Utilities with coal-fired power plants will soon have to comply with the new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) regulation, which focuses on mercury and other hazardous pollutants.

Entergy Corp. (NYSE: ETR) appointed Jeff S. Forbes  as executive vice president, nuclear operations and chief nuclear officer at Entergy Nuclear effective Jan 2.Forbes will be replacing John Herron, who has spent 33 years in the nuclear industry and announced his retirement effective March 31.

Novinda Corp., located at booth No. 3965, announced that its Amended Silicates, a reagent for the removal of mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, was named a 2012 Product of the Year.

About 50 miles northeast of Louisville, Ky., in a rural district on about 2,200 acres along the banks of the Ohio River is the Trimble County power station.

A study from Duke University said it found high levels of arsenic and other toxins in lakes and rivers downstream from Duke Energy coal-fired power plants’ coal ash ponds in North Carolina.

GE Global Research signed a contract with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to build a multi-point sensing system to monitor carbon dioxide injected into geothermal containment wells

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a team led by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne $1 million to evaluate pressurized oxy-combustion in a fluidized bed reactor to feasibly capture greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants.

With the issuance of the Mercury Air Toxics Standards (MATS) in December 2011, the U.S. EPA has succeeded in passing lasting federal guidelines for mercury air emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Recently enacted Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) will require many coal-fired power generating utilities to significantly reduce their emissions of mercury and other emissions.

The Archer Daniels Midland Co. marked the progress made on construction of the storage facility for the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage project in Decatur, Ill.

The carbon capture and storage project at the 2,657 MW Barry coal-fired power plant in Alabama is now injecting carbon dioxide underground, making it one of the world’s first large-scale coal-fired CO2 capture facilities.

Prior to the start of COAL-GEN Conference and Exhibition, about 20 conference attendees visited Eco Power Solutions’ Technology Center in Louisville, Ky. on Aug. 14.

Mercury-specific control technologies include Activated Carbon Injection (ACI), halogen addition, and various co-benefit methods of control, such as particulate matter (PM) controls, dry sorbent injection (DSI), and dry and wet scrubbers. A few of the many available solutions on the market are mentioned here.

A study has found that waves off the coast of Brazil can potentially generate 87 GW of electricity.

Health Canada has launched a study with Statistics Canada to explore the effects of wind turbines on the health of those living nearby.

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

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced the release of a proposed rule to require companies to publicly disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations on public and Indian lands, with appropriate protections for proprietary information.

Southern California Edison and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego said they will collaborate on a project to gather seismic data off the coast near the two-unit, 2,200 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

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.