The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, ...

One of the oldest power plants in the United States, perched on the edge of the nation’s largest coal mine, was scheduled to close in 2027. But the plant’s operator recently canceled the retirement of ...

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 15, 2003 — DTE Energy has made significant progress toward commercial recovery of a previously untapped energy resource — fine coal from abandoned fine-coal slurry ponds. The ...

An aging coal power plant that was supposed to shutter last week will run throughout the summer at the order of President Donald Trump’s Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest ...

As President Trump tries to revive the United States coal industry, research has found that closing a coal facility can improve local health. By Claire Brown Coal miners with black lung disease are ...

A Raleigh County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to attempted theft and property destruction at a coal preparation plant in Wyoming County. Jared W ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Even as the federal government attempts to prop up the waning coal industry, New ...

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