News

The EPA announced it plans to stop six coal-fired power plants from continuing to dump coal ash – a toxic byproduct of making coal-fired electricity – into unlined ponds.
A polluting, coal-fired power plant found the key to solving America’s biggest clean energy challenge. Story by Ella Nilsen and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir • 3mo.
London-listed natural resources development company Contango Holdings reports that construction of the wash plant at its Lubu coking coal project, in Zimbabwe, has been completed ahead of ...
Anthracite producer Zululand Anthracite Colliery (ZAC) has commissioned a new 25-ton-an-hour filter press, worth R14.5-million, at its Emakhalathini coal washing plant, in KwaZulu-Natal, following ...
A polluting, coal-fired power plant found the key to solving America’s biggest clean energy challenge By Ella Nilsen and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir 5 minute read ...
Key tenets of the agreement on the Detroit-based company’s 20-year clean energy plan include ending the use of coal by 2032, when DTE will close the Monroe Power Plant three years earlier than ...
Trump is forcing this dirty, costly coal plant to stay open The administration blocked an electricity plant in Michigan from closing, overturning a plan by a utility and local officials. June 1, 2025 ...
The Monroe coal-fired power plant is expected to be closed in 2032, though it could be earlier. Clean energy advocates said DTE agreed to consider a 2030 retirement date in its next integrated ...
Thermal coal, which is the variety used to generate power, has seen a 170% rise in price since the end of 2021–most of those gains made following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A 63-year-old coal-fired power plant was scheduled to permanently close its doors in Michigan on June 1. So was an oil- and gas-powered plant that was built in the 1960s in Pennsylvania.
A South Texas coal-fired power plant will receive more than $1 billion in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to convert into a solar and battery facility, according to the agency.