A judge has refused to stop construction of a crude-oil pipeline that would be built by TransCanada Corp. through eastern North Dakota, saying state regulators took adequate safety precautions in deciding its route.
North Dakota’s Public Service Commission did a thorough factual and legal review of its order allowing construction of the Keystone pipeline, district [...]
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 [...]
A judge closed the case against five mine managers and inspectors accused of negligent homicide in an explosion last year that killed 65 coal miners in northern Mexico.
Coahuila state Judge Sergio Tamez said Tuesday that the mine operator, Industrial Minera Mexico, paid compensation of about $18,000 per victim, allowing the managers and inspectors to clear [...]
Environmentalists had hoped that if a new coal-fired power plant like the one proposed near Waterloo had to be built in Iowa it would at least be required to get some of its energy from renewable sources.
But an Iowa House committee has scrapped the idea after concerns about the cost to the industry.
A measure killed [...]
LOGAN - The city’s utility chief is recommending a long-term contract for coal-fired power from a central Utah plant.
Other communities, especially in California, are backing out, searching instead for electricity made from a cleaner source. But the director of Logan City Power and Light said his utility needs power and could [...]
National Coal Corp. announced that it has signed definitive subscription agreements to sell three million shares of its common stock at the February 28, 2007 closing consolidated bid price of $4.65 per share. Daniel Roling, President and CEO of National Coal, has agreed to purchase 200,000 shares, and two institutional investors have agreed to purchase [...]
Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state’s future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.
More than 15 proposals were filed with the Public Utilities Commission to [...]
Energy companies are scrambling for drilling rights in north-central Alabama, where geologists have discovered a natural gas formation with the potential to rival any in the country.
Drillers have bought gas rights on 500,000 acres in and around St. Clair County during the past two years, paying up to $500 an acre plus a share of [...]
Energy companies are scrambling for drilling rights in north-central Alabama, where geologists have discovered a natural gas formation with the potential to rival any in the country.
Drillers have bought gas rights on 500,000 acres in and around St. Clair County during the past two years, paying up to $500 an acre plus a share of [...]
Texas’ largest Baptist group is taking a rare step into environmental advocacy, working to block Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed the approval process for 18 new coal-fired power plants.
The Christian Life Commission, the public policy arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, is mobilizing Baptists against the coal-fired plants and urging the convention’s [...]
