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By Jeanne Roberts on June 21, 2010
Tags: Massey Energy, Progress Energy, Siemens AG, Xcel Energy, United States, Appalachia, cadmium, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, coal, coal mining, electricity, fossil fuel, hydrocarbons, lead, Marcellus Shale, natural gas, nitrogen oxides, particulates, Progress Energy, Siemens, sulfur dioxide, Union of Concerned Scientists, uranium, VOC, volatile organic compounds, Waxman-Markey, Xcel Energy, electricity, energy, Finance, Minnesota, Randy Zwirn, Virginia
For a decade, increasingly strict environmental regulations surrounding coal-fired power plants, and the threat of carbon taxes still to come, have signaled the potential end of an energy paradigm that first took root in the United States in the
By Alison Pruitt on September 2, 2009
Tags: FirstEnergy, Ohio Edison Company, biofuel, biomass, carbon dioxide, coal, coal power plant, emissions, FirstEnergy, nitrogen oxide, NYSE:FE, Ohio, Ohio Edison Company, retrofit, sulfur dioxide, waste-based biofuel, wood-based biofuel, Cynthia Giles, Department of Justice, electricity, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Finance, John C. Cruden, Ohio
Under a recent federal court agreement, an Ohio utility will convert a large coal-fired power plant into one using primarily renewable biomass fuels, making it the largest such plant to do so.
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