Communities living next to the next generation of AI power plants lost a federal pollution protection on July 27 when the EPA announced that "islanded" fossil-fuel generators built to serve data ...

In May 2024, the Biden-Harris administration finalized the first-ever federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants and new natural gas plants, setting compliance ...

Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin on June 11, 2025, announced a proposed rule titled “Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired ...

Continuing the regulatory whiplash over greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from power plants, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed repealing the Biden administration ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to let 11 coal plants dump toxic coal ash into unlined pits until 2031 — a full decade later than allowed under current federal rules. The move tosses a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration’s latest effort to boost the fossil fuel ...

The Environmental Protection Agency this week rescinded regulations limiting mercury and other hazardous toxins from power plants, citing the need to boost baseload energy at a time when demand for ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that ...

Two chemical plants, including one in Louisville, were recently granted exemptions to comply with air standards that limit toxic emissions.

There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At least 91% of those coal plants are polluting groundwater above federal ...