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Houston Oil Company To Invest In Zero Emissions Power Plant Technology
Posted on · Oil companies already use captured carbon to produce more oil from old fields, a process called "enhanced oil recovery."
Posted on · Oil companies already use captured carbon to produce more oil from old fields, a process called "enhanced oil recovery."
Posted on · A new study says sulfur dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant coming from Texas coal plants.
Posted on · The EPA argues the Obama Administration inflated the benefits of the rule.
Posted on · Episode: 1553 Galileo, Torricelli, von Guericke, and the idea of a vacuum. Today, we invent vacuum.
Posted on · The state is breaking records for electricity use at a time when power reserves have dropped.
Posted on · About 850 jobs are being lost from the plants shutting down.
Posted on · Episode: 2713 Storing energy for the power grid. Today, power.
Posted on · The new plan gives Texas power plants alternatives to installing costly emissions controls
Posted on · "Rhetoric's one thing, money’s another," said one energy researcher
Posted on · The agency plans to let Texas power plants pursue "alternatives" to retrofitting plants with emission controls
Posted on · Episode: 1336 In which Diesel engines violate their own metaphor. Today, a new breed of Diesel engines fights an old metaphor.
Posted on · The study looked at what would happen if Dallas company Luminant closed its Big Brown and Monticello power plants.
Posted on · Some industry analysts are calling coal a “zombie industry” – meaning it’s dying but still functioning. So far in 2016, U.S. coal production is 32 percent lower than it was a year ago, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Meanwhile, a new study says Texans are shifting away from relying on energy […]
Posted on · Texas and West Virginia are leading more than two dozen states who are challenging President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which establishes standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last month denied a request from Texas and other states to […]
Posted on · It’s sort of overlooked here in Greater Houston amid a prominent oil and gas industry, but we do still have coal-fired power plants. And a recent report from the Sierra Club is singling out one such plant in Fort Bend County. Today, we talk with the Sierra Club’s Chrissy Mann. She’s the Senior Campaign Representative […]