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Since 1960, a 70-acre complex of ponds outside the Philip Sporn power plant has been used to store millions of tons of damp coal ash removed from its largest boiler.

The Ohio Consumer's Counsel has filed a new appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court attempting to stop American Electric Power from collecting on fees generated from a rate plan increase the advocate group calls "unlawful." The filing follows an Oct.

CONESVILLE - A more than $450 million investment in new pollution control equipment that became operational this year has added about 30 years to the life expectancy of the American Electric Power Conesville Generating Station.

Washington, November 6, 2009 - Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with nearly $6 trillion in annual revenues and more than 12 million employees, announced on November 5 that ABB Inc.

Federal and state government officials today joined executives from American Electric Power and Alstom at AEP's Mountaineer Plant to formally commission the world's first project to both capture and store carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant.

Allegheny Energy Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!aye /quotes/nls/aye said Thursday third-quarter net income fell to $77 million, or 45 cents a share, from $89 million, or 52 cents a share in the year-ago period.

Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline -- is a joint project of Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power to move electricity on 765,000-volt above-ground transmission lines from the coal-fired plant in Amos, W.Va., to an as-yet-unbuilt substation near New Market, Md., 275 miles and three states away.

American Electric Power is creating a new company to handle the interstate transmission of power, a task previously handled at the state level.

MORGAN CITY - The owner of Evangeline Downs race track casino has closed a $106.8 million deal to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino near Morgan City.

American Electric Power has set its ongoing earnings guidance range and capital expenditures budget for 2010.

Power has been restored for 1,300 American Electric Power customers after an outage caused by a tractor-trailer striking a utility pole on the South Side.

As part of an ongoing comprehensive review of dam integrity of coal ash impoundment sites nationwide, EPA has alerted West Virginia public officials and first responders that an impoundment at American Electric Power's Philip Sporn facility requires additional safety testing.

FREMONT -- The Sandusky County Economic Development Corporation received $2,500 from American Electric Power-Ohio Foundation.

Greenhouse gas control equipment being tested for the first time on a West Virginia power plant is "game-changing technology" that is needed if the coal industry is to survive action to curb global warming, the president of American Electric Power said Thursday.

The agency has a November 2011 deadline to set emission standards. A settlement agreement requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants puts the agency on a very tight timeline.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it is requiring American Electric Power to conduct safety tests on waste impoundments at a West Virginia coal-burning plant to ensure their structural stability.

American Electric Power and Alstom Power are now running a first of its kind carbon sequestration project at AEP's Mountaineer Power Plant in Mason County.

Federal regulators say American Electric Power Co. must conduct additional testing to examine the safety of two coal-ash impoundments at AEP's Philip Sporn Power Plant in Mason County.

Officials with American Electric Power say there is no reason to delay or refile an application for the proposed Potomac-Appalachian Highline Transmission or PATH project, a 756 kilovolt power line that could one day run from Putnam County to Maryland.