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The EPA has proposed to approve the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s application to issue permits for and regulate carbon storage wells.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsBy a vote of 7 to 1, the justices denied the application for a stay of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule, announced in April.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPSC Chair Charlotte Lane said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules would jeopardize hundreds of millions of dollars of investments in the state’s coal fleet.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe PSC granted a siting certificate to Competitive Power Ventures to build a $3 billion combined-cycle natural gas power plant a few miles southeast of West Union.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe power plant rules align with changes that have been happening in the sector in the past decade. Electric utilities have moved sharply away from coal, largely switching to natural gas.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe process of taking carbon out of the air and storing it is called carbon sequestration. Trees naturally sequester carbon by absorbing it out of the air, using it for energy, and storing some of that energy in their roots. New green technology called carbon capture can take CO2 released during the burning of greenhouse gasses out of the air. Air is filtered through a fan that uses technology to remove the CO2, turn that CO2 into a liquid, and then pump it into the ground.
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