Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coal-fired power plants emit both smoke and steam. Paul Souders/Stone via Getty Images When the U.S. government shut down in late ...

A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies ...

Soot emissions from power plants rose nearly 20 percent above average when enforcement stalled during the shutdown seven years ago. During the last government shutdown, air pollution from coal plants ...

The EPA rolled back a Biden-era regulation targeting power plants that burn lignite coal and emit significant amounts of ...

EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants.

The EPA rolled back a Biden-era regulation targeting power plants that emit significant amounts of toxic mercury and other ...

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The U.S. EPA repealed a set of rules for coal-fired power plants that advocates say will hurt Hoosier health and Indiana's ...

FPL's Indiantown plant released carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other toxic pollutants over the past decade.

Conservation groups have sued the Trump administration to try to keep it from allowing coal-fired power plants to dump heavy metals that end up in drinking water, including in North Carolina. The ...

When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution inspectors for more than a month. Those workers had to stop their work of monitoring ...