This August, Peabody Energy’s 1,600-MW Prairie State Energy Campus project in Illinois won a major federal appeals court decision, removing the last obstacle to groundbreaking. The six-year regulatory review process…
Environmental
Legal and technical aspects of power plant environmental monitoring and control; regulatory issues
Burning Powder River Basin (PRB) coal can be a curse or a blessing, depending on your attention to the details of plant design and operations. One disadvantage of PRB coal…
Lansing Board of Water & Light (LBW&L), which has generated electricity since 1892 and steam since 1919 in mid-Michigan, primarily serves the city of Lansing’s business district and all state…
In Part I of this two-part report ( COAL POWER, July/August 2007, p. 22), we introduced the integrated R&D effort by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory…
Federal and state limits on emissions of mercury (Hg) from power plants typically require periodic or continuous measurement of Hg levels by approved reference methods (RMs) and continuous emission monitoring…
Under the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in March 2005, the estimated 48 tons of mercury (Hg) emitted annually by coal-fired power stations…
In January and February, members of the U.S. Congress introduced with great fanfare a dozen comprehensive carbon cap-and-trade bills that compete with each other to impose the most stringent standards…
Even if you've never been in the market for a scrubber, you don't have to face management and vendors as a greenhorn. Thanks to the EUCG, you can enter meetings…
Congress's enactment of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) triggered a revolution in the development and construction of power plants. PURPA's creation of an independent class of…
Scientific debate on the validity of global warming science continues, but the issue has yet had little impact on individuals. That impact is being negotiated in Washington, where a regulatory…