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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: MATS Technical Review, EU ETS, Chevron Spill
Here’s the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes eight items. The EPA is reviewing technical information on...
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Coal Plants Drag Heels on Emissions Cuts
Emissions increased or showed little change at seven of the 10 worst mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants in 2011, compared to 2010, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project....
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EPA Finalizes Power Plant Pollution Standards
The EPA has finalized pollution limits for new power plants, setting emissions limits for mercury and toxic air pollutants like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium and cyanide. The Mercury and Air...
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Novinda Introduces Enhanced Non-Carbon Reagent for Mercury Capture
Novinda, which makes non-carbon mercury removal products, has announced the next-generation of its reagent for mercury emissions capture. The company says its Amended Silicates HgX provides better...
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FirstEnergy Closing Coal Plants, But Obama Not to Blame
Two Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants would have to close regardless of new environmental regulations, owner FirstEnergy said. The Hatfield’s Ferry and Mitchell plants, whose combined 2,080 MW...
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URS Technology Demonstrates 85% Mercury Removal for Coal-Fired Power Plants
URS says full-scale testing of its emissions control technology at a Midwestern power plant has demonstrated greater than 85 percent mercury (Hg) removal and greater than 98 percent sulfur trioxide...
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Judges Tussle with EPA Air Pollution Rules
Supreme Court justices seem sympathetic to the EPA’s arguments in the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule case, which the court heard yesterday. Most of the eight judges hearing the case voiced some support...
View ArticleIntel: McCarthy ‘Understands Industry Needs’
Executives from Intel, the American Sustainable Business Council and biofuel trade association Growth Energy say Gina McCarthy will protect the environment and grow American jobs if appointed to head...
View ArticleJames River Coal Files Ch.11; Blames Regulations, Nat Gas
Mining company James River Coal has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and weak economic conditions, the AP reports. The...
View ArticleLCA Shows Greener Choice for Mercury Removal
A lifecycle assessment of Novinda’s Amended Silicates HgX (AS-HgX), a non-carbon product for removing mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants, shows the product’s greenhouse emissions were...
View ArticleCabot, Westmoreland Expand Activated Carbon Capacity
Cabot Corporation and Westmoreland Coal say they plan to increase activated carbon manufacturing capacity in North America, doubling the capacity of their Bienfait, Saskatchewan manufacturing facility...
View ArticleAmetek Land Monitor Helps Power Plants Meet Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
Ametek Land has launched the 4650-PM Continuous Dust Monitor to help US power plants meet the EPA’s new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for particulate matter measurement. The EPA’s new MATS...
View ArticleADA Expands SO2 Emissions Control Product Lines
ADA-ES, an Advanced Emissions Solutions company, has signed a definitive agreement to license ClearChem Technology, a patented furnace sorbent injection technology to control sulfur dioxide emissions...
View ArticleURS Technology Improves MATS Compliance
URS has introduced a mercury control technology, HBS Injection, to help US power plants comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard regulation issued by the EPA. Recent full-scale testing of the...
View ArticleAre Mercury Rules a Toxic Double Standard?
New EPA rules aimed at curbing mercury emissions, which mainly affect coal-fired electrical generating plants, are based on bad science, write Willis Eschenbach and Jane M. Orient, MD, in the summer...
View ArticleSupreme Court Strikes Down Mercury Pollution Rule
The US Supreme Court struck down the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the agency failed to take into account the costs the rule would...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Power Plant Mercury Pollution Rule
A federal appeals court has upheld the the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, despite a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the rule, saying the...
View ArticleMATS Compliance Help for Power Plant Operators
Late last year a federal appeals court upheld the EPA’s first-ever national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. To help power plant operators comply with the Mercury and Air...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Air Pollution Rule
Chief Justice John Roberts today denied an attempt to block, or “stay,” a contentious air pollution rule for power plants. Roberts’s order represents a big win for the Obama administration’s climate...
View ArticleSupreme Court’s Mercury Decision Spells Further Trouble for Coal
For the second time in just a few weeks, the coal-consuming-and-producing states have tried for a Hail Mary — to get the US Supreme Court to delay the implementation of EPA rules. This time: the...
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