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The food industry will go to great lengths (and spend a fortune) to lobby policymakers, confuse the public and politicize ...
Detroit – The U.S. Energy Department ordered a Michigan coal-fired power plant to remain open, at least until late August, citing possible electricity shortfalls in the central U.S. State ...
HARRIMAN, Tenn. — Inside the turbine room of the Kingston Fossil Plant, heat shimmers off nine sets of giant generators and turbines connected to boilers where the Tennessee Valley Authority has ...
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — A week before an Ottawa County coal plant was set to close, the federal government is stepping in. Consumers Energy was set to close the 1,560 megawatt J.H. Campbell plant ...
An analysis by the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) finds that the country’s energy transition plans do not address the remaining impacts of coal plants such as pollution ...
A former EPA official warns exemption for some coal-fired power plants could be the first step toward gutting pollution rules for all plants. A truck prepares to haul coal at the North Antelope ...
Burning coal for electricity first began in the United States in the 1800s. By the 1960s, power plants accounted for most of the country’s coal consumption. Transporting that coal depends on ...
A think tank’s suggestion of an all renewable “energy park” is the latest idea for replacing Xcel Energy’s last coal plant in Colorado. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is holding ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — 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 ...