Energy and Environment
February 15, 2010 -
Alabama Attorney General Troy King (R) has joined with industrial interests to take TVA's side in the company's appeal of a U.S. District Court decision ordering four TVA plants -- one in Alabama and three in neighboring Tennessee -- to curb their air emissions.
February 12, 2010 -
U.S. unemployment rate in January 2010: 9.7%
February 11, 2010 -
Progress Energy is facing a lawsuit over its requirement that customers pay in advance for a planned new nuclear plant on Florida' s Gulf Coast. The suit was filed on behalf of the nonprofit group Citizens for Ratepayer Rights.
February 9, 2010 -
The U.S.
February 3, 2010 -
Duke Energy's permits to release pollution from three coal-burning power plants in the Charlotte area expire early this year, and for the first time the North Carolina Division of Water Quality will require the company to test groundwater near the facilities' coal ash ponds.
February 2, 2010 -
The landfill in Perry County, Ala. that has been taking coal ash spilled from the failed waste pond at Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant has declared bankruptcy -- a move that leaves a planned lawsuit to halt the dumping up in the air.