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Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal Power

West Virginia regulators accuse American Electric Power of driving up costs with skimpy use of its coal plants. Others say the high costs of those aging plants are a growing burden to citizens in one of the nation's poorest states.

By Marianne Lavelle

Views of a radically altered natural environment in southern West Virginia due to extensive mountain top removal coal mining and logging. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Power lines along Ruland Road in Melville, New York on Feb. 13, 2020. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

The New US Climate Law Will Reduce Carbon Emissions and Make Electricity Less Expensive, Economists Say

By Marianne Lavelle

The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 3, 2020, ahead of a heatwave. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts

By Dan Gearino

Power lines on utility poles in Smithtown, New York on June 29, 2021. Credit: Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

By Dan Gearino

Trucks wait to enter the Great River Energy Blue Flint Ethanol plant in Underwood, North Dakota, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier

By Dan Gearino

Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing ‘Energy Burdens’

By Agya K. Aning

Engineer examines settings inside the yard of an electric substation

Energy Industry Jobs Bonanza Predicted

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Economic Fears Rise Over Indian Point

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News

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Saudi Arabia's Solar Goals Still Far Off

By Maria Gallucci

Kentucky coal plant

Coal-Reliant Kentucky Grapples with Energy Dilemma

By Maria Gallucci

$20 Billion Smart Grid Boom Predicted by 2020

By Maria Gallucci

Clean Energy Inspired by Oil Rigs

By Matthew Phelan

Memo to Coal Power Industry: Regulations are Coming

By Stacy Morford

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