The two-step regulatory dance between the old Trump administration and the current Biden administration continues with the Environmental Protection Agency’s mid-February decision on the scientific basis for lowering mercury air emissions from coal-fired power plants. The choreography is simple. Trump takes one step back from prior consensus regulation. Biden takes one step forward. The initial… More The Dance of Regulation: Biden Restores Rationale for Mercury Air Rules

NuScale’s small modular reactor project on federal land in Idaho, designed to provide electricity to Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, a joint action agency serving 50 municipal utilities in Utah, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming, has survived another near-death experience. Facing a vote by the participants in its project for six light-water… More Small Stories about Modular Reactors

Is the Biden administration prematurely pushing development of a particular way of generating hydrogen as a substitute for fossil fuels? That’s the argument in a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The analysis takes aim at including methane as a hydrogen feedstock, using carbon capture and sequestration technology to… More DOE’s Hydrogen Development Program Draws Fire

The Virginia legislature last week (Feb. 25) in the dying hours of the 2022 session approved a bill to change how the Old Dominion will regulate its giant, home-grown electric utility holding company, Dominion Energy. The bipartisan legislation is widely billed as, in the words of the Virginia Mercury, the statewide, online news service, “sweeping… More Virginia Solons Diminish Dominion?