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While billions of dollars are being invested in promoting clean energy, coal is still the reliable workhorse of power generation worldwide. Coal gassification or carbon capture technologies may ...

Illinois Power Co., the state`s second-largest electric utility, has signed a letter of intent to buy scrubbers for two of its three 560-megawatt boilers at the Baldwin plant near St. Louis. The move ...

When American Electric Power installed a pollution scrubber at its Cardinal plant along the Ohio River in 2007, it was supposed to last 25 years. That might not happen. About a year later, an ...