The EPA wants to give Duke Energy and others more time to cut emissions that pollute ground and surface waters with heavy ...

The plants need flexibility to meet rising electricity demand, the EPA says. Environmental groups argue that undermines Clean ...

A slew of organizations have filed lawsuits against EPA's decision to give coal plants several more years to reduce water ...

The Center for Biological Diversity is seeking judicial review of the EPA’s compliance deadlines for water pollution limits ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with ...

The environmental watchdog has issued a clean-up notice to the operator of a coal mine near Lithgow over pollution in a river ...

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 Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency over its final rule to weaken, and extend until 2035, national standards that limit or eliminate toxic water ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to ...

Pennsylvania has the most abandoned mines of any state, McAllister said. Decades of coal mining in Pennsylvania have created a range of environmental and public safety problems, from underground fires ...

Political conflicts between environmental concerns and federal regulations are more than nebulous, philosophical debates. The concrete impact can be seen in a battle over a coal-fired electricity plan ...

Leaders insisted China-backed coal deals would fix Pakistan’s energy crisis. But the power plants have threatened residents’ health and left the nation in a debt trap.