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.

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS), a subsidiary of Integrys Energy Group, has filed for a Certificate of Authority from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to install the first U.S. commercial application of Regenerative Activated Coke Technology (ReACT) at its 321 MW Weston 3 plant.

Kincaid Generation LLC, a subsidiary of Dominion Resources Inc (NYSE: D), awarded the KBR Power & Industrial Group a contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for a dry sorbent injection (DSI) system to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at its 1,158 MW Kincaid coal-fired power plant in Illinois.

PMFG Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide two SCR systems for nitrogen oxide (NO_x) emissions control and oxidation catalysts for carbon monoxide/volatile organic compounds emissions control for a new, natural-gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in the northeastern U.S.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants.

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.

Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (PSO), a unit of American Electric Power, has entered into an agreement in principle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Oklahoma and the Sierra Club that establishes a framework for PSO to comply with EPA regulations affecting the company’s two coal-fired units at its Northeastern Station in Oologah, Okla.

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.

Covanta Energy Corp., a global owner and operator of energy-from-waste projects, has announced the completion of commercial demonstration testing of a gasification technology.

Air Liquide was chosen to supply and build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system at a 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Queensland, Australia.

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. (B&W PGG), has been awarded a contract to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) environmental control systems for three units at Ascend Performance Materials' Decatur, Ala. manufacturing plant.

Alstom has announced the award of a $95 million contract to supply its NID Dry Flue Gas Desulphurization (DFGD) Systems for two 660 MW coal-fired units at the Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County, Penn.

Helmkamp Construction Co. has completed the installation of 14 CyClean Refined Coal Facilities for Clean Coal Solutions at power plants in 10 states.

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.

Public Service of New Hampshire said in a report that the installation of a wet flue gas desulfurization (wet FGD), or scrubber, at the Merrimack coal-fired power plant has reduced mercury and sulfur dioxide emissions by up to 98 percent.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc. was awarded a $30 million contract to design and supply a selective catalytic reduction system for Xcel Energy’s Pawnee coal-fired power plant in Colorado.

Hitachi Power Systems America Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi America Ltd., signed a license agreement with Solios Environment Inc. to design and supply Enhanced All-Dry (EAD) Scrubber technology.

Black & Veatch has been selected to engineer, procure and construct air quality control retrofits to the Columbia Energy Center, co-owned and operated by Wisconsin Power and Light Co.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved the installation of emissions controls at Edison Mission Energy’s 1,884 MW Homer City coal-fired power plant.