The...
By Stephen Speckman Deseret News Six groups sent a letter Wednesday to Sevier County commissioners requesting a full environmental analysis of a proposal to dump waste from a yet-to-be-built coal-fired power plant 30 miles away from the plant on a property opponents say is prime wildlife habitat. The waste would consist of about 262,000 tons of coal combustion waste, or fly ash, which would be generated by the proposed Sevier Power Company's (SPC) 270-megawatt plant. "The proposed landfill...
A British start-up software company has developed new software that runs on mobile phones and detects when its user is walking, flying or driving in order to determine his or her carbon footprint. Called Carbon Diem, the new software will launch commercially next spring. It uses global positioning satellites (GPS) to measure speed and pattern of movement. Its creators say this allows their algorithm to identify a user's mode of transportation and calculate the amount of carbon dioxide...
HARBIN, China, Sept. 23, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chang-On International Inc. (OTCBB:CAON), a company engaged in green architectural products made of its innovative SF brand of synthetic resin, today announced an agreement with Heilongjiang Province Shuangda Electric Power Equipment Group for the supply of fly ash. Fly ash is a Coal Combustion Product (CCP), by-products of burning coal at electric utility power plants, and has minerals commonly found in the earth's crust. The Company...
By Evans, James Kvande, Halvor Enhanced for the Web This article appears on the JOM web site (www.tms.org/JOMPT) in html formal and includes links to other on- line resources. A special event at the TMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans in March 2008 was a plenary session sponsored by the TMS Light Metals Division. The purpose was, as given in the title of this article, to discuss "Sustainability, Climate Change, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: Responsibility. Key Challenges, and...
By Stephen Speckman Deseret News A proposed power plant in Sevier County hasn't been built yet, but the fear already is that elk, eagles and waterfowl will someday be sharing space with waste from the plant. Despite nearly seven years of trying, opponents haven't been able to stop a proposed 270 megawatt coal-fired power plant from being built near Sigurd on what watchdogs call valuable agricultural land. The permitting process for the plant is ongoing. But lately, naysayers have turned...
HARBIN, China, Sept. 9, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chang-On International Inc. (OTCBB:CAON), a Chinese manufacturer of green architectural products made of its innovative SF brand of synthetic resin, today announced the completion of its initial investigation of fly ash utilization in support of its international marketing and licensing strategies. Focusing on countries with the highest proven coal reserves, the Company examined annual production and utilization of the by-products, collectively...
By Stephen Speckman Deseret News A proposed power plant in Sevier County hasn't been built yet, but the fear already is that elk, eagles and waterfowl will someday be sharing space with waste from the plant. Despite nearly seven years of trying, opponents haven't been able to stop a proposed 270 megawatt coal-fired power plant from being built near Sigurd on what watchdogs call valuable agricultural land. The permitting process for the plant is ongoing. But lately, naysayers have turned...
