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Energy efficiency advocates hope settlement with FirstEnergy subsidiaries holds company accountable when seeking coal plant upgrades

Electric rates will drop by 3.7% next year for West Virginia customers under a settlement between energy efficiency advocates and FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison.
The West Virginia Public Service Commission approved the deal Wednesday. The utilities also must justify continuing coal plant operations and provide an economic analysis of plants for which they plan major improvements. The deal rejects the companiesâ application to modernize two coal plants, but the utilities can apply again.
FirstEnergy expects a multi-year modernization and improvement program at the plants to be complete by 2025. The program would include continuing air-emission reduction projects at both plants and new wastewater treatment projects to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyâs new effluent limitation guideline requirements, according to FirstEnergy spokesman Will Boye. ....

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Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019

Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Summary:
New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regar ....

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