Jeff Jarrett is Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy. According to whitehouse.gov: Before his service as the Director of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement within the Department of Interior, Mr. Jarrett served as...
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Jeff Jarrett is Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy. According to whitehouse.gov: Before his service as the Director of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement within the Department of Interior, Mr. Jarrett served as the Deputy Secretary for Mineral Resource Management in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and was previously the Director of the Bureau of District Mining Operations. From 1987 to 1994, Jeff was the Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Surface Mining at the Department of the Interior. He served with Cravat Coal Company and Affiliates from 1975 to 1987, excluding one year with the Drummond Company. From 1985 to 1987 he was Director of Planning and Evaluation for Cravat Coal Company, from 1979 to 1985 he was General Manager of the Company's Bluegrass Mining Division and from 1975 to 1978 he was the Director of Reclamation. Jeff received an Associate Degree in Land Stabilization and Reclamation from Belmont Technical College and received a B.S. from Geneva College.
U.K. Coal Plc, Britain's largest supplier of the fuel, advanced the most in more than seven years in London trading after it received an approach for its mining and power generation assets. Austria's Meinl International Power Ltd., asked for a meeting with U.K. Coal or its advisers in 2008, the Sunday Times said yesterday, citing a letter Meinl sent to the mining company. Discussions aren't expected, Doncaster, England-based U.K. Coal said today in a statement distributed by the Regulatory...
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has completed the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the FutureGen project, a near-zero emissions gasification power plant that, when operational in 2012, would be the first plant in the world to produce both electricity and commercial-grade hydrogen gas from coal, while capturing and sequestering greenhouse gas emissions.
Compare this strategy to China's, Russia's or Ukraine's use of coal
For more details, see the Energy Department's Fossil Energy...
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Most agree building more coal fired electric generating plants is not in the best interest of the country. There are plenty of reasons, but it’s hard to discount or argue the economic reasons. Since electricity must be consumed at the moment it is produced, we have an excess of generating capacity to satisfy the highest demand usually on the hottest day, and the hottest hour, and the hottest minute of the year. The lions share of our peak electric demand is needed for seasonal air...
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A 200-year tradition will come to an end in Europe's largest economy. On Wednesday, the German government approved phasing out coal mining by 2018. Germany's eight coal mines employ approximately 33,000 people.
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Tammy "Sunny" Sytch posted the following message on her MySpace page last night regarding former boyfriend Chris Candido, who passed away three years ago yesterday.
-TNA's Jeff Jarrett is scheduled to sign autographs at the Jamil Temple in Columbia, SC on May 9. Former TNA wrestler Raven is scheduled to appear on a live ...
Trouble in paradise? The buzz backstage at the TNA tapings was that Dixie Carter and Jeff Jarrett were going out of their way to avoid one another. Sources say this isn't the first time they've butted heads, but it was the first time that it was very obvious to most people backstage. source...
Although WWE wrestlers were told not to fraternize with their friends in TNA during WrestleMania weekend and their hotel is practically on lockdown, WWE senior vice president John Laurinaitis wsa spotted hanging out with TNA vice president Jeff Jarrett at a bar in Orlando on Friday night and into...
TNA is an American professional wrestling promotion company founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett in 2002. The company's Web site says it is ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released Wednesday a draft Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit public input to the FutureGen project where the DOE will help build commercial-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) clean coal power plants by providing funding for the...
SARANAC LAKE — Noble Environmental Power of Connecticut has announced it will provide a $50,000 development grant to North Country Community College to design a two-year degree and training program in alternative energy.
As Alaskans struggle with rapid increases in fuel costs, small communities are researching alternative energy concepts to lower their electricity expenses. Wind, solar and geothermal are possibilities for many Alaskan communities and in at least two, small nuclear reactor power sources are also...
VSE Corporation (Nasdaq:VSEC) reported today that its subsidiary Energetics Incorporated was awarded a new three-year, $7.2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Through this contract Energetics will assist NETL to provide...