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LCG, April 29, 2025--Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) today outlining the state’s plans to administer programs related to carbon storage wells, known as Class VI wells. The MOA signing is a required step in the RRC’s application to be granted authority to permit Class VI wells in the state of Texas. EPA is currently preparing a proposed approval of RRC’s primacy application.
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LCG, April 24, 2025--Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) announced yesterday an agreement with Calpine Corporation (Calpine) to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per annum (MTA) of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center, a natural gas-fired facility located near Houston, Texas. This is part of Calpine’s Baytown Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project that is designed to add CCS for the facility’s CO2 emissions. The Calpine facility could then provide a 24/7 supply of low-carbon electricity to the Texas grid plus steam to nearby industrial facilities.
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Industry News
SoCal Edison Cuts 1,450 More Jobs
LCG, Jan 8, 2001Southern California Edison Co. said late Friday that it planned to eliminate 1,450 jobs over the next few months, over and above the 400 layoffs it announced in late December. Together, the cuts amount to about 15 percent of the utility's workforce.The layoffs are part of an emergency plan to reduce expenditures in 2001 by close to a half-billion dollars.In a news release, SoCal Edison said the austerity program "will affect virtually every operation of the company, including a $100 million reduction in spending this year for electric system operations, maintenance and new investments. One outcome from this is that electric system components will be replaced only after they fail or are judged likely to fail soon."The affected workers will know whom to thank. Patrick Lavin of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 47, said the company told the union in a letter that "Workforce reductions will be included as a result of the too-little, too-late" one cent per kilowatt-hour rate increase granted last Thursday be the California Public Utilities Commission.Lavin Thinks service will suffer as a result of the job cuts. "This is work that isn't going to get done," he said, and SoCal Edison concedes the point but adds that any outages that occur won't be the fault of poor maintenance.Richard Rosenblum, the company's senior vice president for transmission and distribution, told a radio audience Friday that the penny-ante rate raise allowed by CPUC has increased the likelyhood of outages. "If such outages occur, as many as 20 percent to 40 percent of (our) customers could be without power at any one time," he said.
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