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Tag: coal

Energy & Environment

Wind Energy On Track To Surpass Coal Power In Texas

Florian Martin

Posted on January 13, 2020 · Power generated from wind matched that from coal for the first time in 2019.

Tags coal energy power Renewable Energy wind

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1718: Lardner’s Steam Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 15, 2019 · Episode: 1718 The Rev. Dionysius Lardner: keeping up with a world in flux. Today, old books with a message for the present.

Tags coal Conservation handbooks hydrostatics locomotives Mary Shelley pneumatics railroads steam power technological change Trevithick water power

News

Senate Committee Advances Trump’s Pick For Energy Regulatory Seat

Travis Bubenik

Posted on November 27, 2018 · Democrats had criticized Bernard McNamee for his past comments promoting fossil fuels over renewables.

Tags Bernard McNamee coal Electric Grid electricity energy environment FERC texas

Houston Matters

Should Health Risks From Coal Plants Be A Higher Priority For TCEQ?

Abner Fletcher

Posted on November 12, 2018 · Rice environmental engineering professor Daniel Cohan discusses who's responsibility it is to insure Texas coal plants comply with federal emission standards.

Tags coal Daniel Cohan environment epa health health risks pollution sulfur dioxide emissions tceq Texas coal plants

News

Researchers Say Texas Regulations Ignore Most Harmful Pollutants from Coal

Travis Bubenik

Posted on October 30, 2018 · A new study says sulfur dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant coming from Texas coal plants.

Tags air quality coal energy environment industry Power Plants rice university

News

Clean Power Plan Rollback Wouldn’t Change Much about Texas’ Power Mix, Experts Say

Travis Bubenik

Posted on August 21, 2018 · The move would resonate more strongly in coal-heavy regions of the country than in Texas, where natural gas and renewables have advantages over coal.

Tags Clean Power Plan climate coal energy environment natural gas Trump administration

Houston Matters

Texas Could Soon Have More Authority to Regulate Coal Plant Emissions

Abner Fletcher

Posted on August 21, 2018 · Houston Matters learns about a new proposal from the EPA that would formally replace the Clean Power Plan.

Tags Affordable Clean Energy Rule Clean Power Plan coal coal plant emissions craig cohen energy Energy Regulation environment epa Felix Mormann Janet McCabe Victor Flatt

Houston Matters

Immigration Debate, And Coal’s Decline: The Good, Bad, & Ugly Of The Week’s News

Abner Fletcher

Posted on February 16, 2018 · Our panel of non-experts weighs in on the stories from this week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

Tags coal Immigration Debate Marcus Davis Monica Richart Natalie Arceneaux The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Energy & Environment

Third Texas Coal Plant Closes Since Start Of 2018

Travis Bubenik

Posted on February 14, 2018 · About 850 jobs are being lost from the plants shutting down.

Tags coal economics energy Luminant Power Plants

News

Perry’s Plan Would Subsidize Coal And Nuclear Power – But It Wouldn’t Apply To Texas

Mose Buchele, KUT

Posted on October 30, 2017 · The coal industry found an ally in Trump’s pick to helm the Department of Energy: former Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Tags coal Donald Trump energy

News

Perry Pursuing Policy On Coal, Nuclear Power At Odds With Texas Record

Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune

Posted on October 20, 2017 · As multiple Texas coal plants wind down operations, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is pushing a widely decried proposal to subsidize coal and nuclear plants in the name of grid resiliency.

Tags coal energy nuclear rick perry

News

Texas Communities Face Economic Challenges Following Coal Plant Closures

Jill Ament, Texas Standard

Posted on October 17, 2017 · Texas' largest generator of coal-powered energy, Luminant, said it is ceasing operations at two plants in the state

Tags coal Coal Plant Coal Plant Closures coal plants Economic Challenges energy market Luminant natural gas Rockdale

Energy & Environment

Coal Struggles In Texas, Despite Pro-Coal Administration

Travis Bubenik

Posted on October 17, 2017 · "Rhetoric's one thing, money’s another," said one energy researcher

Tags coal economics energy environment Luminant Power Plants

Houston Matters

Examining The Future Of Coal In Texas And Elsewhere

Abner Fletcher

Posted on October 10, 2017 · What's the future of coal now that the Trump administration is pulling out of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan?

Tags coal economy energy Monticello and Big Brown Public Citizen scott pruitt Trump administration

Energy & Environment

Environmental Groups Worry About New EPA Haze Rule

Travis Bubenik

Posted on October 9, 2017 · The agency plans to let Texas power plants pursue "alternatives" to retrofitting plants with emission controls

Tags coal electricity energy environment epa Power Plants Regional Haze Rule

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