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In a move that may signal a willingness for future compromise, Texas and Oklahoma entered into a memorandum of agreement yesterday that will end further fighting over water usage at a Texas pump station that straddles state lines.

On September 18, 2013, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality ("ADEQ") issued a Title V / PSD Air Permit for the proposed $1.1 billion Big River Steel ("BRS") Mill in Mississippi County, Arkansas. In October 2013, BRS competitors Nucor Corporation ...

After receiving more than 2.5 million public comments, the EPA has withdrawn its April 13, 2012, proposed new source performance standard for emissions of carbon dioxide for new affected fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units. Based on public comments, the EPA published a new proposed standard on January 8, 2014, which includes a separate performance standard for fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units and integrated gasification combined cycle units that burn coal, petroleum coke, and other fossil fuels that is based on partial implementation of carbon capture and storage as the best system of emission reduction.

As part of the ongoing EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study, EPA will host a 1 hour webinar on Tuesday, January 21st at 2:30 EST. The webinar will provide a summary of recent technical roundtables attended by subject-matter experts.

A recent study by research scientists at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas-Austin has concluded that the state of Texas consumed less water as a result of using natural gas-fired power plants than it would have ...