By Sue Loughlin, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind. Jul.

By JOE KILLIAN GREENSBORO -- Results of the first round of tests at Barber Park were released Tuesday, showing high levels of toxins in the soil and groundwater but low levels of heavy metals.

By Tom Fowler, Houston Chronicle Jun. 14--Houston-based Tondu Corp. is backing away from plans to build a 600-megawatt power plant in Corpus Christi, saying costs for the coal gasification technology it planned to use were too high.

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). At the turn of the millennium, development of coal-fired generation in the U.S. was limited to a few projects. Coal had been replaced by cleaner burning natural gas as the fuel of choice for new generation development.