The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected objections raised by General Electric Co. to a final cleanup plan, issued in February, for toxics in the Housatonic River in New England.
Commercial operation of the long-shuttered second unit at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar nuclear plant in Tennessee got underway earlier this month, the first U.S. nuke reactor to start up since 1996, when a sister 1,150-unit came on line.
Utility Southern Co.’s costly effort to produce clean energy from coal met a major milestone on Oct. 12, when its Kemper County, Miss., integrated gasification combined-cycle plant produced the first kilowatt of electricity with synthetic fuel made from local lignite.
A U.S. appellate court ruling last month is forcing a lower court to review its earlier support of Jersey City, N.J.’s project labor agreement (PLA) requirements.
As the U.S. power industry evolves toward cleaner energy sources, the construction industry is following the trend by diversifying into new markets and, in some cases, getting out of traditional ones.
Despite adversaries’ strong opposition to a proposed 600-mile mid-Atlantic natural-gas pipeline on environmental, eminent domain and conflict-of-interest grounds, project developers late last month hired a four-firm team to build the estimated $5-billion project.
Three executives of contractor LPCiminelli Inc., three New York power and commercial developers and a former SUNY president are among nine charged in a 79-page US criminal complaint alleging bribery, bid-rigging and influence-peddling on state-funded projects.
The Tennessee Valley Authority said it is pleased with the response to its request for bids to buy the partially completed Bellefonte nuclear-power site in Alabama.