KENTUCKY PERMIT RULING HANDS ACTIVISTS ANOTHER BLOW IN BID FOR IGCC

Kentucky's recent ruling rejecting calls by environmentalists to require owners of a planned coal-fired utility to consider clean-burning integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology is another blow to activists' efforts to require new plants to use IGCC, rather than traditional pulverized coal technology. The state's Environmental & Public Protection Cabinet Secretary LaJuana S. Wilcher April 12 rejected an August 2005 recommendation by a state hearing officer that Kentucky's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) should be required to consider IGCC in...