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.

Power plant owners, operators and technical personnel continue to be faced with increasingly stringent restrictions regarding the quantity and quality of plant wastewater streams.

LPP Combustion LLC announced it has received its first commercial order for an LPP Skid from World Wide Water Solutions LLC.

GE is installing its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment system at two 758 MW combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plants in Texas.

GE Mobile Water has been providing guaranteed water treatment solutions for several types of applications, including emergency outages or equipment failures, planned outages and plant start-ups.

Aecom Technology Corp. said that a joint venture it is part of was awarded a five-year, $109 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to perform base operations support at the Rock Island Arsenal as well as six other locations in Illinois and Iowa.

Tetra Tech Inc. was awarded a five year, $108 million contract to provide technical support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, Nancy K. Stoner, signed a proposed regulation to establish requirements for cooling water intake structures at existing power facilities on May 31, and EPA is submitting it for publication in the federal register.

Enercon has received two patents for a filter medium for strainers used in nuclear reactor Emergency Core Cooling Systems (ECCS).

Enviance, Inc. has released a report from this week’s EUEC 2012 conference revealing that more than 60 percent of attendees believe carbon pricing will affect their businesses this year. The survey was completed by 237 North American energy and utility industry professionals.

Officials with the state of Ohio ordered injection wells shut down after several minor earthquakes occurred on Dec. 24 and Dec. 25.

As power plant designs have evolved over the past 50 years, top boiler pressure i.e. superheated high pressure turbine inlet conditions, has increased dramatically.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it will develop standards for wastewater discharges from natural gas extraction from underground coalbeds by 2013 and shale formations by 2014.

Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said radioactive water may now be leaking from a wastewater storage facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Ameresco Inc. and City of Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) completed a 4.3 MW biogas energy recovery facility.

American Electric Power chose GE’s ABMET wastewater bioreactor system at AEP’s 1,300 MW Mountaineer coal-fired power plant in West Virginia.

A water treatment system that can turn wastewater into clean water has been shown to reduce potential environmental impacts associated with producing natural gas from shale formations in the U.S. Appalachian basin.

GE will install its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater recycling technology at the 600 MW Russell City Energy Center (RCEC).

EPA said safeguards against fish and aquatic animal impingement will be required for all facilities above a minimum size. It said closed-cycle cooling systems may also be required when appropriate. A final rule is due in July 2012.