With current and former Luminant employees looking on, Winfield South Mine’s largest and most distinctive piece of equipment took its final bow Sunday, June 17. “It went fast. I heard one pop. Then I looked up and the second one went and it was gone,” said Randy Green, equipment operator.
Read MoreBig Brown’s Trevor Lousberg and his friend Eamond McAuley can tell you exactly where they were on Saturday, March 24 at 6:30 p.m. – the day they saved a life. After driving up to a car-train collision, Trevor and Eamond, a Mount Pleasant High School math teacher, took quick action to save the life of […]
Read MoreWith a clear blue Texas sky keeping watch overhead, a grass-planting machine drops seed after seed – a trail that Luminant and Texas Parks and Wildlife hope will help lead a struggling species back home. “Quail and grassland birds are some of the most rapidly declining bird groups in the United States today,” explains Jason […]
Read MoreAs Texas’ largest power producer, Luminant is proud to be a leader in the progress the state is making to create an even cleaner energy future. From its diverse portfolio of energy sources to its industry-leading reclamation practices, the company is sharing its 2011 environmental highlights in its new Environmental Review and the accompanying supplemental […]
Read MoreWith a focus on sharing knowledge about our natural resources, their role in energy production and the importance of environmental stewardship, Luminant recently hosted Freestone County fifth-graders for its fifth annual Environmental Awareness Day at Big Brown Power Plant and Mine.
Read MoreLuminant’s Big Brown Mine is currently welcoming its regular spring visitors. Just last week, the first interior least terns of the season appeared on site 15 years after they were initially spotted nesting at the mine. Listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as endangered species, the […]
Read MoreIn the middle of Luminant’s Kosse Mine on a series of warm summer days, archeologists painstakingly uncovered the details of a late 19th– to early 20th-century community known as Headsville. The town had been small, its residents hardworking, its economic center a gristmill and cotton gin – pieces of which were just recently found partially […]
Read MoreAfter a competitive application process that began with more than 200 well-qualified candidates, Luminant Power Track is pleased to welcome 43 top students to its newly expanded 2012 scholarship program. This year, Luminant Power Track is offering accepted students scholarships to pursue a two-year associate degree in one of four degree paths – three of […]
Read MoreIt was all zeros across the scoreboard for Phil Humber, Chicago White Sox pitcher and son of Martin Lake Power Plant employee Greg Humber – with no hits, walks, runs or errors for nine innings, he achieved major league baseball’s 21st perfect game in history.
Read MoreRicky Foster, Luminant regional safety manager, was recently honored with the Working Together for a Safer Tomorrow award by the Safety Council of East Texas for his consistent promotion of safety both on the job and off.
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