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Posted 3 weeks ago
Texas - Thompson & Knight Partner Scott Deatherage will be a featured speaker at Hart Energy's 2008 Energy Solutions conference being held November 6th through 7th in Houston, Texas. Deatherage will d
Tags: demand sustainability
Posted 3 weeks ago
Texas- Earlier this month, Xcel Energy entered into a settlement with the state of New York as a result of an investigation of several publicly traded utility companies with coal-fired power plants,
Tags: climate risk
Posted 5 weeks ago
Xcel Energy entered into a settlement with Andrew Cuomo, the Attorney General of New York, as a result of an investigation of several publicly traded utility companies that the Attorney General's offi
Posted 7 weeks ago
The Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Robert Herz, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal challenging the editorial published in the paper criticizing the proposed new st
Tags: investment investors
Posted 8 weeks ago
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reviewing its Environmental Marketing Guidelines or Green Guides. One of the issues it considered earlier this year and conducted review of are carbon offsets
Posted 9 weeks ago
On June 30, 2008, the Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia revoked a permit for construction of a proposed 1200-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the state. The court truled that the permit is
Posted 9 weeks ago
Three utilities settled a dispute under the Clean Water Act in which environmental groups alleged that the cooling water system violated the Act. We Energies, Madison Gas & Electric, and Wisconsin P
Posted 9 weeks ago
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a Texas request to reduce the national biofuels mandate in half for a year, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said today. Texas Gov. Rick Perry request
Posted 9 weeks ago
The Wall Street Journal in an opinion piece criticizes the proposal of the Financial Accounting Standards Board to revamp how companies report loss contingencies , which includes potential losses fro
Posted 9 weeks ago
EPA is set to propose new federal greenhouse gas reporting rules in September. Under a provision inserted into the Omnibus Spending Bill in late 2007, the EPA must propose rules by September of this
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