Soot emissions from power plants rose nearly 20 percent above average when enforcement stalled during the shutdown seven years ago. During the last government shutdown, air pollution from coal plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coal-fired power plants emit both smoke and steam. Paul Souders/Stone via Getty Images When the U.S. government shut down in late ...

The Trump administration is allowing coal plants to release more pollution at a time when utilities across the country are opting to save their aging coal facilities from retirement so they can power ...

A slew of organizations have filed lawsuits against EPA’s decision to give coal plants several more years to reduce water pollution. Roughly a dozen environmental groups filed lawsuits this week to ...

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Manufacturers are at risk of doing the heavy-lifting under the main industry decarbonisation tool as new analysis ...

The U.S. EPA repealed a set of rules for coal-fired power plants that advocates say will hurt Hoosier health and Indiana's ...

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

When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution inspectors for more than a month. Those workers had to stop their work of monitoring ...