Month: August 2012

Edison International raised the possibility that its Edison Mission Energy independent power subsidiary may have to seek bankruptcy, mainly due to problems related to costs of coal-fired capacity in Illinois and Pennsylvania. […]

Buckeye Florida Limited Partnership on July 23 petitioned the Florida Public Service Commission for certification as a Qualifying Facility of its newly-upgraded steam plant. […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be taking public comment until Sept. 10 on an application by East Kentucky Power Cooperative for a permit on a coal waste landfill at the J.K. Smith power plant. […]

The U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency have worked out a settlement with Shenango Inc. to resolve Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act complaints related to Shenango’s coal-consuming metallurgical coke plant. […]

The North Carolina Utilities Commission, feeling burned by changes it wasn’t warned about in the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy, said Aug. 1 that it has retained the law firm of Jenner & Block as outside counsel to assist in its investigation of the matter. […]

Metinvest BV, which owns Central Appalachia coal producer United Coal, said Aug. 1 that its total productiion of coking coal increased by 626,000 tonnes (+11.4%) year-on-year for the first six months of 2012 and amounted to 6.1 million tonnes. […]

The bankruptcy court for Patriot Coal issued a pair of Aug. 1 orders that granted Patriot various forms of relief, including termination of a number of mining equipment leases and a contract to buy coal from JMAC Leasing. […]

A July 30 ruling by the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board backed the Sierra Club’s challenge to a permit for the New Hill West surface mine of Patriot Mining, a unit of Arch Coal. […]