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Duke Energy Responds to Coal Ash Basin Closure Rankings, Calls for Legislative Change

May 25, 2016

Duke Energy has issued the following statement in response to ash basin closure rankings announced by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) on May 18. Today’s announcement is an important milestone in the development of long-term closure solutions

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Highlands Natural Resources Expands Uranium Footprint in Utah

May 25, 2016

Highlands Natural Resources Plc has further expanded its footprint, with a deal to acquire additional mining claims in Utah. The company previously encountered evidence of uranium in its existing Utah acreage through the analysis of well logs, and it has

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W. Va. Senator Manchin Sets the Record Straight on Coal

May 25, 2016

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) today released the following statement to set the record straight against false, out-of-state attacks on his commitment to protecting and defending coal miners and the coal industry in West Virginia. “From my first day in

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Wabash Valley Power Acquires Peabody’s Stake in Prairie State Energy Campus for $57 Million, Ill.

May 24, 2016

Peabody Energy has completed the sale of its 5.06 percent participation interest in the Prairie State Energy Campus to the Wabash Valley Power Association for $57 million. Peabody expects to use the transaction proceeds for general corporate purposes. Prairie State

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Sienna Resources Acquires Clayton Valley Deep Basin Lithium Brine Project, Nevada

May 24, 2016

Sienna Resources Inc. has acquired the Clayton Valley Deep Basin Lithium Brine Project.  The project is located directly between and bordering Pure Energy Minerals Limited and Lithium X Energy Corp. The Clayton Valley Deep Basin Lithium Brine Project is located

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Dominion Diamond Receives Environmental Assessment Approval for Jay Project, Canada

May 24, 2016

Dominion Diamond Corporation has received environmental assessment approval for the Jay Project. Dominion will file water license and land use permit applications shortly, beginning the final step in the environmental approval of the project. “This is an important milestone for

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Wyoming Delegation Introduces Legislation to Give States More Say in Energy Development

May 24, 2016

U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, John Barrasso and U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., have helped introduce bicameral legislation to protect coal jobs from the Obama administration’s recent moratorium on new federal coal leases. The legislation would help ensure that states

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Emerson Helps Longview Power Plant Become One of Cleanest, Most Efficient Coal-Fired Units, W. Va.

May 24, 2016

Longview Power’s rehabilitation of its 700-megawatt power plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, has transformed an operation previously beset by frequent outages and poor performance into one of the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired plants in the United States. Emerson contributed to

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Prosecutor Accuses Federal Government, Colorado of Making Little Progress on Mine Spill Cleanup

May 24, 2016

The Federal government and Colorado have made little progress in remedying damage from the release of millions of gallons of wastewater from a southern Colorado mine last year, New Mexico’s top prosecutor charged in a pair of scathing letters sent

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Hundreds of Utah Coal Miners Speak Out on Proposed Reform

May 24, 2016

Frustrated coal miners, coal company executives and truckers who haul coal swamped a daylong public meeting Thursday on proposed reforms to the federal coal lease program, urging a three-year moratorium on new coal leases be overturned and reform efforts dropped.

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