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Send Us the Bill		14 Jun 2001	Daily Grist
Send Us the Bill Former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was elected late last week to serve on the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Karen Golembeski, Richardson's spokesperson, said he was drawn to the group "primarily for its work on global climate change." Some folks in the know expect Richardson to run for governor of New Mexico next year. Richardson served in the House and as the U.S.'s amb ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, NRDC (all these topics)

Hole Lotta Love		10 Jan 2001	Daily Grist
Hole Lotta Love Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said earlier this week that the feds would research new ways to dispose of nuclear waste instead of incinerating the waste in southeastern Idaho. He formally accepted the recommendations of a panel that was appointed a year ago to study the matter after enviro groups, ski bums, Harrison Ford, and others in Jackson Hole, Wyo., raised a stink about the incineration pla ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Yuck Is Mountin'		13 Dec 2000	Daily Grist
Yuck Is Mountin' Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place to store all the country's high-level nuclear waste. The Las Vegas Sun last month obtained a 60-page draft report about the site and found a note attached to it suggesting the scientific stud ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

Lighting Las Vegas		10 Aug 2000	Daily Grist
Lighting Las Vegas The U.S. government plans to boost the development of geothermal energy systems in Western states, with the aim of having 10 percent of the West's electricity generated by the earth's heat within 20 years, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. Richardson detailed 21 partnerships between private industry and the Department of Energ ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, Nevada, politics, West (all these topics)

Good Clean Fun		24 May 2000	Daily Grist
Read more about: Bill Richardson Good Clean Fun Clothes-washing machines are going greener under an agreement unveiled yesterday between the U.S. government and major home appliance manufacturers. By 2007, Whirlpool, Maytag, General Electric, and other companies will make washing machines that use less water and 50 percent less energy than current models. More modest energy efficiency gains will be achieved by 2004. Manufacturers that exceed the efficiency standards in the agreement will get tax ...
Topics: Bill Richardson (all these topics)

A Real Windfall		28 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
A Real Windfall All federal agencies in the Denver area will be powered in part by wind under the U.S. government's largest contract to buy green energy, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. The agencies will buy 10 megawatts of power annually from wind farms operated by Colorado utilities -- enough energy to run 3,500 households for a year. Public Se ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Playing Chicken in Kiev		07 Feb 2000	Daily Grist
Playing Chicken in Kiev Ukraine plans this year to shut down the Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Ukranian Pres. Leonid Kuchma said Saturday. But Kuchma told U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, who was in Ukraine for a two-day visit, that the plant will close only after the U.S. and other industrialized nations hammer out a deal to h ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, international politics, nuclear power, politics, Ukraine (all these topics)

Duh.		31 Jan 2000	Daily Grist
Read more about: Bill Richardson Duh. The U.S. government is finally conceding that workers who helped make nuclear weapons at 14 plants have higher-than-normal rates of a wide range of cancers, most of them fatal. The conclusion comes from a draft report prepared at the request of Pres. Clinton. Since the Manhattan Project began 57 years ago, the government has until now talked down the hazards of radiation and chemicals, criticized studies that found cancer links, and spent tens of million of ...
Topics: Bill Richardson (all these topics)

Hot and Steamy		24 Jan 2000	Daily Grist
Hot and Steamy Geothermal power will get a boost today when U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announces a goal of generating as much as 10 percent of the West's electricity from geothermal sources by 2020. Richardson will announce $4.8 million in grants to advance research in geothermal energy, a renewable source that taps heat energy from under the Earth's surface. The Western U. ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, West (all these topics)

Atomic Bombshell		21 Sep 1999	Daily Grist
Atomic Bombshell Managers of a government uranium plant in Paducah, Ky., knew for decades that workers were being exposed to radiation hazards but concealed the information because of fears of a public outcry, according to documents to be released by a congressional panel this week. Memos and other documents showing what plant management knew and concealed have been turned over to a House Commerce Committee panel, which i ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

Plutonium Bombshell		09 Aug 1999	Daily Grist
Plutonium Bombshell Energy Secretary Bill Richardson yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into reports that thousands of unsuspecting employees at a government uranium plant in Kentucky were exposed on the job to cancer-causing plutonium and other radioactive materials. His announcement followed the publication yesterday of a Washington Post article on the issue. The Natural Resources Defense Council and workers f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

Urban Bright		04 Aug 1999	Daily Grist
Urban Bright The Department of Energy wants to put solar panels on vacant, contaminated urban industrial sites, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson will announce today. The project will get underway in Chicago, where a solar panel manufacturer has agreed to set up shop on a 17-acre former dump site, and the city and local electric utility have agreed to buy $8 million worth of solar pa ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Chicago, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

This Park Is a Hot Issue		18 May 1999	Daily Grist
This Park Is a Hot Issue Some 800 acres of tallgrass prairie and wetlands at the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant outside Denver will be set aside as a wildlife preserve, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. The new Rock Creek Reserve, home to a number of endangered species, was praised by local residents. Richardson also announced that the first shipments of transuranic waste from ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Colorado, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

The Answer, My Friend, Is Funding in the Wind		23 Apr 1999	Daily Grist
The Answer, My Friend, Is Funding in the Wind The U.S. is putting up $1.5 million to export American energy-efficiency technology to China, Russia, Ukraine, and a number of Latin American countries. U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced the grant yesterday at an Earth Day news conference in New York, also noting that the Clinton administration later this year would launch a five-year plan to ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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