A bipartisan majority of the West Virginia House of Delegates sent a clear message to the state Senate Tuesday by rejecting the Senate’s efforts to require coal-fired power plants to operate even when ...
Air pollution from coal-fired power plants spiked in 2025, a striking reversal of long-term progress in air quality as the Trump administration boosted coal use. The emission increases were among the ...
The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter.
The main point of contention is a goal for coal-fired power plants would need to be operating at 69% capacity.
The Springerville closure is the latest in a series of coal plants to close. Four others in the Mountain West were shut down ...
Agency reverts to old emissions rules in administration push to keep aging coal plants on line by power producers such as TVA; in supplying more energy to US military bases; and through emergency ...
Coal plants are the largest single human source of mercury pollutants. The mercury emitted later falls in rain or simply by gravity, entering the food chain through fish and other items that people ...
Energy regulators in Arizona have given the go-ahead to convert several units at two coal-fired power plants in the state to burn natural gas.
(The Center Square) – Two coal-fired power plants in Tennessee that had been scheduled for closure in 2026 and 2028 will be kept open for the “foreseeable future” after a unanimous vote by the board ...
Arizona regulators just approved converting two major coal plants to natural gas.
More than 50 large coal units were commissioned in 2025, up from fewer than 20 a year over the previous decade.
China has grown its coal power and renewables capacities in tandem, but 2025 figures see the fossil fuel once again take ...