A senior coal company executive on Wednesday lambasted U.S. lawmakers for proposing caps on emissions blamed for global warming, saying the Democrats were out to destroy America’s coal industry.
Robert Murray, chairman, president and chief executive of Murray Energy Corp., also blasted the federal government’s mine safety agency for “outrageous” new fines that he warned could [...]
Environmentalists who sued Duke Energy Corp. over upgrades at its coal-fired plants say a proposed EPA rule undermines their U.S. Supreme Court victory and would give utilities a free hand to pollute.
At issue is how the government measures air pollution from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other sources.
Environmentalists say the pollution should be [...]
TXU Corp. received permission Wednesday to move forward with plans to construct a coal-fired power plant in Central Texas. The plant is one of three that the company’s prospective new owners still plan to build.
A federal judge in Austin approved a settlement Wednesday among TXU, the Justice Department and Alcoa Inc. that allows TXU to [...]
A compromise by Florida that led to the opening of a large chunk of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling draws keen interest from Big Oil, but criticism from other sectors.
Under a new law that opens 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore drilling, four coastal states — Louisiana, [...]
PHILADELPHIA - Hundreds of millions of tons of waste coal are lying around the mines of Pennsylvania and nearby states, and that gets John Rich excited.
Rich is president of WMPI, in Gilberton, northeastern Pennsylvania, where he is setting up the first plant in the United States to turn waste coal into diesel fuel.
“This will help [...]
Four members of a national conservation group touring Florida today to showcase gas-saving vehicles unfortunately had to use petroleum gas exclusively to run their biofuel-burning Chevrolet because ethanol fuel is not yet available here.
“The trick is you only have one pump in the whole state of Florida, unlike in the Midwest, where there are hundreds [...]
Inside two half-million-gallon tanks built in the 1950s, a team of microorganisms is preparing to munch its way into the annals of energy innovation.
Late this month, the microbes will start transforming truckloads of restaurant grease into electricity for a water pollution control plant in Millbrae, Calif. The one-of-a-kind setup relieves the city and area eateries [...]
U.S. states’ plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could lead to little change in national carbon output, simply pushing coal-fired power plants and other dirty industries to relocate in states without rules, experts said on Thursday.
California reached a deal Wednesday to cut emissions of gases scientists believe are causing climate change. The plan, which would [...]
Environmentalists attacked Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez for backing a plan to open more of the Gulf of Mexico to drilling.
Environmentalists Tuesday stepped up criticism of a Senate measure to open the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, running radio spots and newspaper ads that blast Florida’s Sen. Mel Martinez for signing off on [...]
