PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall Trial

We finally have some good news to share with respect to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s foolish plan to force PA’s… Continue reading The post PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall Trial first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Utica-Fired Trumbull Energy Center a Go After Vote by Warren, OH

In January 2017 Clean Energy Future (CEF), based in Massachusetts, announced it would build a second Utica gas-fired power plant… Continue reading The post Utica-Fired Trumbull Energy Center a Go After Vote by Warren, OH first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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West Virginia Wins Supreme Court Case Against EPA re Power Plants

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA that changes everything. It’s hard to… Continue reading The post West Virginia Wins Supreme Court Case Against EPA re Power Plants first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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U.S. Power Generators Switch from Coal to NatGas Lifting Prices

Production of coal is down in the U.S. Exports of coal are up. Given its scarcity, the price of coal… Continue reading The post U.S. Power Generators Switch from Coal to NatGas Lifting Prices first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Big Step – Georgia Power Uses 20% Hydrogen Mix in Power Plant

In April MDN told you about a world first when the gas-fired power plant (currently powered by Utica Shale gas)… Continue reading The post Big Step – Georgia Power Uses 20% Hydrogen Mix in Power Plant first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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SWPA NatGas Fuel Cell Backed by EQT Wins Product Certification

A fuel cell manufacturer located in Westmoreland County, PA, WATT Fuel Cell, disclosed in February that it had closed on… Continue reading The post SWPA NatGas Fuel Cell Backed by EQT Wins Product Certification first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Hudson River Gas-Fired Plant Loses Appeal of Permit Rejection

Big Green groups are rejoicing that they have convinced a New York State judge to rule that an existing natural… Continue reading The post Hudson River Gas-Fired Plant Loses Appeal of Permit Rejection first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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DTE Energy’s Michigan Gas-Fired Plant Begins Commercial Operation

In August 2018 DTE Energy broke ground on a new state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in St. Clair County, Michigan… Continue reading The post DTE Energy’s Michigan Gas-Fired Plant Begins Commercial Operation first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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OH Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Overturn Nuke Bailout Law

There is finally movement in Ohio to repeal an odious law passed by Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature called House Bill 6, which funnels over $1 billion from Ohio ratepayers to FirstEnergy Corporation in order to keep the company’s unprofitable nuclear power plants running (while disadvantaging other power sources, like gas-fired plants). FirstEnergy is accused of bribing

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Why PA Gov. Wolf’s RGGI Carbon Tax Needs Legislative Approval

Whether or not you agree with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s idiotic plan to join something called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax that will force PA residents to pay $2.36 billion in higher electric costs over a 10-year period (and shut down coal and gas-fired power plants), there is one thing we

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Antis on Tirade Against Duke Energy Plan to Build Gas Power Plants

Duke Energy has plans to build multiple new clean-burning natural gas-fired power plants to supply its grid over the next 15 years–some 4.7 gigawatts of new gas-fired plants (see Duke Energy Plans Lots of New Gas-Fired Plants in NC/SC/Elsewhere). Of course, anti-fossil fuel wackos are objecting. They have a “better” plan in mind for you…This

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Thailand’s Banpu Buying U.S. Gas-Fired Power Plant in 1H21

Banpu is Thailand’s largest coal mining company. But Banpu is far more than just a coal company. It has multiple subsidiaries in various energy industries scattered around the globe. For example, here in the U.S. Banpu partners with Kalnin Ventures and operates BKV Corporation, the American shale drilling arm of Banpu. We spotted an article

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IRRC Recommends PA EQB Delay Adopting Wolf’s Carbon Tax

Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) has just thrown up a huge roadblock to Democrat/autocrat PA Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to railroad through a proposal to force PA to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a $2.6 billion carbon tax aimed at killing coal and gas-fired power plants. The IRRC told the rule-adopting Environmental

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Generation Now Pleads Guilty in $61M FirstEnergy OH Nuke Scandal

On Friday, representatives of a “dark money” political action committee called Generation Now signed a guilty plea admitting their part in the biggest bribery scandal to ever hit Ohio. Generation Now was set up as a social welfare nonprofit but in reality was a shell organization that received “tens of millions of dollars” from FirstEnergy

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Ohio AG Succeeds in Blocking $2B in Nuke Payments to FirstEnergy

Ohio AG Dave Yost We continue to peel back the layers of the rotten, smelly, stinky onion that is Ohio’s House Bill (HB) 6, a law granting billions (plural) to FirstEnergy in an attempt to prop up the company’s economically failing nuclear power plants. FirstEnergy is accused of bribing legislators to pass, and keep passed,

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