Days after NOAA released figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in recorded history, the EPA moved to roll back emission standards for power plants. "The EPA is trying to get out of ...

Virginia Electric Power Co. – a subsidiary of Dominion Energy, which has a power plant on the exemption list – had a Clean Air Act settlement totaling $1.2 billion in 2003.

The Trump administration’s emergency order keeping a Michigan coal power plant open is generating optimism from some Republicans and angst from environmentalists. Both camps wonder just how long the ...

The Trump administration says that it plans to delay and potentially loosen water pollution rules for coal-fired power plants ...

North Dakota's largest coal plant could help power a new industrial park just a few years after financial issues almost led ...

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud ...

In Alabama, the site of a coal-fired plant, Plant Gorgas, shuttered in 2019, will become home to Alabama Power’s first utility-scale battery energy storage plant. Texas-based Vistra, meanwhile, is in ...

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now ...

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Clean Power Plan, ruling that the EPA lacked authority under section 111 of the federal Clean Air Act to require existing power plants to shift ...

An aging coal power plant slated to shutter will run through the summer at the order of Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest energy customers tens of millions of dollars.

Kincaid Generation coal-fired power station in Pawnee, Illinois, on May 8, 2025. In an attempt to revive the nation’s dwindling coal industry, President Donald Trump threw a lifeline to a few ...

The news comes amid a larger fight over what the transition to cleaner energy should look like — or if there should be a move ...