MORGANTOWN – FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison are asking the state Public Service Commission for more time to consider their possible purchase of the coal-fired Pleasants Power Station and closure of Fort Martin. “Due to the potential closure of Pleasants by June ...
MORGANTOWN — WVU professor Jamie Van Nostrand has been appointed to the chair of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Utilities Commission, which oversees the Department of Public Utilities. DPU oversees investor-owned electric power, natural gas, and water companies in Massachusetts; ...
MORGANTOWN — The U.S. EPA's Good Neighbor Plan released this week requires power plants in 22 states to further reduce emissions by 2027, and EPA projects the plan could lead to retirement of 13% of current national coal-fired generating capacity. The new rule will have a bearing on Mon ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito talked with members of the West Virginia press on Thursday, covering the Biden budget, carbon sequestration, the Pleasants Power Station and Medicare. President Biden has proposed a $6.9 trillion budget paid for, in part, by $5.5 trillion in tax ...
MORGANTOWN — A Morgantown company has been awarded a $1.27 million federal contract to plug an abandoned gas well at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, along with two abandoned wells at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Peninsula, Ohio. Sen. Joe Manchin announced the contract ...
MORGANTOWN — While the Biden administration has openly expressed support for curbing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon capture and sequestration projects, many believe Biden's EPA is dragging its feet in enabling that to happen. On Tuesday, the West Virginia Manufacturers ...
