The US government has ordered a Washington state coal plant to continue operating past its scheduled retirement date, marking ...

Washington state's last coal plant, which was scheduled to close at the end of this year in Centralia, will be converted to burn natural gas. Power generation company TransAlta announced Wednesday the ...

The last two coal-burning units at the Naughton power plant near Kemmerer are scheduled to go dark this month so crews can ...

The U.S. energy secretary signed an order on Tuesday to keep a unit open at TransAlta coal power plant in Washington state through much of the winter, in the latest move by the Trump administration to ...

Across the United States, hulking coal plants that once defined local skylines are being stripped down and rebuilt as anchors ...

TVA originally planned to close all of its coal power plants by the year 2035. Now, the energy giant says it's reconsidering due to a growing region and the amount of power AI requires to operate.

Duke Energy is proposing a three-year extension for the Gibson power plant in southwest Indiana, the second-largest coal-fired power plant in the country. Gibson, originally scheduled to close in 2035 ...

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.

The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, ...

13.1M acres of federal land to open for coal leasing $625M to expand coal-fired power generation Administration expects coal plants to delay closures Analysts doubt long-term coal revival as gas, ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2024, Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the 1,900‑megawatt Intermountain Power Project ...

Julianne Geiger is a veteran editor, writer and researcher for Oilprice.com, and a member of the Creative Professionals Networking Group. The American coal industry, once the backbone of the nation’s ...