How many times have you heard it said: “If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we (you fill in the blank)?” On July 20 we commemorated…
Power
Monthly Issue | August 3, 2009
The typical pulverized coal power plant in the U.S. is about 35 years old, yet the fleet is expected to continue operating for many years to come. New coal-fired plants…
Reducing dust from coal conveyors has moved from a housekeeping chore to a safety challenge, especially with Powder River Basin coals. The recent OSHA Combustible Dust Directive has upped the…
After a secrecy squabble within the Obama administration—and criticism from a key Democratic senator—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revealed the locations of 44 "high-hazard" utility coal ash ponds that…
More than three-fifths of the value of emission allowances that House-approved climate change legislation would give to electric and natural gas utilities to soften the impact of higher energy prices…
The U.S. should dramatically expand the scale and scope for utility-scale commercial viability demonstrations of retrofitting or rebuilding existing coal plants with carbon-capture technology—and support aggressive research on reducing the…
Shielding customers from the true costs of controlling carbon dioxide (CO2) for the next two decades will make the whole effort more expensive in the long run. A transitional period…
During the past several months, following the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's) ash and scrubber sludge spill in Tennessee, the public and media have used this incident to engage with elected…
The 2009 Powder River Basin Users’ Group (PRBCUG) hosted more than 340 registered members for the three-and-a-half-day 2009 Annual Meeting; 165 attendees were from operating companies. The meeting’s Grand Sponsor…