A survey conducted by the KPMG Global Energy Institute shows that a majority of energy executives believe the U.S. can reach energy independence by 2030.

The Weekly Coal Production shows how much coal is being produced across the U.S.

The Associated Press reported a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that emissions from power companies contributed to global warming and intensified Hurricane Katrina.

The US Senate voted 97 to 0 to confirm Ernest Moniz to head up the Department of Energy Thursday afternoon.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit filed against both the former and current owners of the Homer City Generating Station, a 2 GW coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.

Two men in a 32-foot wooden lobster boat named the Henry David T. blockaded a shipment of coal from a Massachusetts power plant Wednesday as a protest against coal-fired power generation.

NRG Energy settled a 2007 lawsuit with the states of New Jersey and Connecticut that will result in the early shut down of two coal-fired units at a plant in Pennsylvania.

Fires were reported in two separate power plants Tuesday, with incidents in both Wyoming and Michigan.

The Nebraska Electric Generation and Transmission Co-op Inc. is asking Nebraska Public Power District to eliminate proposed investments in wind energy, emissions controls and energy efficiency programs.

The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is planning to seek bids from developers for 250 MW of solar power.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will be offering retirement incentives to workers at the agency’s 11 coal plants in an effort to cut some of the 2,400 jobs in its coal division.

The FBI was called to the Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station in Bridgeport Harbor, Conn. after a radio-controlled airplane equipped with a camera crashed near the plant.

A report released Monday by the EIA shows that energy-related carbon dioxide decreased in 32 states.

AES Corp. said two units expect to retire or repower coal-fired units in Indiana and Ohio, and build a natural gas-fired power plant.

Power Engineering magazine and RenewableEnergyWorld.com announce that nominations are now open for the 2013 Projects of the Year awards!

The Salt River Project, owners and operators of the Navajo Generating Station, have told the Navajo Nation changes the tribe made to the lease extension for the Arizona coal-fired power plant are unacceptable.

TransAlta Corp. continues to work with the original equipment manufacturer to safely return its Keephills Unit 1 power plant to service.

Utility leaders say they expect state or federal officials to take action on carbon regulations in the next eight years, and that grid reliability is still a major concern.

Fuel Tech Inc. received three air pollution control contracts for three projects in China.

The decommissioning of the coal-fired Mohave Generating Station will be completed with a final walk-through of the property scheduled this week.

Construction is complete and testing is entering the home stretch on the 618-MW Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) Edwardsport integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) project in Indiana.

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works announced Thursday it will hold a meeting May 9 to vote on advancing Gina McCarthy’s nomination as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A generator explosion last month at Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen was caused by worker error and not equipment failure.

Last month’s electricity demand was the lowest monthly demand seen in the U.S. for the past three years, according to a report released Thursday by Genscape.

Wisconsin Power & Light Co. said it received oral approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to install additional emission control technology at Unit 5 of the Edgewater Generating Station in Wisconsin for $410 million.

CB&I was contracted for $300 million to execute an air quality control program for 13 coal-fired units at five sites, or about 9,000 MW of generating capacity.

After hours of contentious debate and more than a dozen amendments, the Navajo Nation approved the lease for the 2,250 MW coal-fired Navajo Generating Station from 2019 to 2044.

Power4Georgians, a consortium of electric membership cooperatives sponsoring the 850 MW coal-fired Plant Washington power plant in Georgia, announced Monday they would be restructuring and would not hold an ownership stake in the plant.

The U.S. Department of Energy is withholding records related to the carbon capture project at the Two Elk power plant in Wyoming because of a pending legal investigation.

Overland Contracting Inc. (OCI) was selected by Celanese Corp. to replace its coal-fired boilers with natural gas-fired boilers at a plant in Virginia.

Mississippi Power asked state regulators for an additional $600 million to build the Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant, bringing the cost up to $3.42 billion.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will take comments on a range of options to help reduce mercury, arsenic, lead and selenium released into waterways by power plants, including through coal ash and air emissions control waste.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts existing coal-fired power plants will regain some of the power generation market share lost to natural gas over the past few years as natural gas prices increase.

Consumers Energy's president confirmed his company's decision to shut down the 320 MW coal-fired B.C. Cobb Generating Plant.

Duke Energy has released its most recent sustainability report, which lists a goal of increasing the company’s renewable portfolio and reaching 6,000 MW of wind, solar and biomass power capacity by 2020 among its other goals.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin settled with Wisconsin Power and Light Co. (WPL) to reduce emissions from three coal-fired power plants in the state.

Top officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) gathered Thursday for a meeting described by local media as “tense” amid the revelation that the federal government is considering privatizing the storied utility.

A coalition of states and other government entities, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, has sent of a letter of intent to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to finalize the New Source Performance Standard for new power plants.

The cost of complying with tougher Environmental Protection Agency air-quality standards could spur an increased shift away from coal and toward natural gas for electricity generation.

Energy Future Holdings, a Dallas-based power company, is considering a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to restructure $32 billion in debt.

Today in New Delhi the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed the latest figures from its annual report on global progress towards a low-carbon future.

A Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ratepayer advocate said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to stop using coal-fired energy in the city could come with a price tag of more than half a billion dollars.

The Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, a Dominion-owned power plant that can burn both coal and biomass, is offline for a scheduled maintenance period.

Republican lawmakers are attacking the idea, suggested in President Obama’s FY2014 budget, to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority.

NAES Corp. has announced it has been selected to install a new dry sorbent injection (DSI) system and an activated carbon injection (ACI) system at a coal-fired generating station owned by a cooperative located in the Midwest.

Westar Energy has filed a request with the Kansas Corporation Commission for a $31.7 million rate increase, which would increase electricity rates by about 1.7 percent. The increase is to cover additional costs to upgrade one of the company’s coal-fired power plants.

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions increased 4.0 percent in fiscal 2011 from a year earlier, totaling the equivalent of 1,308 million tons of carbon dioxide, the Environment Ministry said in a revised report released April 12.

Xcel Energy is proposing adding up to three 215 MW natural gas-fired peaking units to help meet power generation needs during times of high electricity demand.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreased 1.6 percent in 2011 from the previous year, according to the EPA’s 18^th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory.