In a case that could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans late last month (Mar. 27) extended its August, 2023 ban of a Texas above-ground spent nuclear fuel storage facility to nearby New Mexico, where Holtec International also has a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license for… More Court that nixed Texas nuke waste license kills New Mexico site

New England’s final coal-fired power plant is scheduled to shut down by June 2028 in an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and after a long-running dispute with New Hampshire environmentalists. Granite Shore Power, which operates peaking and intermittent power generation in the ISO-New England regional power grid, announced last week (Mar. 27) that… More New England goes coal free

A federal judge in Washington last month (Mar. 22) put on hold a 2022 Biden administration giant oil and gas lease sale covering some 128,000 acres of federal land, mostly in Wyoming. The sale consisted of federal acreage in six parcels: Wyoming, 119,564 acres; Montana and the Dakotas, 3,406 acres; Nevada, 2,560 acres; Colorado, 2,444… More Judge halts BLM Wyoming oil and gas lease sale