Environmental Impact Statement Articles & Analysis
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” The new report also highlights the economic impact of offshore wind on domestic U.S. shipbuilding, port infrastructure, and other supply chain activities. ...
On April 25, 2024, DOE released a new Federal permitting reform rule that significantly streamlines Federal environmental review and permitting processes for qualifying transmission projects, cutting review timelines while maintaining the integrity of the environmental review process. ...
The BLM is currently taking comment on a draft analysis of the Utility-Scale Solar Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, with the goal of streamlining the BLM’s framework for siting solar energy projects across the West in order to support current and future national clean energy goals, long-term energy security, climate resilience, ...
After carefully considering the analysis and alternatives in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), including public comments on the Draft EIS, the Department has approved a combination of Alternative B and Alternative D-1, which includes up to 176 wind turbine generators, each with a capacity of 14.7 megawatts. This combination will ...
After considering the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) alternatives, including public comments received on the draft EIS, the Department has approved Revolution Wind's Construction and Operations Plan (COP) under its preferred Alternative G identified and analyzed in the EIS. ...
Federal revenues are expected to be more than $3 million annually to the U.S. Treasury. Environmental Benefits and Impact Mitigation The Project is expected to generate renewable electricity that would annually offset greenhouse emissions of about 83,000 cars (384,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent). The hybrid alternative specified in the ROD also ...
Earlier this month, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) delayed the expected completion date for its Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) until December 2020. "While we need to analyze what a longer permitting timeline will mean for beginning construction, commercial operation in 2022 is no longer expected," Vineyard Wind said in ...
It charges that the decision to permit this change in species poses significant environmental risks and that it depends on mitigation measures that will not prevent the well-documented environmental harm this proposal poses to Puget Sound. ...
Nevada solar plus storage project clears environmental hurdle The 690 MW Gemini solar plus storage project in Nevada looks set to receive federal approval after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a favorable Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) December 30. BLM will close its final comment period on January ...
The PPAs will include the 690 MW Gemini Solar project, which is expected to host 2,125 MWh of battery storage capacity, according to a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) published by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC). The facility will provide private sector developers access to US national laboratory assets and infrastructure to support the testing and demonstration of reactor concepts and assess their performance, helping accelerate licensing and commercialisation. The NRIC is established under the provisions of ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority released its final Integrated Resource Plan and associated Environmental Impact Statement on 8/16 that evaluates options to meet the region's power generation needs over the next 20 years. ...
The BOEM will also prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the construction and operations plan for the South Fork Wind Project offshore Rhode Island and will publish a call for expressions of interest to build offshore wind plants off central and northern California, the DOI said. ...
The Secretary spoke at the American Wind Energy Association's Offshore Wind Conference and announced 1.) much-anticipated wind auction in federal waters off the coast of Massachusetts; 2.) the environmental review of a proposed wind project offshore Rhode Island; and 3.) the next steps to a first-ever wind auction in federal waters off of California.Wind Auction Offshore ...
Army Corp of Engineers announced it would not grant a final permit for the DAPL to be completed, and would instead conduct an environmental impact statement before continuing the review process. The decision was viewed as a major victory for opponents of the pipeline, including the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota, who claim the pipeline ...
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(NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement to provide National Environmental Policy Act support services to the U.S. Department of Energy. ...
The approvals mean that, after a decade of government review, the first turbines could be constructed as soon as next year, according to officials at Power Company of Wyoming (PCW), which is developing the project. BLM issued an environmental assessment of the project in March of last year, which incorporates and builds on an analysis undertaken in a 2012 ...
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Federal regulators have finished a seven-year environmental impact study of Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) Turkey Point expansion project in Florida, although a safety and legal challenge remain. ...
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced the availability of a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzing the possible environmental impacts of a potential oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, off Alaska’s south central coast. ...
On Tuesday, August 18th, EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)will hold a national public hearing in Long Beach, California, to receive comments on their joint proposed rules, ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles—Phase 2,’’ and also for NHTSA’s Draft ...