Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy underscored the agency's collaboration with the energy sector as it develops environmental rules in her keynote address at IHS CERAweek in Houston on…
Environmental
Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
President Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal on Mar. 4. In it, tax subsidies for fossil fuel companies were under the knife, as was the Environmental Protection Agency’s…
Conventional wisdom suggests that coal-fired power plants employing selective catalytic reduction and a wet scrubber can comply with Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). Long-term testing at Southern Co. demonstrates…
As environmental regulations tighten—both in the U.S. and around the world—coal-fired power plants continue to look for ways to operate economically. Though reuse and sale of coal combustion by-products has…
The ways of Washington are murky and slow, but once the Environmental Protection Agency finally finalizes its rules on coal combustion residuals, you’ll have to move fast to comply, so…
The aftermath of two spills from a coal ash storage pond at Duke Energy’s Dan River Steam Station in North Carolina this month, which saw about 35,000 tons of ash…
In a surprising deal, the developer of a proposed $1 billion natural gas–fired power plant in Salem, Mass., has agreed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the new facility…
A plan developed by Oklahoma to address regional haze that was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week will force Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO) to shutter…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking comment on its interpretation of provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005), which it claims do not alter the agency's…
What's the utility of the future going to look like within two or three decades? That was a question put to former Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, Great Plains CEO…