Coal

Coal power plant design, construction, operation and maintenance, as well as legal and regulatory issues.

Legal Deadline Set for EPA’s Coal Ash Rule
Legal Deadline Set for EPA’s Coal Ash Rule

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must issue a proposed revision of its Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D rules regulating coal combustion residuals no later than Dec. 19, 2014,…



Idling of Two Coal-Fired Plants Will Cost Jobs
Idling of Two Coal-Fired Plants Will Cost Jobs

Big Rivers Electric Corp.—a member-owned, not-for-profit, generation and transmission cooperative serving western Kentucky—plans to idle two of its coal-fired power plants following the loss of its largest industrial load. The…


The Coal to Gas Exodus Continues
The Coal to Gas Exodus Continues

Alabama Power Co., a subsidiary of Southern Co., has applied for air permits that would authorize the company to retrofit four coal-fired electric generating units, enabling them to add the…