Category: Other Climate/Energy News

In federal and state courtrooms across the country, environmental groups are putting coal-fueled power plants on trial in a bid to slow the industry’s biggest construction boom in decades.

At least four dozen coal plants are being contested in 29 states, according to a recent Associated Press tally. The targeted utilities include giants like Peabody Energy and American Electric Power and down to small rural cooperatives.

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http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/15/news/state/21-coal.txt

HELENA, Mont. – Montana Public Service Commissioner Ken Toole says PPL Montana tried to pressure NorthWestern Energy into accepting the company’s legislative agenda.

Toole called it “unethical” for PPL to seek such a guarantee as part of its 2006 price negotiations with NorthWestern. NorthWestern buys much of its energy from PPL then markets it to consumers.

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http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/01/17/ap-state-mt/d8u7p3mg0.txt 

CHOTEAU, Mont. — School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/us/17climate.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1200600135-C3OnRx++A46Hdr2y/O2ALw