SCANA Corporation’s subsidiary, Public Service Company of North Carolina, Incorporated (PSNC Energy), recorded an environmental liability and associated regulatory asset of US$4.4 million, which reflects its estimated remaining liability at June 30, 2009.
PSNC Energy is responsible for environmental clean-up at…
SCANA Corporation expects to incur capital expenditures totaling US$559 million through 2010, on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), for scrubber projects at various sites.
The EPA issued a final rule in 2005 known as the CAIR,…
SCANA Corporation’s subsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), at June 30, 2009, recorded US$19.7 million for deferred remediation amounts, net of amounts previously recovered through rates and insurance settlements.
SCE&G is responsible for four decommissioned manufactured gas plant (MGP)…
ONEOK, Inc.’s affiliate, ONEOK Hydrocarbon Southwest, L.L.C. (OHSL), continues to communicate with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) staff on resolving emission matters at the Mont Belvieu fractionator.
Personnel of OHSL, a subsidiary of ONEOK Partners, L.P., are in discussions…
Valero Energy Corporation, on July 28, 2009, paid a mitigation fee of US$1,319,505 requested by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) for the Company’s Wilmington Refinery.
On June 26, 2009, the SCAQMD issued a Request for Flare Minimization Plan…
Integrys Energy Group, Inc.’s subsidiary, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, continues to face demands and lawsuits from owners of manufactured gas plant sites in the City of Chicago and others.
These demands assert standing regarding the investigation or remediation…
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…
Valero Energy Corporation says that, on July 9, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a demand for a US$1,017,500 stipulated penalty under a Section 114 Consent Decree for an acid gas flaring incident in September 2008 at the Paulsboro…
Valero Energy Corporation says that its continues settlement discussions on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) claim on violations at the Company’s Corpus Christi West Refinery.
In the second quarter of 2009, the TCEQ issued a notice of enforcement (NOE)…
Valero Energy Corporation, in the second quarter of 2009, settled the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (LARWQCB) complaint on violations at the Company’s Wilmington Marine Terminal.
In December 2007, as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit…