Topic: Electricity Generation
Another worker injured in Conn. explosion sues
AP News
Another worker injured in Connecticut power plant explosion sues companiesAnother worker injured in a Connecticut power plant explosion last month that killed six workers has filed a lawsuit accusing the companies handling the project of negligence. Authorities say the Feb. 7 explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown ...
Sen. Rockefeller seeks EPA carbon rule delay
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fight over U.S. President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives intensified on Thursday when an influential Democratic senator sought a two-year pause on regulations to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants and other smokestacks. Legislation calling for the delay was introduced by Senator John ...
Senators seek to block stimulus money for overseas
AP News
Democratic senators seek to block stimulus money from being spent on foreign jobsA group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries. "We can't jump-start ...
Sweden to build 2,000 new wind turbines: minister
AFP Global Edition
Sweden will build 2,000 new wind turbines over the next decade as part of a bid to dramatically increase its production of renewable energy, Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson said Tuesday. "Sweden has extremely good prospects for rapidly increasing the production of renewable energy, especially from the burning ...
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