The EPA is considering plans for cleaning up legacy coal ash ponds. Tell them to make sure this toxic mess doesn t jeopardize our communities.
Amid this patchwork of farm fields fortified with gray matchstick forests sits two centuries worth of waste from the coal industry. Since the United States began burning coal on an industrial scale in the 19th century, upwards of 35 percent of the immolated material has fallen to the bottom of boilers as ash. That ash has then been removed, mixed with water, and placed in ponds and landfills. Over 3 billion tons of it now occupy more than 1,400 sites across the United States. According to the industry s own data, over 90 percent of these sites contaminate groundwater with almost two dozen heavy and radioactive metals including arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, and radium at levels exceeding the EPA s health standards. A 2014 EPA study revealed that living next to a coal ash waste site increases one s risk of getting cancer from drinking grou
DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office Funds Next-Gen Turbine Blades and More
Feb. 23, 2021
DOE s Advanced Manufacturing Office is funding tomorrow s tech. Learn about the awards led and/or supported by NREL.
Photo by Werner Slocum, NREL
Utility-scale wind turbine blade design and production has remained relatively unchanged over the past 25 years. A National Renewable Energy (NREL)-led project is looking to evolve beyond business as usual, with the help of a recently announced FOA award from the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE s) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO).
Alongside partners TPI Composites Inc., Additive Engineering Solutions (AES), Ingersoll, Vanderbilt University, and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
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BIDEN LOOKS TO MOVE ON: The Biden administration is signaling a stand-down in a years-long effort to stop Russia from finishing the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany as it seeks to repair relations with Europe.
The latest evidence that
President Biden is looking to move on and negotiate a solution with Germany comes after his State Department issued a report to Congress Friday that identified only a single Russian ship and its owner as being in violation of U.S. sanctions. The ship, Fortuna, and its owner, KVT-RUS, were already sanctioned in January by the Trump administration, although the new penalties are triggered under a dif
LCRI is a five-year initiative that brings together industry stakeholders to accelerate development and demonstration of low- and zero-carbon energy technologies through transformative, clean energy research and development.
“As industry and government take aggressive action to address climate change, LCRI is identifying and accelerating low-carbon options essential to a clean energy future,” said Neva Espinoza, Vice President of Energy Supply and Low-Carbon Resources. “Together EPRI and GTI are driving a historic effort, combining our unique technical expertise with deep experience from leading energy companies to make a net-zero future possible.”