When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental ...

Many power plants benefiting from exemptions rank among the nation’s worst polluters. The Trump administration says cheaper ...

The EPA rule would undo decades of progress on limiting US climate pollution and could drive up energy prices if expensive ...

Still the country met that goal well before 2030, as coal-fired power plants were replaced by natural gas plants that emit less climate pollution. In 2019 former President Trump replaced the Obama ...

A new study determined for the first time that soot pollution from coal-fired power plants is more dangerous than soot from other sources. During the past two decades, the researchers found ...

Require all coal-fired power plants that plan to run in the long term, and all new natural-gas-fired plants, to control 90% of their carbon pollution. Strengthen and update mercury and toxic air ...

Yet Cook Country is hundreds of miles away from the nearest power plant. The Labadie plant, Cook County’s biggest coal pollution contributor, owned by the American energy company Ameren ...

The crackdown on coal plants is nearly a decade in the making. President Barack Obama tried to limit carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, but his 2015 Clean Power Plan was blocked by the ...

The Biden administration moved Wednesday to strengthen a rule limiting millions of gallons of toxic water pollution from coal power plants, a change that could lead some plants to shut down or ...

Coal-fueled power plants including some in Texas will have to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions and toxic metal pollution and handle coal ash waste more safely under new rules announced ...

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