PPL Corporation estimates that its share of the capital cost to achieve mercury requirements compliance at its Montana units would be about US$140 million.
Montana has finalized mercury emission rules that require, by 2010, every coal-fired generating plant in that state…
It is anticipated that Xcel Energy Inc. will file a petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc in Hurricane Katrina-related litigation styled Comer vs. Xcel Energy Inc. et al.
In April 2006, the Company received notice of a purported class action…
The San Diego Air Pollution Control District’s case against Calpine Corporation unit, Otay Mesa Energy Center, LLC (OMEC), over the failure to install an auxiliary boiler required by the permit issued by the San Diego Air Pollution Control District was…
PPL Corporation estimates that the aggregate capital cost of mercury requirements compliance would be about US$530 million, according to the Company’s latest quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
To meet Pennsylvania’s 2015 mercury requirements, if the rule is…
Federal-Mogul Corporation recorded a US$12.4 million net recovery during the three months ended Sept. 30, 2009, which resulted from settlements with insurers reached by the Company in an environmental lawsuit filed in Ohio.
The Company has commenced a lawsuit in Ohio…
Calpine Corporation continues to be involved in environmental- related litigation styled Pit River Tribe, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al.
On June 17, 2002, the Pit River Tribe filed suit against the BLM and other federal agencies in…
Xcel Energy Inc.’s subsidiary, Northern States Power Company (NSP- Wisconsin) recorded a liability of US$97.5 million for a manufactured gas plant site (MGP) in Ashland, Wis.
NSP-Wisconsin has been named a potentially responsible party (PRP) for creosote and coal tar contamination…
PPL Corporation’s affiliate, PPL Energy Supply, LLC, at Sept. 30, 2009, had accrued a discounted liability of US$25 million to cover the costs of pumping and treating groundwater at the two mine sites for 50 years and for operating and…
DTE Energy Company accrued US$37 million for remediation of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites of its Gas Utility segment as of Sept. 30, 2009, compared with US$38 million as of Dec. 31, 2008.
Prior to the construction of major interstate natural…
NiSource Inc.’s subsidiary, Northern Indiana Public Service Company, is a potentially responsible party under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and similar state laws at two waste disposal sites.
Northern Indiana also shares in the cost of their…