Holtec International’s proposal to build an interim storage facility for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico faces political headwinds in the state, with its two U.S. senators opposing it and one of the project’s most important...
Despite rising U.S. natural gas production and a massive buildout of pipelines, domestic demand for gas fell significantly in 2017, leaving exports of liquefied natural gas and cross-border shipments to Mexico as the only segments of the market...
A contractor hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority to clean up a massive coal ash spill at one of the federal utility’s power plants has been sued by dozens of cleanup workers who say they were sickened by exposure to toxic residues in the ash...
A 20 megawatt solar plant in Maryland appears likely to be an early casualty of the recently bankruptcy of FirstEnergy Solutions because the merchant generator is asking a bankruptcy court to invalidate a contract to buy power from the Maryland Solar...
In another move to block a natural gas pipeline, New York environmental regulators Friday denied a water quality permit under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act for an extension of Williams Partners’ Transco pipeline system, which is intended to...
Michigan regulators last week approved a new “inflow-outflow” billing mechanism to replace the state’s solar net metering program, a change aimed at addressing utility complaints that home solar customers do not pay their fair share of grid costs and...
In a blow to the state’s incumbent utilities, the Virginia Supreme Court has backed a ruling by state regulators that large energy consumers in the state may buy 100-percent renewable energy offerings from competitive power suppliers even if Dominion...