Pennsylvania

The U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) bank has given XCoal Energy & Resources, a coal-exporting firm, a $90 million loan guarantee.  The decision has drawn the ire of environmentalists across the country.

Methane gas has bubbled up at three residential water wells and two streams in Bradford Country, Pennsylvania.

Battery developer Aquion Energy will build its first full-scale manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania the company has announced.

FirstEnergy Corp. shares rose nearly 2% in midday trading Thursday after the company said it will shut down six coal-fired power plants by September 1, 2012.

BP plc and Sempra Energy have announced plans to make a combined investment of $1 billion dollars to develop two wind farms.

Exelon Corporation has announced that its power plant operations subsidiary Exelon Power has brought a wind farm online in Michigan.

Japan-based Mitsui & Co., Ltd (MITSY.PK), one of the largest global “sogo shoshas (general trading companies)” in the world, has bought a $12-million stake in Tres Amigas, a continental grid interconnection which eventually aims to tie together the nation’s three major electricity networks, the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. It will do this while simultaneously integrating a wide array of renewable energy sources like solar and wind. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants - the first standard of its kind in the nation's history.

Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) have introduced legislation aimed at extending the Production Tax Credit, or PTC. 

On October 30, 2011, Beacon Power Corp. (NCM: BCON) filed a voluntary petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware seeking relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.