A new report prepared by the U.S. Government Accountability Office reveals that older generating units produce a disproportionate amount of emissions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public hearings on the proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants.

Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 17 wrote a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson seeking more information about EPA’s plans to regulate carbon emissions for new and existing power plants.

The PJM Interconnection Board May 17 approved nearly $2 billion in electric transmission upgrades that will maintain electric power supplies in the wake of plans to retire 14,000 MW of coal-fired generation between May 2012 and the end of 2015.

In its budget requests for 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it wants a funding increase to investigate hydraulic fracturing technologies.

In a study commissioned by the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), economists at The Brattle Group evaluated the feasibility of complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule.

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.

Hoosier Energy plans to retire its 250 MW Ratts coal-fired power plant in Indiana in 2015.

A new report by Bloomberg Government says that gas-fired generation will likely become the dominant form of power generation over time in light of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) new standards for greenhouse gases