Europe's Energy Facing Extreme Power Fluctuation

European countries are breaking renewable energy records, but experts are worried countries didn't use proper planning for where they built turbines.

Jul 26th, 2017

European countries are breaking renewable energy records, but experts are worried countries didn't use proper planning for where they built turbines.

Exxon Mobil Ups Spending on Emission Reduction Plan to $15B

Exxon anticipates year-end results showing a reduction of 15% to 20% in greenhouse gas intensity from upstream operations.

Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique team members, left, evaluate oil coverage as a hand crew worker scraps areas affected by an oil spill at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. A proposal to replace a pipeline near Santa Barbara that was shut down in 2015 after causing California's worst coastal oil spill in 25 years is inching through a government review, even as the state moves toward banning gas-powered vehicles and oil drilling.

Oil Pipeline Planned Even as California Moves Away from Gas

The project faces numerous hurdles, including a federal class-action lawsuit from property owners.

A natural gas well is juxtaposed with apartment buildings a few hundred feet away in Arlington, Texas, on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. The site, known as 'AC-360,' is operated by TEP Barnett, a subsidiary of French energy giant Total Energies. It is one of Total's 33 well sites in Arlington that contain 163 wells. The company has proposed adding three new wells at this site. Some residents of the predominately Hispanic and Black neighborhood, as well as parents and staff at a daycare near the site, oppose the plan, citing health concerns.

In Shadow of Texas Gas Drilling Sites, Health Fears Escalate

Living too close to drilling sites has been linked to a range of health risks, especially to children.

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Ship's Operator Awake for 50 Hours Before Crash

The impact did an estimated $72.9 million in damage.

The construction of a wind turbine blade at LM Wind Power.

GE Subsidiary Commits to Zero Waste Turbine Blades by 2030

Manufacturing waste represents one of the biggest challenges.

Conemaugh Generation Station, New Florence, Pa., Feb. 6, 2007.

Coal Plants to Close After New Wastewater Rule

Dozens plan to stop burning coal to comply with more stringent federal guidelines.

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U.S. OKs Gold Mine Exploratory Drilling in Idaho

The project had been halted following federal court rulings in 2019 and 2020 concerning potential harm to Yellowstone cutthroat trout in a stream.

The earth's shadow covers the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse, early Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. NASA and the nation's top federal nuclear research lab on Friday, Nov. 19, put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system.

NASA Seeks Ideas for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

If successful, the next objective would be Mars.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during a Juneteenth commemoration in Boston's Nubian Square on June 18, 2021. Baker is abandoning his administration's ambitious plan to create a multi-state compact aimed at dramatically reducing transportation pollution after the deal failed to gain traction in other states. The announcement comes after Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, who supported the initiative, indicated this week he was backing away from the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

Governors Abandon Pact to Reduce Transportation Pollution

The governors of other New England states — New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont — had expressed skepticism about the program.

In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Ricki Mills looks out from her home as she waits for a fire hydrant to be turned to get water, in Dallas on Feb. 23, 2021. Texas is again at high risk of power blackouts this winter because of extreme weather like the catastrophic February storm that buckled the state's electric grid and left millions of people without heat for days, regulators said Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.

Report: Texas Still at Risk of Winter Power Blackouts

Projections show that Texas could have a nearly 40% shortfall in available power to meet demand in the event of another severe winter storm.

This April 14, 2009, file photo, shows the new Parkway underground mine in Central City, Ky. A group of former coal company officials will go on trial in Kentucky next week for allegedly skirting federal rules meant to reduce deadly dust in underground mines. The four men on trial, who worked for now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal, ordered workers at two Kentucky mines, including the Parkway mine, to rig dust-monitoring equipment to pass air quality tests, federal prosecutors said.

4 Ex-Coal Mine Officials Cleared in Kentucky Fraud Trial

Federal prosecutors had alleged that the men ordered subordinates to tamper with dust collection equipment.

Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, near the village of Iliamma, on July 13, 2007. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, it is extending through May a timeline to decide how or whether to proceed with proposed restrictions on mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, which is known for its salmon runs.

EPA Sets Timeline to Weigh Next Steps for Pebble Mine

The Army Corps of Engineers last year rejected a key permit following an environmental review.