Along with trying to ramp up development of new nuclear and natural-gas power plants, the administration’s biggest pivot from ...

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement ...

As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when ...

After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new ...

Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese ...

The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the US, but fossil fuels still dominate.

We need coal-fired power plants to provide baseload generation because you just can’t trust renewables. They’re intermittent. Renewables require too much backup energy, making them very expensive.

One of the most consequential moments in California’s drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in ...

The Trump administration is spending more than half a billion dollars to help prop up the dying coal industry. It’s also weakening pollution regulations and opening up more federal land to coal mining ...

The last coal-fired power plant in New England, Merrimack Station, has stopped running. Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial ...

U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 ...