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Environmental 2008 P1



EPA issues final Yucca Mountain nuclear radiation standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set radiation standards for the proposed spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nev.

Ukraine adoption of green tariff welcomed
Ukraine's parliament this week passed laws introducing a feed-in tariff for renewable and alternative energy, a move welcomed by the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA).

E.ON plan to build UK coal fired power station in doubt after court verdict
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35 000 ($61 254) worth of damage to a coal fired power station, a UK jury decided yesterday.

FPL wants nuclear power counted as renewable
Florida Power & Light officials are asking state regulators to consider nuclear power as another form of renewable energy. FPL also asked that carbon reductions due to energy efficiency improvements its existing plants should also be considered when calculating percentages.

Xcel to shut 229 MW of coal-fired generation
Regulators approved a plan by Xcel Energy to shut down two coal-fired power plants in Colorado, thought to be the first time a utility has volunteered, and regulators have approved, a plan to shut down power plants because of CO2 emissions.

Australian parliamentary report calls for CCS incentives
The government should give Australia's coal-burning electricity companies more financial incentives to invest in technology to capture and bury the greenhouse gas they produce, a parliamentary report has said.

EU to swap carbon permits with UN programme
The European Union and the United Nations have agreed to start swapping carbon trading permits in October, the European Commission has announced.

Court tosses out CAIR emissions rule
A federal appeals court rejected the Bush administration's plan to reduce emissions from power plants, ruling the Environmental Protection Agency went beyond its authority to create the Clean Air Interstate Rule. Known as CAIR, the program used a trading scheme among utilities to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides at power plants in 28 located in the East and Midwest.

G8 summit: no clear target on cutting GHG emissions
One aspiration of the three-day G8 summit in Japan had been to achieve a breakthrough on climate change, but when the meeting came to a close today there was little evidence that progess had been made on this contentious subject.

Carbon capture and storage will not mitigate climate change - Greenpeace
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will not be developed in time to mitigate climate change, environmental pressure group Greenpeace said at the inaugural COAL-GEN Europe conference and exhibition in Warsaw, Poland.

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