The state is diverging from the national trend.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and DuPont partnered to generate power and steam at TVA's Johnsonville site in Humphreys County, Tenn. The two companies recently agreed on a plan to convert an existing, limited-use combustion turbine at Johnsonville into a highly efficient combined heat and power, or CHP, plant. With TVA retiring the last four coal-fired units at Johnsonville by the end of 2017 under its clean-air agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency, a new steam source had to be found.
Many in business back EPA, but the new Congress has yet to weigh in.
Regulatory and environmental challenges for power plant conversions under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
The Best Way to Comply with EPA’s Clean Power Plan
The Clean Power Plan's largest obstacle is how its cost is distributed disproportionately among the states.
A strategy for completely removing mercury from environmental emissions.
Minnesota Power, a utility division of ALLETE, reached a settlement agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that resolves alleged violations of the new source review provisions of the Clean Air Act. The agreement does not include any admission of wrongdoing on the part of the company Minnesota Power is one of many utility companies in the U.S. whose investments in electric generation facilities were reviewed as part of the EPA's Coal-Fired Power Plant Enforcement Initiative that began in 1999.
Prevent problems, or wait and respond when something happens?
How EPA can establish a U.S. GHG Program for the Electricity Sector.