Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TransAlta’s coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Wash., is among the facilities that received emergency orders from the U.S.

Across the United States, hulking coal plants that once symbolized industrial might are being stripped down and rebuilt as engines of a cleaner grid. Instead of blasting carbon into the sky, these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a Feb. 20 stop in Louisville, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it would loosen regulations on mercury, ...

Until May 2025, utility executives like those at Consumers Energy in Michigan operated in the world of orderly oversight of electricity generation. In coordination with MISO, the regional transmission ...

A Michigan power plant that has consumed coal in a roaring furnace to generate electricity since the early 1960s was supposed to retire last year. Instead, it’s been kept running for months, on the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The nation's largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority prefers to keep its two largest coal-fired power plants operating beyond their previously planned retirements in 2027 and 2028, according to TVA documents. TVA published ...

The Trump administration is using emergency powers and subsidies to keep U.S. coal plants running ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an update on damages to its largest power plant, Xcel Energy has listed keeping coal plants open longer than scheduled among the suggestions for ensuring ...

Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions. By Claire Brown and Brad Plumer Over the ...

In an unprecedented use of federal authority, President Donald Trump's administration has invoked emergency powers to force a series of retiring coal plants to stay open. Utilities, states and grid ...