Republicans move forward against coal ash regulation

By Chris Hamby

Amid health risks, worries about a threat to jobs and the economy

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"… d McKinley, have said labeling coal ash hazardous would increase costs for electric utilities and independent power producers, drive up energy costs and harm companies …"

The politics of energy: Oil and gas

By Kevin Bogardus

WASHINGTON, December 15, 2003 — The sweeping energy bill now pending in Congress offers a geyser of new tax breaks and other government good

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"… e’s work private. In separate court cases, the government watchdog group Judicial Watch and the environmental group the Sierra Club are trying to obtain similar i …"

Top five lobbyist bundlers revealed; four worked exclusively for Democrats

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Only in Washington, D.C., would "bundling" be a highly prized skill. And perhaps only in the nation's capital would an exclusive ranking of

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"… tion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including increased regulation of electric utilities. But the group neither endorsed nor opposed the main climate change bill, …"

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One town’s recurring coal ash nightmare

By Kristen Lombardi

Stand before the pond known here in southwestern Pennsylvania as Little Blue Run, and you’ll see nothing that resembles its bucolic-sounding

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"… ate flared anew after a disastrous December 2008 coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee. The EPA reacted by pledging to regulate the toxic byproduct of burning co …"

"… s also approved a $268 million, four-year plan to remove coal ash from the Tennessee site, but some estimates put the total clean-up price at $825 million — …"

The climate lobby's nonstop growth

By Marianne Lavelle

Makers of sneakers, blue jeans, and computer network servers joined forces late last fall and vowed a bigger push in Congress on climate cha

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"… climate clients expand. Sliz’s firm represents consumer-owned water and electric utilities from across the country, including the Imperial Irrigation District, in So …"

Big coal's big-time lobby

By Matthew Lewis

Convention-goers in Denver and St. Paul won’t be able to miss the $2 million advertising blitz planned by businesses promoting “clean coal”

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"… that mine the black diamonds, to the rail companies that haul them, to the electric utilities that burn them. According to the Center’s analysis, 27 of those companie …"

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"Beneficial use" of Coal Ash in question as EPA mulls regulation

By Kristen Lombardi

Nearly every day over the last 32 months, members of a citizens group in Giles County, Va., have paid a visit to a seven-acre stretch of lan

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"… nt, concrete, and God only knows what else?”It’s a sentiment echoed by electric utilities and their industry partners, which favor the EPA’s second option — reg …"

Republican duo supported by energy industry seek to rein in EPA on coal ash

By Kristen Lombardi

Two recipients of congressional campaign dollars from the energy industry seek to stymie environmental protections on coal ash. Their method

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"… k in $54,000 in campaign contributions from energy companies — half from electric utilities that would be affected by EPA regulations for coal ash. During his 2010 ca …"

Fred Upton — Energy and Commerce Committee?

By Kristen Lombardi

Since 1987, Fred Upton, 57, has represented Michigan’s 6th Congressional District, which spans the southwestern corner of the Wolverine Stat

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"… ign funds have come from telecommunications companies, as well as from the electric utilities and the drug makers that have business before the Energy and Commerce Comm …"

A most favored corporation: Enron prevailed in federal, state lobbying efforts 49 times

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2003 — Enron Corp., which ran a formidable lobbying machine in Washington and state capitals, gained favorable treatm

Excerpts from this story referencing "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission":

"… he country in less than five years after the act’s passage. In 1996, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued the open-access rule, which forced utilities to unbundle gen …"

"… at the University of Houston and worked in the Interior Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the Nixon administration, headed the new company, which struggled with …"

"… el, the agency that bestowed the most favorable decisions on Enron was the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the organization tasked with overseeing the energy market. Many of the ru …"

"… inalapproval in May 1990.Restructuring ofnatural gas pipeline operationsTheFederal Energy Regulatory Commission restructured interstate pipelineoperations in April 1992. It separated sal …"

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