03.16.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
Consol Energy Inc., a leading U.S. coal producer that has increasingly developed a taste for natural gas, Monday sharply raised its bet on the cleaner-burning fuel with a $3.48 billion deal to buy Dominion’s oil and gas production business in...
03.12.2010
Arch Coal Inc. and Tenaska Inc. announced Thursday that Arch, the nation’s second-largest coal producer, has acquired a 35 percent equity interest in the Trailblazer Energy Center, a 600 megawatt coal plant Tenaska is developing near Sweetwater...
03.10.2010
The Energy Department announced Tuesday that NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to $154 million to support a post-combustion carbon capture and storage project in Texas that will use the captured greenhouse gas for enhanced oil recovery. The NRG...
03.09.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
In a deal advancing the natural gas industry’s push to replace heavily emitting coal-fired power plants with lower-emitting gas-fueled facilities, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter Friday announced an agreement with state lawmakers, green groups and Xcel...
03.08.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
In a bullish sign for the ambitious project, the developer of the Taylorville gasified coal power plant in Illinois last week submitted studies to the Illinois Commerce Commission showing that the facility would meet key cost, emissions and electricity rate...
03.05.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
A top American Electric Power official told a Senate panel Thursday that the timetables in legislation to impose stringent new limits on power plant emissions of three key pollutants are too aggressive, warning that AEP and other coal-dependent power...
03.05.2010
Coal state Democrats Thursday unveiled identical bills in the House and Senate that would suspend for two years pending Environmental Protection Agency rulemakings to regulate stationary-source emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, saying the delay is...
03.01.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
In a surprise move, Southern Company has declined to accept $295 million in federal cost-share money offered by the Energy Department for a large-scale carbon capture and sequestration demonstration project at the utility’s coal-fired Plant Barry in...
02.26.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
After months of delay and controversy, the Environmental Protection Agency last week announced it will propose in April new rules for managing coal ash waste from power plants, which appear likely to impose new requirements to prevent toxic leaks from utility...
02.23.2010 | BY JOHNATHAN RICKMAN
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency responsible for protecting streams against mining-related damage, has not required operators of mountaintop removal coal mining projects to provide financial assurances to ensure that they properly reclaim their...
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