A tumbleweed blows through piles of coal at a mine in Colstrip, Mont., in December 2023. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities ...
In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...
Coal may be "cleaner than ever," but it's still not "clean" energy, experts say. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expand the mining and use of coal in the U.S., calling ...
The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave ...
When power plants burn coal to generate electricity, the plants leave behind toxic ash. It took decades for the Environmental Protection Agency to create and enforce regulations to keep those toxins ...
Not long ago, the phrase “clean coal” seemed like an oxymoron. Coal-fired power plants emit a witch’s brew of air pollutants that, unless it is removed with scrubbers, tarnishes the air, creates acid ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip ...