PPL Corporation says that its response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s information request for the Company’s Montour and Brunner Island plants is on hold pending further discussions between the Company and the EPA.
The EPA has reinitiated its New Source…
PPL Corporation’s affiliate, PPL Montana, LLC, is involved in environmental matters and litigation involving the Colstrip plant.
In May 2003, about 50 plaintiffs brought an action against PPL Montana and the other owners of the Colstrip plant alleging property damage from…
PPL Corporation’s subsidiary, PPL Energy Supply, LLC, through Sept. 30, 2009, has spent US$28 million for remediation and related costs.
In August 2005, there was a release of about 100 million gallons of water containing fly ash from a disposal basin…
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…
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…
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…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s claim on alleged breaches by PPL Corporation at the Keystone plant is ongoing.
In January 2009, the Company received a notice of violation from the EPA for projects undertaken at the Keystone plant at which the…
PPL Corporation’s affiliate, PPL Montana, LLC, is a defendant in a lawsuit filed in the Montana Sixteenth Judicial District Court, in which the suit alleges property damage from seepage from the freshwater and wastewater ponds at the Colstrip plant.
In May…
Certain of PPL Corporation’s electric generators are subject to New Source Review (NSR) requirements under the Clean Air Act.
In 1999, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated enforcement actions against several electric generators, asserting that older, coal-fired power plants operated by…
PPL Corporation, in January 2009, received a notice of violation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for projects undertaken at the Keystone plant at which the Company is part owner.
The EPA alleges that the projects were undertaken without proper New…