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Mussel Invasion Moves West
For more than two decades, mussel pests have threatened the water supply in the Great Lakes. Now they have crossed the Rocky Mountains. more
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States Look for Agreement on Electrical Transmission Siting
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT BEAT: A new effort is underway to break the logjam that is complicating energy transmission in much of the West and Midwest. more
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Feds Drop Plan to Consolidate Power Grid Decisions
TODAY'S TAKE: The Obama administration has cancelled a proposal that would have given a federal agency the authority to decide where new electrical power lines can be built.more -
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Feds Try Fast-Tracking Energy Transmission Approvals — Again
Previous efforts to speed up approval of interstate power lines didn't work out as planned. The Obama administration has a new plan, but many states are skeptical.more -
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Congress, States Try to Harness West Winds
The economic stimulus package before Congress includes incentives to build more electric lines for wind power. But state and federal leaders still must conquer imposing obstacles, from mountain ranges to a daunting economy to layers of red tape.more -
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Power Cos. Get Incentive to Save Kilowatts
Environmentalists have long touted conservation as the cheapest way to cut energy pollution, but power companies usually have little or no incentive to sell less electricity. This year, Idaho, Maryland and New York approved plans that allow utilities to preserve their expected profits while selling less electricity.more -
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Power Prices Put Utilities in the Hot Seat
Spurred by skyrocketing power bills, lawmakers in at least six states are considering reining in electric utilities that were freed from regulation in the late 1990s.more -
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Lawmakers Act to Preserve Endangered Night Sky
For decades, astronomers have warned that the intrusion of artificial light is threatening to wipe out a dwindling natural resource - the starry night sky. Now a growing number of city and state governments are taking up the fight to reclaim the night. For lawmakers, the issue is about energy efficiency and safety, as well as good stargazing. more
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States Push Pollution Rules, Power Line Authority
This was the year of the blackout, an almost unfathomable electrical failure that in minutes turned off the power from New York to Toronto to Cleveland on the afternoon of Aug. 14, stranding millions. It was also a year when states balked at White House efforts to rewrite the Clean Air Act in ways that some states fear will aggravate pollution and smog. Yet the states, while insisting that Washington keep enforcing environmental rules, also want the feds to keep hands off state power line decisions. more
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Southern Governors Oppose Federal Plan To Upgrade Grid
With an abundance of cheap, reliable electricity at their fingertips, governors from across the South are against federal plans to spread the costs of transmission grid upgrades among all the states. They say the proposal represents an assault on the South's economy, which depends on low cost energy to attract big manufacturers. more
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States Want Control Over Power Line Decisions
The Aug. 14 massive electrical blackout has renewed calls for more federal oversight of the nations power transmission system, but state officials want to retain some regional control over the location of power lines. more
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Governors Mull Blackout Solutions
Responding to the recent blackouts in Midwestern and Northeastern states, governors gathered here for the National Governors Association's (NGA) annual summer meeting said the nations electricity grid needs an upgrade, but did not agree on how to make it happen. more
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California Power Crisis Eases But Worries Remain
A year ago, electrical power in California was in short supply in some areas and exorbitantly expensive because of an unrestricted wholesale market dominated by the now-bankrupt Enron Corp. and a handful of other energy brokers. Since then, the state has worked itself into a power glut thanks to conservation efforts, moderate weather and state and federal intervention. But experts say underlying problems remain. more
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Electricity Deregulation Deadline Nears In Some States
Undeterred by the California power crisis, four states will complete their own electricity deregulation efforts in 2002 as they seek to give customers a greater choice of providers and new industry players a better shot at making money. more
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NGA Meeting Ends With Fed-State Plan on Electric Ills
Providence , R.I. - The National Governors' Association Tuesday unveiled a plan to work with the Bush administration to identify and fix problems with the U.S. transmission grid, the nation's electric power distribution system. more
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States Weigh Role on Export of Electricity
Mid-America is fast becoming ground zero for the biggest power plant construction boom since the 1970s. But much of the electricity generated by these new facilities will be exported to other parts of the country, leaving states without any real economic benefits from the plants' construction and with the financial burden of having to monitor their impact on local communities. more
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Electric Deregulation California's Christmas Grinch
Hailed in many states as a way to increase competition and lower customers' power bills, electric utility deregulation in California has turned out to be the grinch that is stealing Christmas cheer. As the state faces an unprecedented power supply emergency, residents are being urged to curb their use of electricity, including shutting off elaborate holiday displays. And in a tacit acknowledgement that California still has much to learn in its deregulation experiment, Gov. Gray Davis said last week that much of the crisis could be attributed to its newly deregulated power system. more