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Power Engineering |View online| June 30, 2015|Forward to a Friend New Webcast: Coal Ash Management & Storage New standards for managing and storing CCRs were finalized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in December. How will these regulations affect the ways companies handle coal ash using wet and/or dry systems? What technologies, processes, and strategies will prove most useful in complying with the new mandates? Register Now for the webcast on June 30. Read More Share: Video Highlights European regulators clear Siemens' buyout of Dresser-Rand Wind energy capacity installations to grow 9% in 2015 Westinghouse, European partners to supply nuclear fuel Virginia OKs $2.5M coal ash spill settlement with Duke View Now Share:   Top Stories Court rules against limits on mercury emissions A divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled against federal regulators' attempts to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. Read More Share: European regulators clear Siemens' buyout of Dresser-Rand European regulators have cleared Siemens' (NYSE: SI) $7.6 billion acquisition of the U.S. oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand (NYSE: DRC). Read More Share: Germany's oldest remaining nuclear plant shuts down Germany's oldest remaining nuclear reactor has been shut down, part of a move initiated four years ago to switch off all its nuclear plants by the end of 2022. Read More Share: Wind energy capacity installations to grow 9% in 2015, report says Wind energy capacity installations are expected to increase just under 9 percent in 2015, according to a new report from Navigant Research. Read More Share:   Industry News Virginia OKs $2.5M coal ash spill settlement with Duke Virginia agreed Thursday to a $2.5 million settlement with Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) for a February 2014 spill of coal ash in North Carolina that floated down the Dan River, depositing tons of the toxic stew into the city of Danville's waterfront and beyond. Read More Share: an electric power plant Alabama Power reaches coal-fired power plant emissions control settlement The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice lodged a proposed modification with Alabama Power to further reduce coal-fired power plant emissions. Read More Share: Wyoming carbon-capture lab planning moves ahead Officials are studying researcher's requirements as they deliberate where a laboratory to test out carbon-capture technology at a Wyoming coal-fired power plant should be located. Read More Share: Critics: Dominion Virginia jumping gun on coal ash cleanup Environmental and water protection groups say Dominion Virginia Power is jumping the gun on the closure of coal ash impoundments at a northern Virginia power plant and they're asking state and federal regulators to step in. Read More Share: More Headlines • Turkey nuclear power project granted preliminary license • New Mexico coal plant owners settle Clean Air Act violations • Indiana will defy Obama on climate change plan • Canadian gov’t chooses alliance to run & decommission nuclear labs • Empire set to increase utility rates for Missouri customers • House votes to block Obama's climate plan amid veto threat • Michigan utilities work to comply with air pollution rule • Proposed Md. smog regulations get an airing at hearing • SunEdison purchases wind power portfolio from TerraForm Power