DFL Rep. Tim Walz and Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen (pictured) have joined together to urge Gov. Mark Dayton to sign a bill that would lift Minnesota’s moratorium on new nuclear power plants. The moratorium repeal is currently in conference committee after passing the House and is likely to end up on Dayton’s desk this legislative session.
Sen. Al Franken told the Rochester Post-Bulletin that he has changed his mind on nuclear power due to a conversation with former Vice President Al Gore. Nuclear power has become a hot topic in Minnesota politics as legislators, mainly Republicans, look to lift the ban on new nuclear power plant construction. That plan has already passed one committee in the Minnesota House.
The Obama administration has made it clear it wants to ramp up the use of renewable energy like wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy. But while utilities see green energy as a major growth prospect, they’re grappling with how to install and pay for lines to move energy — especially wind energy — to where it’s needed.
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Enbridge Energy, the firm behind a pipeline leak in Michigan that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of oil in a rural creek over the weekend, has had leaks in Minnesota 11 times since 2002, according to…
As expected, Robert Dudley will take over for embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward starting Oct. 1, The Washington Post reports. The company also announced today that it lost $17 billion in the second quarter of the fiscal year.
Kenneth Feinberg is overseeing a claims process that will ask victims of the spill to sign waivers forswearing future suits against BP — or to risk a protracted legal process.
A meeting Tuesday between President Obama and key senators produced few answers on the path forward for energy legislation. But a consensus may be forming around a price on carbon for the utilities sector only.
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