SaskPower and Hitachi Ltd. said March 20 they are partnering to construct a $60 million carbon capture test facility (CCTF) at SaskPower's single-unit, 276 MW Shand Power Station in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Ohio State University and Southern Co. have signed a collaborative testing agreement to demonstrate the high-pressure syngas-to-hydrogen chemical looping process.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its non-cancer science assessment for dioxins, which was last reviewed in the 1980s.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy picked four projects aimed at reducing the energy and cost penalties of advanced carbon capture systems applied to power plants for further development.

Wood Group GTS signed a six-year, $15 million contract with PlusPetrol Energy S.A to provide maintenance services for two General Electric Frame 9E DLN-1 gas turbines at a power plant in Argentina.

Natural gas extracted from shale formations has a greater greenhouse gas footprint in the form of methane emissions than conventional gas, oil and coal over a 20-year period, Cornell University researchers report.

Total U.S. human-caused greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 were 5.8 percent below 2008 levels, the largest drop since 1990 when emissions were first tracked.

Louisville Gas and Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Co. selected Black & Veatch’s PowerPlantMD solution to enhance operations of its fleet of coal-fired power generating stations in Kentucky.

The 908 MW Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio returned to service on June 29 following a scheduled refueling outage that began in February.