What started as an April Fools' joke by a marketing agency now benefits the nonprofit Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation.

In Homer City, the dread of losing its coal-fired plant — it shut down in 2023 after operating for 54 years — existed for years in the hills of western Pennsylvania’s coal country.

A new study found that to offset the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to cover an ...

A 63-year-old coal-fired power plant was scheduled to permanently close its doors in Michigan on June 1. So was an oil- and gas-powered plant that was built in the 1960s in Pennsylvania.

In Western Pa., the owners of the old Homer City plant demolished smokestacks and cooling towers and announced a $10 billion plan for a gas-powered data center campus.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — 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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — 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 ...

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025 ...

In this file photo from June 10, a flume of emissions flow from a stack at the Cheswick Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, in Springdale, Pa. Earlier this month, the Trump ...

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

The Homer City Generating Station, a former coal power plant in Indiana County, is being turned into the country’s largest natural gas power plant. In Western Pennsylvania, an old coal town gets ...