New York and 15 other states on Tuesday urged federal regulators to put teeth into a proposed pollution rule aimed at making U.S. electric utilities reduce smog and global warming emissions when they expand or modernize their coal-fired power plants.
“Pollution from coal-burning power plants and other facilities cause real problems throughout the United States [...]

Synthesis Energy Systems Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (”SES” or the “Company”) (OTC: SYMX), a coal gasification company involved in the conversion of low cost fuels into clean energy and chemical products, and Inner Mongolia Golden Concord (Xilinhot) Energy Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Golden Concord Holdings Ltd. (”Golden Concord”), a [...]

State regulators on Tuesday signed off on plans to build one of the nation’s first plants that would turn dirty coal into cleaner fuel, generating electricity while dramatically reducing smog and mercury pollution.
If built amid cornfields outside Taylorville, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, the 630-megawatt plant would provide a lucrative boost to the state’s [...]

China, keen to ease its dependence of coal and oil to feed its booming economy, has tapped a potential new fuel source — “flammable ice”, state media said on Wednesday.
Stable only at low temperatures or under high pressure, flammable gas, or gas hydrates, are extremely fragile and mainly exist either in the seafloor or below [...]

State regulators have ruled against Florida Power & Light Co., rejecting the company’s bid to build a clean coal power plant in Glades County.
Juno Beach-based FP&L said it is deeply disappointed in the four voting members of the Florida Public Service Commission’s unanimous decision on Tuesday.
For the last several years, the company said it has [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy said a prototype coal dryer project at an Underwood, N.D., power plant is so successful it’s being expanded.
Department officials said the technology at the Great River Energy Co.’s Coal Creek Station has proven so successful the power company intends not only to install full-size dryers on the station’s Unit [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to not only revive its traditional copper sector, but diversify by exploiting potentially huge iron ore and bauxite deposits, Mining Minister Martin Kabwelulu said on Monday.
“Diversification of production is a key strategy,” he told a base-metals conference in Namibia.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was once one of [...]

A new proposal to drill for coal-bed methane north of Glacier National Park has Montana officials looking for a permanent solution to energy development issues in southeastern British Columbia.
“We’re tired of fighting this project after project after project,” said Rich Moy, water management chief with Montana’s Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. “What we need [...]

A proposed coal-fired power plant for the east side of Waterloo continues to move forward.
Thursday LS Power submitted a draft air quality permit with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
What that means is an engineer with the DNR will look over the application and make sure LS Power is on the right track. If [...]

Opening arguments are expected today in a lawsuit that pits a steel maker against West Virginia’s largest coal company.
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation is suing a subsidiary of Richmond, Virginia-based Massey Energy for failure to deliver coal to the steel producer’s coking operation in Follansbee.
Wheeling-Pitt sued Central West Virginia Energy Company in April 2005 claiming the company [...]