The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday on a lawsuit filed against both the former and current owners of the Homer City Generating Station, a 2 GW coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.

Fuel Tech Inc. received two domestic air pollution control contracts for $10.5 million.

The Nebraska Electric Generation and Transmission Co-op Inc. is asking Nebraska Public Power District to eliminate proposed investments in wind energy, emissions controls and energy efficiency programs.

The Tennessee Valley Authority will be offering retirement incentives to workers at the agency’s 11 coal plants in an effort to cut some of the 2,400 jobs in its coal division.

Fuel Tech Inc. received three air pollution control contracts for three projects in China.

Wisconsin Power & Light Co. said it received oral approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to install additional emission control technology at Unit 5 of the Edgewater Generating Station in Wisconsin for $410 million.

CB&I was contracted for $300 million to execute an air quality control program for 13 coal-fired units at five sites, or about 9,000 MW of generating capacity.

The U.S. Department of Energy is withholding records related to the carbon capture project at the Two Elk power plant in Wyoming because of a pending legal investigation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin settled with Wisconsin Power and Light Co. (WPL) to reduce emissions from three coal-fired power plants in the state.

NAES Corp. has announced it has been selected to install a new dry sorbent injection (DSI) system and an activated carbon injection (ACI) system at a coal-fired generating station owned by a cooperative located in the Midwest.

Westar Energy has filed a request with the Kansas Corporation Commission for a $31.7 million rate increase, which would increase electricity rates by about 1.7 percent. The increase is to cover additional costs to upgrade one of the company’s coal-fired power plants.

SPX Corp said it’s joint venture with Shanghai Electric Group Co. Ltd. received $80 million in new orders for dry cooling systems for four power plants in China.

GE introduced a bi-component felt media for construction of fabric filters used in coal-fired boiler baghouses, which provides an alternative to the usual polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) felt used in these applications.

Fuel Tech Inc. received $4.3 million worth of air pollution control orders.

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is moving forward with a $1 billion project to install additional environmental controls at the Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn.

Dominion Energy, a subsidiary of Dominion, reached a $13.2 million settlement with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve Clean Air Act violations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it has finalized the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for new coal- and oil-fired power plants.

Owners of coal-fired power plants invested more than $30 billion in flue gas desulfurization systems, also known as scrubbers, between 2007 and 2011.

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved the use of regenerative activated coke technology, or ReACT, at a coal-fired power plant near Wausau, Wisc.