Perlman wants to turn coal into clean natural gas. The concept isn't new. In the 1800s, cities such as Boston used big, dirty ovens to turn coal into town gas to fuel streetlights and gas lamps in ...

A Kansas energy provider paused plans to transition away from coal power and will try to raise its rates to meet the energy demands of a new, $4 billion electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing ...

The White House is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels.

Surrounded by coal miners, President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to roll back his predecessor’s policies limiting lung-damaging, climate-changing pollution from power plants ...

Instead of accelerating clean projects, the Trump administration has chosen to prop up aging, money-losing coal plants.

If both those steps can be taken by governments and donors, then market forces can be unleashed to add cheap, clean capacity to grids, which would leave much of the world’s stock of dirty coal ...

You won’t find coal there and nor will you find it mentioned in President Donald Trump’s new executive order to “Increase American Mineral Production.” But it is lurking there between the ...

“Coal plants are old and dirty, uncompetitive and unreliable,” Natural Resources Defense Council Managing Director Kit Kennedy told The New York Times. “The Trump administration is stuck in ...

Coal is a dirty, archaic way to produce energy. The truth is that places like China want clean, safe, renewable energy. China is grappling with a public health crisis from breathing toxic air ...

Coal-fired power plants have done their fair share of damage over the past century. From climate change to acid rain, black lung to heart disease, they’ve generally been on the debit side of the ...

Thanks to dry weather, China’s dams are failing to produce the expected electricity this year. “Nationwide hydro generation in the first five months of 2023 was the lowest for the time of year ...