BUSINESS
June 11, 1990 | MICHAEL PARRISH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
During the next decade, electricity demand around the ever-brightening Pacific Rim will likely quadruple the capacity of Asian coal-fired power plants, opening an enormous potential market for U.S. coal. With it could come a big market for environmentally advanced clean-burning technology, if U.S. firms can stay in the competition. Now, U.S.
BUSINESS
November 17, 1987 | David Olmos, Times Staff Writer
A subsidiary of Irvine-based Ultrasystems has been awarded a $10-million contract to design and build a coal terminal in Wasco. The terminal will service three coal-fired power plants in Bakersfield. The contract was awarded by Savage Coal Service, Salt Lake City, to Ultrasystems Western Contractors.
WORLD
November 14, 2008 | TIMES WIRE REPORTS
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies over vast areas of Asia and in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns and threatening health and food supplies, the United Nations reported. The so-called atmospheric brown clouds are a mix of particles, ozone and other chemicals that come from cars, coal-fired power plants, burning fields and wood-burning stoves and fireplaces. A report commissioned by the U.N. Environment Program said the clouds dim light by as much as 25% in some cities, including Karachi, Pakistan; New Delhi; Shanghai; and Beijing.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 19, 2011 | By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
The chairman of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental groups, has stepped down amid discontent that the group founded by 19th century wilderness evangelist John Muir has strayed from its core principles. The departure of Carl Pope, 66, a member of the club for more than 40 years, comes as the nonprofit group faces declining membership, internal dissent, well-organized opponents, a weak economy and forces in Congress trying to take the teeth out of environmental regulations.
BUSINESS
February 5, 2008 | From Reuters
Three Wall Street banks said Monday that they would set standards for factoring in environmental risks posed by carbon emissions when lending to companies that seek to build coal-fired power plants. Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley will form "The Carbon Principles," climate-change guidelines for advisors and lenders to power companies in the U.S.
BUSINESS
September 28, 1989 | JONATHAN WEBER, Times Staff Writer
In a venture expected to generate $1 billion in sales in three to five years, Fluor Corp. announced Wednesday that it is joining with a North Carolina utility to build coal-fired power plants. Fluor Daniel Corp., the chief operating affiliate of the Irvine-based heavy engineering and construction firm, said it has formed an equal joint venture with Duke Power Co. of Charlotte, N.C., to design and build coal plants for public utilities and other customers.