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Minnesota Power Settlement to Reduce Emissions

July 21, 2014July 18, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

In a settlement with the US, Minnesota Power, an Allete company based in Duluth, has agreed to pay about $5.6 million, install pollution control technology and meet stringent emission rates to reduce air pollution from the company’s three coal-fired power plants located in Cohasset, Hoyt Lakes and Schroeder, Minn. The ... Read more »

World’s Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project Begins Construction

July 17, 2014July 17, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Department of Energy, in partnership with NRG Energy and JX Nippon, has begun construction on the first commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture retrofit project in the US, the largest such project in the world. Once completed, the Petra Nova Project will capture about 1.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide ... Read more »

URS Technology Reduces Coal-Fired Plants’ Carbon Emissions

June 20, 2014June 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

URS’ process can improve the energy efficiency of coal-fired power plants by 1 to 3 percent, with a corresponding reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, the company says. The process, based on SBS Injection (sodium-based solution) technology, enables power plants to realize operational cost savings by burning less coal. It also ... Read more »

TVA Plans Significant Cut in Carbon Emissions

June 19, 2014January 20, 2016 by Ken Jennison

The Tennessee Valley Authority says by 2020 it will cut carbon emissions amounting to half of what they were at their peak in 1995, in response to proposed new guidelines released by the EPA. The Clean Power Plan, released by the EPA on June 2, would carbon emissions by 30 ... Read more »

LCA Shows Greener Choice for Mercury Removal

May 5, 2014May 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A lifecycle assessment of Novinda’s Amended Silicates HgX (AS-HgX), a non-carbon product for removing mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants, shows the product’s greenhouse emissions were one-tenth of those associated with powdered activated carbon (PAC) products. The company says this GHG performance delivers a potential reduction in ... Read more »

Technology Aims to Halve Coal Emissions

April 28, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and its industry partners plan to conduct a trial of the Direct Injection Carbon Engine (pictured) intended to reduce emissions from brown coal-generated electricity by 50 percent compared to current technology. Industry partners include Exergen, Ignite Energy Resources, AGL , MAN Diesel & Turbo and ... Read more »

Texas Carbon Capture Plant Breaks Ground

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Skyonic has started construction on the Capitol SkyMine plant (pictured), a commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant, in San Antonio, Texas, Clean Edge reports. The clean-tech news site says Capitol SkyMine will be first such plant built to commercial scale in the US. Located onsite at the Capitol Aggregates Cement ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Tax, Transportation Deal, Exxon $1bn Penalty Reversal

February 27, 2013June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

EU lawmakers backed a Commission plan to suspend for a year a law that would make all airlines using EU airports pay for their carbon emissions. The committee said that the suspension could be prolonged beyond a year, but only if clear and sufficient progress were made at the International ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: XP Sues DOE, Coal-Free Ontario, TX-NM Water Fight

January 14, 2013June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Electric car start-up XP Vehicles and its sister company Limnia sued the Energy Department saying the agency awarded money to politically favored firms and shunned other firms. The companies also say they have evidence suggesting that the DOE improperly shared its patented technology with competing companies that won federal funding, ... Read more »

Coal Plants Drag Heels on Emissions Cuts

January 4, 2013November 13, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Emissions increased or showed little change at seven of the 10 worst mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants in 2011, compared to 2010, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project. The seven plants are owned by Luminant Generation, Southern Company, Great River Energy, Grand River Dam Authority and DTE Energy. But ... Read more »

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