Coal
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Minnesota lawmakers who make up the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board today gave their blessing to a plan to restructure a $9.15 million loan with troubled Excelsior Energy.
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Kyle Thacker's bloodline in the underground coal mines of Eastern Kentucky goes back decades.
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Patriot Coal and UMWA is Classic Dispute that Cuts Deep
Most Americans realize that coal companies have been contesting the decisions of federal regulatory agencies. But many do not see the infighting that has occurred between mining executives and their labor unions, which have a long and painful history that centers on working conditions and job security.
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Environmentalists are questioning Florida's latest plans to comply with federal clean-air requirements without mandating that two of its heaviest-polluting coal-fired power plants meet the stricter pollution limits.
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Southern Co., the Atlanta-based energy giant known for being well-run and financially robust, has been wrestling with an unusual number of high-profile setbacks lately.
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Residents near a coal ash dump in Fayette County describe a neighborhood where birds die after drinking from puddles, puppies have birth defects, people are sick and gray dust covers everything.
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Patriot Coal and the United Mine Workers of America appear to be ready to resume negotiations, after they broke off talks and traded barbs earlier this week.
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Andrew Bennett sees NRG Energy's plan to convert its Dunkirk power plant from coal to natural gas as a big boost for the Chautauqua County economy.
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Every two years, Puget Sound Energy -- the largest western Washington utility with 1 million electric customers and 760,000 natural gas customers -- submits an Integrated Resources Plan to the Washington State Utilities Commission.
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As part of its commitment to changing Florida's energy future, Florida Power & Light Company today announced that the four red-and-white-striped, 350-foot-tall stacks and 7,500-ton boilers at its 1960s-era Port Everglades Power Plant in Hollywood, Fla., will be demolished on July 16, 2013, to make way for a new, high-efficiency, clean power plant.
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The United Mine Workers of America said Patriot Coal Corp. walked out of negotiations over wage and benefit concessions Tuesday and cancelled talks set for later this week.
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Because of difficult and persisting coal market conditions, officials for two Arch Coal mining complexes announced the need to further scale back production and personnel.
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A bill to clarify the oversight of coal ash is dusting itself off now that a compromise bill has cleared a key congressional House panel. The measure would give the states control over regulating the coal combustion byproduct but would do so with input from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Duke Energy's Edwardsport Generating Station has begun commercial operation. Located in Knox County, Ind., near Vincennes, the 618-megawatt advanced technology coal gasification plant is one of the world's cleanest coal-fired power generating facilities.
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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) today announced that it is initiating a new business of owning, leasing and acquiring natural resource reserves within its Terminals business segment to pursue non-operating investments in coal and other mineral reserve properties and infrastructure.
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A divergent picture of coal is emerging. One is relaying the cold hard market-oriented facts and is pointing out that coal-dependent regions need to diversify their economies now. The other is saying that coal can reinvent itself, and it is arguing that mining companies have been making imprudent business decisions.
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Economics and Politics
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News of the European Union and its troubles with the program there to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions is spreading around the globe. What will happen and how might that experience affect California and New England, where similar efforts are underway?
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The future of coal generation is about two months away. That’s when Duke Energy will fire up its 618-megawatt coal gasification plant in Indiana, which can also run on natural gas. While the project has endured cost overruns and heavy criticism, the company says that it will be clean, efficient -- and well worth it.
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The damaging effects that result from burning coal may soon be nonexistent. It took scientists from Ohio State University 15 years and $5 million, but the clean coal technique has finally been developed. They have discovered a way to obtain the energy from coal without actually burning it, eliminating nearly all of the pollution.
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