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The $1.1 billion cost of selling a coal-fired power plant from one FirstEnergy subsidiary to another is "a reasonable price for protection" against the more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market to meet demand in West Virginia, a utility executive said Monday.

Opposition is mounting to Mon Power's proposed purchase of a coal-fired power plant in north-central West Virginia - a deal critics say is overvalued and would unfairly raise rates.

The future of natural gas powered vehicles is the focus of this week's inaugural Appalachian Basin NGV Expo and Conference.

Source: www.news9.com --- Saturday, May 11, 2013Postal workers, Devon Energy and the Regional Food Bank are teaming up to help fight hunger across Oklahoma.

'Safety first and power later' is a fact that has been reinforced by the Supreme Court when giving a green signal to the continuation of the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu 'Safety first and power later' is a fact that has been reinforced by the Supreme Court when giving a green signal to the continuation of the ... (more)

Donald Blankenship is the most powerful coal mogul in America, but he could soon be indicted, thanks to 14 years of work by two Pittsburgh lawyers.

During a March trip to Argonne Labs, one of the government's premier research sites, President Barack Obama challenged Congress to help him 'break th[e] cycle of spiking gas prices' and 'shift our cars and trucks off of oil' by creating a new Energy Security Trust.

Colin Jones with Carolina Green Energy Systems attaches a “duct blaster” to the air intake at a James Island home to test for leaks.

"When you stand there and listen to these miners tell their stories, you can't help but feel moved," the Wheeling native said.

Boeing's South Carolina manufacturing complex has won its first airplane work that isn't for the 787 Dreamliner.

This is at least the fourth lawsuit filed in recent months over high levels of arsenic that are discharging from the ash ponds into surrounding groundwater.

From left: Tom Heywood is on the Clay Center board; Becky Ceperley is CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation; Judy Wellington is president and CEO of the Clay Center; and Kyle Mork is an executive at Energy Corporation of America, which has its own philanthropic foundation.

Combined heat and power systems that produce electricity through a process called cogeneration are a great potential market for natural gas producers, but experts say outdated policies and anti-competitive regulations are hindering potential growth.

On April 22, 2013, Earth Day, the city of New York and Nissan USA launched a project called the Taxi of Tomorrow with six electric zero emission Nissan LEAF taxi cabs in Manhattan.

The state is hoping to solve the chicken-or-egg problem for natural gas as a fuel by converting a portion of the state's fleet to compressed natural gas as fueling stations are built.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., receives the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Spirit of Enterprise Award during a Monday meeting at West Virginia Chamber headquarters in Charleston.

Don Blankenship, the chairman of Massey Energy, drove Hugh Caperton's Harman Mine into bankruptcy in 1998.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia Federal prosecutors want a judge to continue delaying a lawsuit by investors who say Massey Energy lied about its safety record to inflate stock prices before the Upper Big Branch mine disaster.