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 ...

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After only about 50 years and billions and billions more pounds of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, the EPA on Friday will introduce a limit on the amount of pollution new coal power plants ...

The NRDC is asking the Sixth Circuit to review the EPA's decision to approve Ohio's smog plan for Greater Cleveland. NRDC ...

The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever ...

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 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to extend compliance dates for coal-fired plants subject to wastewater zero-discharge standards, according to a court filing from the agency this ...

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 ...

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The agency’s draft guidance is careful not to endorse any action taken on contamination to date. In a recent listening ...

The Environmental Protection Agency this week rescinded regulations limiting mercury and other hazardous toxins from power plants, citing the need to boost baseload energy at a time when demand for ...

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 ...