Minnesota Power has announced plans to upgrade Boswell Energy Center Unit 4 in Cohasset, Minn. with emissions controls that will reduce its mercury emissions by 90 percent.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada), has been awarded a $25 million contract from SaskPower to design and retrofit SaskPower’s 300 MW Shand coal-fired power plant in Saskatchewan.

TransAlta Corp. said it has abandoned plans to build the $1.4 billion Project Pioneer carbon capture and storage facility at an Alberta coal-fired power plant.

PacifiCorp, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway's MidAmerican Energy Holdings, said upgrading its coal fleet in order to comply with future federal and state environmental requirements may cost $1 billion.

PPL Montana sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on April 23 to prevent the agency from releasing data to two environmental groups about upgrades made to PPL’s 2,000 MW Colstrip coal-fired power plant.

Fuel Tech Inc., a supplier of engineering solutions for combustion and emissions control systems, received $2 million in orders to supply air pollution control systems in China.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc., has been selected as the environmental control technology provider for several of Luminant's coal-fired power plants.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. has been awarded a contract to design and supply two spray dry absorber units and associated equipment for a coal-fired power plant in Colorado.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co. Inc. (BWCC) has been awarded a contract worth more than $75 million to provide construction services for the installation of environmental equipment at Northern Indiana Public Service Co.'s (NIPSCO) coal-fired R.M. Schahfer Generating Station.

Kentucky Power Co, an operating unit of American Electric Power, has announced plans to invest approximately $940 million in its 800 MW Big Sandy Power Plant near Louisa, Ky., to meet regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Xcel Energy is postponing a planned $600 million conversion of its Black Dog Power Plant to natural gas at least until 2014.

Fluor Corp. said that it was awarded a multi-year special projects supplement to their existing contract to provide construction and other support services for Luminant's environmental retrofit program.

A bluff collapsed near the construction site of We Energies’ 615 MW Oak Creek coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin on Oct. 31.

Colorado Springs Utilities signed a $73.5 million contract with Neumann Systems Group Inc. to install a 220 MW flue gas desulfurization system at CSU’s 254 MW Martin Drake coal-fired power plant.

Metso Corp. has been selected to help Xcel Energy modernize its three-unit, 2,400 MW coal-fired Sherburne County Generating Plant in Minnesota.

Alstom has been awarded a contract worth $150 million over the next several years by American Electric Power to upgrade the low pressure (LP) steam turbines across their 1,300 MW coal-fired power plant fleet.

Texas power generator Luminant filed a legal challenge against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency saying that EPA’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule would cost the company 500 jobs and 1,300 MW of generating capacity, about 9 percent of its total capacity.

Dominion Virginia Power plans to use biomass-, natural gas- and coal-fired units converted to natural gas to meet expected growing demand over the next 15 years.