The EPA has lodged a proposed consent decree requiring
Mar 15, 2024 22:34:56 GMT -5
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Lake Michigan Carferry Service, Inc. (LMC) of Ludington, Mich., to eliminate the discharge of coal ash from its SS Badger ferry, the last coal-fired ship on the Great Lakes, by the end of the sailing season. In and , the ferry will reduce its discharge of coal ash into Lake Michigan and LMC will pay a $, civil penalty for violating mercury water quality standards in , according to the proposed consent decree. The boat was ordered to stop the dumping by the EPA in and was given a four-year grace period, which expired in December. LMC recently asked the agency for more time to comply with the order but the EPA said it plans to disregard that request.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued orders concluding that PJM Interconnection and the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) have largely complied with the requirements of Order No. , designed to make major progress towards a more CG Leads productive and efficient electric transmission grid, but the agency directed the organizations to clarify and refine their proposals. FERC concluded that WestConnect region compliance filings partially complied with Order No. , but offered guidance to public utility transmission providers in the region and directed further compliance filings.
Kansas City, Kan., and the Unified Government of Wyandotte Co. agreed a settlement with the federal government to address unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater. The county must perform initial work to address overflows, implement improved operation and maintenance programs, and institute improved storm water management and overflow control plans. Since , the Unified Government has reported more than illegal sewer overflows that discharged raw sewage into the Missouri River, the Kansas River and their tributaries, the EPA said.
In the joint project by the two universities, researchers combined CO with a gas called ethylene in the presence of nickel and other metal catalysts to make the chemical. CO is essentially free and something the planet currently has in overabundance. Ethylene is cheaper than propylene and can be made from plant biomass, the universities say.
Researchers have been looking into the possibility of making acrylate from CO since the s, but there has been a persistent obstacle to the approach. Instead of forming the acrylate molecule, CO and ethylene tend to form a precursor molecule with a five-membered ring made of oxygen, nickel and three carbon atoms (pictured). To finish the conversion to acrylate, that ring needs to be cracked open to allow the formation of a carbon-carbon double bond, a process called elimination.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued orders concluding that PJM Interconnection and the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) have largely complied with the requirements of Order No. , designed to make major progress towards a more CG Leads productive and efficient electric transmission grid, but the agency directed the organizations to clarify and refine their proposals. FERC concluded that WestConnect region compliance filings partially complied with Order No. , but offered guidance to public utility transmission providers in the region and directed further compliance filings.
Kansas City, Kan., and the Unified Government of Wyandotte Co. agreed a settlement with the federal government to address unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater. The county must perform initial work to address overflows, implement improved operation and maintenance programs, and institute improved storm water management and overflow control plans. Since , the Unified Government has reported more than illegal sewer overflows that discharged raw sewage into the Missouri River, the Kansas River and their tributaries, the EPA said.
In the joint project by the two universities, researchers combined CO with a gas called ethylene in the presence of nickel and other metal catalysts to make the chemical. CO is essentially free and something the planet currently has in overabundance. Ethylene is cheaper than propylene and can be made from plant biomass, the universities say.
Researchers have been looking into the possibility of making acrylate from CO since the s, but there has been a persistent obstacle to the approach. Instead of forming the acrylate molecule, CO and ethylene tend to form a precursor molecule with a five-membered ring made of oxygen, nickel and three carbon atoms (pictured). To finish the conversion to acrylate, that ring needs to be cracked open to allow the formation of a carbon-carbon double bond, a process called elimination.