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VICTORY! DC Denies Exelon-Pepco Merger
DC’s Public Service Commission just shot down the plan for the nation’s largest nuclear utility, Exelon, to buy Pepco, the electric utility that services the Washington, DC area and a few neighboring states. This is a huge victory for ratepayers and the environment, since Exelon wanted to have the extra millions of ratepayers to push…
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AUDIO: Energy’s Water Footprint in the Western Drought
Drought in the western U.S. is in the news every day, yet most media coverage ignores the impact from water withdrawals for industrial power facilities. While municipal and agricultural use are major drains on limited water resources, so too are biomass, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power facilities. On August 20, EJN spoke with Stacy Tellinghuisen,…
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If You Build It, They Will Cut
Generating biomass energy doesn’t result in more logging, according to the biomass industry, whose spokespersons claim facilities only make use of “waste” wood already coming from existing logging operations. Ron Kotrba, Senior Editor for Pellet Mill Magazine, wrote in the May/June 2015 issue that biomass is the “most unlikely of the forest products to drive…
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