Western Resource Advocates is asking that the Utah Public Service Commission review or rehear a May 10 approval for PacifiCorp to install new selective catalytic reduction NOx controls on the coal-fired Jim Bridger Units 3 and 4 in Wyoming.
Eastman Chemical intends to convert the coal-fired boiler at its Indian Orchard, Mass., site to natural gas combustion by January 2016, which is the latest in a series of coal-to-gas switches for the company.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., on June 18 released a new Congressional Research Service analysis of coal ash legislation that is being considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a notice to be published in the June 19 Federal Register that it will hold local public hearings near the Navajo Generating Station to take input on a regional haze plan for the coal-fired plant.
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division went out for comment on June 17 on a regional haze compliance plan for three coal- and gas-fired units at a Jefferson County plant of Colorado Energy Nations Co., an affiliate of GDF Suez.
Wyoming Gov. Matthew Mead sent a June 13 letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requesting that the agency allow the necessary time for discussions regarding Wyoming’s regional haze state implementation plan.
The Sierra Club and Earthjustice said June 13 that they have asked the state of Florida to significantly strengthen its NAAQS plan to address SO2 coming from the Lansing Smith coal units of Gulf Power and two Crystal River coal units owned by Duke Energy.
Gulf Power applied June 10 at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for an air permit approval to test various sorbents at the coal-fired Lansing Smith Units 1 and 2.
The Mingo Logan Coal unit of Arch Coal on June 7 filed its motion for a hearing before the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over a vetoed Clean Water Act permit for its 2,278-acre Spruce No. 1 strip mine in Logan County, W.Va.
Earthjustice said that due to an appeal to a state board that it brought last year, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has updated Title V air permits for coal plants across the state.