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An aerial view of a coal ash pond in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA Formally Denies Alabama’s Plan for Coal Ash Waste

By Lee Hedgepeth

A view of the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

BLM Ends Future Coal Mining on Powder River Basin Federal Lands

By Jake Bolster

A view of tractors at the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

At State’s Energy Summit, Wyoming Promises to ‘Make Sure Our Fossil Fuels Have a Future’

By Jake Bolster

A portion of the Tanners Creek Power Plant property near Lawrenceburg, Indiana was formerly an open dumping ground known as "Area 2." Credit: Tim Maloney

How Shadowy Corporations, Secret Deals and False Promises Keep Retired Coal Plants From Being Redeveloped

By Daniel Propp

A view of the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. The plant is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2025 and TerraPower plans to build a nuclear plant nearby. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Q&A: What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant?

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The J.M. Stuart Station, a coal plant that closed in 2018, is seen behind the Three Mile Creek near Manchester, Ohio. Credit: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

New EPA Rule Could Accelerate Cleanup of Coal Ash Dumps

By Daniel Propp

Craig Station, one of Colorados largest coal-fired power plants, is exempted from the new rules since it’s expected to fully close by 2028. Credit: Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Power Plant Pollution Targeted in Sweeping Actions by Biden Administration

By Marianne Lavelle

The TransAlta Centralia Generation station pictured on March 8, 2024. Mount Rainer is visible to the left of the plant. Credit: Jeremy Long/WITF

A Washington State Coal Plant Has to Close Next Year. Can Pennsylvania Communities Learn From Centralia’s Transition?

By Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact Pennsylvania

The home that exploded in Adger is one of dozens that Oak Grove Mine operators say could be impacted by subsidence. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A ‘Gassy’ Alabama Coal Mine Was Expanding Under a Family’s Home. After an Explosion, Two Were Left Critically Injured

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

A worker is seen inside Dry Fork Station, a coal-fired power plant in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Coal Power Plunged Again in 2023 and Is Fading Away in the U.S. So What Replaces It?

By Dan Gearino

A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Wyoming Considers Relaxing Its Carbon Capture Standards for Electric Utilities, Scrambling Political Alliances on Climate Change and Energy

By Jake Bolster

A Dominion Power utility truck drives down a road in Charleston, S.C. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion

By Daniel Shailer

A truck loaded with coal drives away from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine in the Powder River basin. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Wyoming, Slow To Take Federal Clean Energy Funds, Gambles State Money on Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Schemes to Keep Fossil Fuels Flowing

By Jake Bolster

The Orlando Utilities Commission, which operates the Stanton Energy Center, said the facility is compliant and has not received any word from the EPA indicating otherwise. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Reports ‘Widespread Noncompliance’ With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash

By Amy Green

A coke storage area is seen as steam rises from the quench towers at the Clairton Coke Works on Jan. 21, 2020, in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

In a Steel Town Outside Pittsburgh, an Old Fight Over Air Quality Drags On

By Kiley Bense

Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sen. Joe Manchin arrives for a “Politics & Eggs” event at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Jan. 12 in Manchester, N.H. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Sen. Joe Manchin Eyes a Possible Third Party Presidential Run

By Phil McKenna

Cows graze near a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

A Long-Delayed BLM Resource Management Plan in Southwest Wyoming Pits Conservation Against Resource Extraction

By Jake Bolster

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