Environment

Because AES Corp. refused the state of Maryland’s request to stay the federal consistency review of its proposed Sparrows Point LNG terminal, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) has denied the developer’s request for a finding that the project is consistent with the state’s Coastal Zone Management Program (CZMP).

Softness was moderately predominant in a mixed pricing environment Monday. Forecasts of pleasant to cool conditions Tuesday in the Midwest, Northeast and eastern end of the South resulted in drops at a majority of eastern points, although most of the Midcontinent recorded substantive gains.

Canadian Environment Minister John Baird Thursday unveiled a plan that for the first time ever would force the country’s industry to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollution.

Canadian Environment Minister John Baird last Thursday unveiled a plan that for the first time ever would force the country’s industry to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollution.

Characterizing his energy trading unit as having “tremendous liquidity and highly ample capital,” the head of Sempra Energy Commodities said he sees the environment for trading remaining mostly unchanged through 2009 with annual profits in the $350-450 million range. David Messer spoke at a financial analysts meeting hosted by Sempra in San Diego Thursday.

The year 2006 was a “good year” for interstate natural gas pipelines at FERC, with the agency providing a “very positive…environment to encourage interstate pipeline construction,” said the head of a major pipeline group.

The year 2006 was a “good year” for interstate natural gas pipelines at FERC, with the agency providing a “very positive…environment to encourage interstate pipeline construction,” said the head of a major pipeline group.

The UCLA Institute of the Environment’s 2006 “Southern California Environmental Report Card” assigned some barely passing grades to the entertainment industry on its environmental mitigation work.

Contrary to what some of his colleagues might believe, NRG Energy Inc. CEO David Crane says that carbon — its presence in the environment and what that means for global warming — is of preeminent importance to the power industry.