Duke Energy Corporation estimates that it will spend about US$365 million over the period 2009-2013 to install synthetic caps and liners at existing and new Coal Combustion Product (CCP) landfills and to convert some of its CCP handling systems from…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s probe on Duke Energy Corporation and its subsidiaries’ Miami Fort and W.C. Beckjord stations in Ohio is ongoing.
On July 31, 2009, the EPA served a request for information under section 114 of the Clean Air…
Duke Energy Corporation says that trial in the case filed by Sierra Club against the Company’s subsidiary, Duke Energy Indiana, Inc., over the Edwardsport generating station in Knox County, Ind., is set to commence in January 2011.
On April 3, 2008,…
No trial date has been set in the U.S. Government’s lawsuit, filed in 2000, against Duke Energy Corporation in the U.S. District Court in Greensboro, N.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims that 29 projects performed at 25 of the Company’s…
Duke Energy Corporation says that plaintiffs’ appeal over the dismissal of litigation involving carbon dioxide (CO2) is pending.
In July 2004, the states of Connecticut, New York, California, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin and the City of New York…
Duke Energy Corporation had total accruals related to extended environmental-related activities of about US$65 million as of June 30, 2009 and US$55 million as of Dec. 31, 2008.
These accruals represent the Company’s provisions for costs associated with remediation activities at…
Duke Energy Corporation is still involved in environmental litigation filed by an Inupiat village in Alaska, in a case involving carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
On Feb. 26, 2008, plaintiffs filed suit against Peabody Coal and various oil and power company defendants,…
Three of Duke Energy Corporation’s subsidiaries (Duke Energy of Ohio, Inc. and Duke Energy of Indiana, Inc., and Cinergy Corp.) are still parties to environmental litigation at the U.S. Federal District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
In November 1999,…
Duke Energy Corporation plans to spend about US$120 million between 2009 and 2013 (about US$85 million in Ohio and US$35 million in Indiana) to comply with Phase 1 of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized…
Duke Energy Corporation reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will not develop emission standards for utility units under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, thus abiding by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia’s (D.C.…