Rising natural gas prices, an explosion of new data centers, and EPA policy changes are giving old coal plants new life.

The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger ...

China has grown its coal power and renewables capacities in tandem, but 2025 figures see the fossil fuel once again take ...

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 ...

The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — An unceasing drumbeat of public criticism over the continued operation of one of Michigan’s last ...

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 ...

The Department of Energy claimed “emergency” conditions in the Pacific Northwest required TransAlta to continue running Washington’s last coal plant past its planned retirement. The company plans to ...

State attorney general disputes claimed regional power supply gap—saying the barely functional early 1970s plant has long been set to close and awaits a planned $600M conversion to natural gas.

The Springerville closure is the latest in a series of coal plants to close. Four others in the Mountain West were shut down ...

India has over 24,000 MW of coal and lignite-based power generation capacity at various planning stages, according to the ...

Government has long sought to cut coal imports for the power sector, but those efforts have failed as power plants have been unable to burn lower-quality local coal ...