Aug 4, 2014 | BCAP, Biomass, Business Impact, Business News, Economics, Environmental, Governor LePage, Industry News, LePage Administration
ReEnergy to Resume Operations at Biomass-to-Energy Facility in Ashland, ME Ashland, ME – August 4, 2014 – ReEnergy Holdings today announced plans to resume operations at its biomass-to-electricity facility in Ashland, ME. “We are very pleased to be resuming operations...
Aug 16, 2011 | Biomass, Business Impact, Economics, Environmental, Federal Regulations
The EPA has released its timeline for the MACT reconsideration period. By Lisa Gibson | July 28, 2011 Although the U.S. EPA had already announced in February that it would allow a reconsideration period for certain aspects of the Maximum Achievable Control Technology...
Jul 11, 2011 | Biomass, Environmental
By TED GRIGGS, The Advocate NEW ROADS, La. – NRG Energy Inc. had a bold experiment in mind in 2009 burning switchgrass and sorghum along with coal at its New Roads power plant in what could lead this year to a full-fledged biomass program. The effort failed when...
Jul 7, 2011 | Biomass, Business Impact, Environmental, Federal Regulations
The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it finalized rules that compel 28 states and the District of Columbia to curb air pollution that travels across states by wind and weather, the first in a series of federal...
Jul 5, 2011 | Biomass, Business Impact, Business News, Economics, Environmental
By Buffy Spencer, The Republican Friday, July 01, 2011, 5:53 PM On Thursday the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued a Conditional Air Quality Plan Approval to Palmer Renewable Energy for a biomass-fired power generating facility at 1000 Page...
Mar 31, 2011 | Biomass, Business News, Environmental, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulations
By Charles Babington WASHINGTON—The Obama administration’s bid to regulate greenhouse gases, after losing last year’s congressional debate over global warming, is making the Environmental Protection Agency the focus of Republican attacks on federal...