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Due to competition with renewable energy and natural gas, coal production has been declining since 2008. [60] Currently the U.S. occupies five major basins or regions where coal is produced. The U.S. Energy Information Administration released coal production data of 2016 in January, reporting a 17% decrease from 2015 levels. [60]
What’s worse, California’s natural advantage in AI will be lost to Texas and other low-cost energy states. California’s industrial electricity prices averaged 21.98 cents per kilowatt-hour ...
Revised the Defense Production Act of 1950 to allow federal improvements to energy supply. Created financing regulations for solar, geothermal, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) energy. 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act: First comprehensive nuclear waste legislation. 1989 Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989
A new report on how the federal government can help create a "self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry" [6] New efficiency standards for home appliances, [ 7 ] A new National Fuel Efficiency Policy that will apply to cars from model years 2012-2016 and will ultimately require cars to have an average fuel efficiency of 35.5 mpg ...
"EPA’s final standards will significantly reduce emissions of harmful carbon pollution from existing coal-fired power plants, which continue to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions ...
Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions ...
The Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant outside Page, Arizona. The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating climate change that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. [1]
Between coal and gas plants, the EPA's new regulations are projected to eliminate 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047, the same as preventing the annual emissions of 328 ...