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CT, NJ Settlement To Shut Down Coal Units At PA Plant
The Hartford CourantTwo coal-burning units at an eastern Pennsylvania power plant are shutting down as a result of a lawsuit filed by Connecticut and New Jersey to enforce the federal Clean Air Act. The owners of the plant — NRG Energy and GenOn, which combined last...Tags: NRG Energy Incorporated, Environmental Politics, Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Portland power plant owners settle pollution lawsuit
The owner of a power plant in Upper Mount Bethel Township has agreed to stop burning coal as part of a settlement in a lawsuit by two downwind states over air pollution. NRG Energy, which acquired the Portland Generating Station last year in a merger...
Tags: Reliant Energy Inc, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Historic Bethlehem office to become residences
Bethlehem's Dodson building, once an office of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., will become a 21-unit apartment project topped with a penthouse suite under a $4 million redevelopment plan unveiled Wednesday. The five-story building at 528 N. New St....
Tags: Human Interest, Radio Industry, Lobbying, John Callahan, Bethlehem Steel
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PBS Coals begins new mine project
RoxCoal, a subsidiary of PBS Coals, Friedens, has started the long process of site preparation to open a new underground mine. The A Seam Mine is located near the intersection of the Garrett Shortcut and Mud Pike in Brothersvalley and Black townships....
Tags: Friedens
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Energy Resources, Ecosystems, Barack Obama
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Plans shelved for coal export terminal in Oregon
SEATTLE — The battle over plans for a series of massive coal export terminals across the Pacific Northwest took a new turn Wednesday when the energy company Kinder Morgan announced it was dropping its plan to build a $200-million facility on the...
Tags: Lobbying, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Mining, Kinder Morgan Incorporated
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Lamb of God takes away the cares of the world
The first domesticated lamb turned over coals in Mesopotamia, literally the land "between rivers," some 10,000 years or so ago. But the lamb I'll be roasting in my backyard on this Orthodox Easter Sunday — also on a spit, over coals — is one...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Easter, Christian Orthodoxy, Hypothermia
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Indiana coal-gas bill stalls C02 pipeline project
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Legislation state lawmakers passed last week that the developers of a proposed Indiana coal-gasification plant say effectively kills their project also has dealt a blow to a Texas company's plans for a pipeline that would carry...Tags: Justice System, Ohio River, Crime, Law and Justice, Vectren Corp., Environmental Issues
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Wyoming on track to mine 10 billionth ton of coal
CASPER, Wyo. - Wyoming is on track to mine its 10 billionth ton of coal this month. That's according to a calculation by the Wyoming State Geological Survey released this week. It's based on production records going back to 1865, when Wyoming was still...
Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Politics
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New fiber line to help local businesses
Businesses in Somerset County that send and receive large data files now have another Internet option thanks to a partnership between PBS Coals and Comcast. Comcast Business, a division of Comcast Cable, reports that Frieden’s-based PBS Coals is...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Computer Networking and Internet, Science and Technology, PBS (tv network), Friedens
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Letters: When coal and ranching collide
Re "Ranchers drawing a line in the coal," April 27 With ranchers in southern Montana possibly having their land divided by rail lines to deliver coal to Asia — disrupting their cattle operations and polluting their water — it does seem...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Agriculture
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In Montana, ranchers line up against coal
COLSTRIP, Mont. — Out in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer ran into problems at Little Bighorn, a new battle is unfolding over what future energy development in the West will...
Tags: Travel, Railway Transportation, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Mining
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