In the wake of a recent federal case, large power plants are off the hook for now as far as complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2004 rule intended to protect fish and ...

EPA has proposed new standards for cooling water intake structures at existing power plants and factories. The proposal covers existing facilities with a design intake flow of at least 2 million ...

Thermal power plants need a continuous supply of cooling water to operate, but as the natural environment changes, more and more screen blockages are occurring at cooling water intakes. Maintaining ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules for existing power generating, manufacturing and industrial facilities that withdraw more than 2 million gallons of water ...

Throughout the country, utilities have been closely monitoring the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Section 316(b) rule requirements and compliance timeline to determine how the regulation may ...

On May 19, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a long-delayed final rulemaking regulating cooling water intake structures at existing facilities under Section 316(b) of the Clean ...

The American and Italian flags hang from the front of a tunneling machine that just finished drilling a three-mile tunnel under Lake Mead and into a water intake structure placed at the bottom of the ...

Compiled By Jill Jusko The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed the final regulation governing the design, capacity and construction of cooling water intake structures at new industrial ...