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

Goree, 72, lives in Beckville, a town of fewer than 800 people, just miles from the Martin Lake coal plant, a 2.4-gigawatt facility that has loomed over the region since the late 1970s.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic ...

“We get that long range transport from the Midwest and Western states and even Texas,” he said. “Then that combines with vehicular pollution coming up the I-95 corridor, and it all comes to ...

Chad Schlichtemeier, of DEQ's Air Quality Division, ... Sinclair Oil Corp. recently entered a long-term contract to market "ultra-low-sulfur" diesel fuel derived from the coal-to-liquids plant.

All told the 69 coal plants Trump exempted from the Mercury and Air Toxics Rule emitted 2,650 pounds of mercury into the atmosphere in 2023, the last year for which federal records are available.

The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene ...

Two Ameren coal plants in the St. Louis region are receiving an air pollution exemption from President Donald Trump's administration. The Labadie Energy Center in Labadie and the Sioux Energy ...

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There is one operating coal-fired power plant left in New England, a far cry from the widespread use of coal that began nearly a century-and-a-half ago. That plant — the Merrimack Power Station ...

A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., in 2015. It is the last operating coal-fired power plant in New England and is slated to close in 2028.