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(Fri, 08 Apr 2016) At the end of 2015, the United States had 71 waste-to-energy (WTE) plants that generated electricity in 20 U.S. states, with a total generating capacity of 2.3 gigawatts. Florida contains more than one-fifth of the nation's WTE electricity generation capacity, and in 2015, Florida's Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility Number 2 became the first new WTE plant to come online since 1995 and the largest single WTE electricity generator in the United States.

ICE on Monday launched a new US coal futures contract for the Illinois Basin, which is making up a growing portion of the total US coal market, as Andrew Moore explains.

(Thu, 07 Apr 2016) EIA recently released new information on ethanol and biodiesel movements by rail. The new monthly estimates are integrated with EIA's existing <em>Petroleum Supply Monthly</em> and include movements beginning in January 2014. Unlike other liquid fuels that are most commonly transported by pipeline, ethanol and biodiesel are more often transported by rail because both fuels attract water and other impurities in pipelines.

The project has for more than half a century been regarded as essential to the survival of New York City if either of the two existing, and now aged, water tunnels should fail.