Here and there, in small demonstration projects, engineers are exploring technologies that could turn coal into power without these environmental costs. Yet unless utilities start building such plants ...

Nevada’s last coal plant is scheduled to close in 2025 after 40 years of service due to rising operation costs. The closure will dramatically improve air quality, yet the economic impact will be ...

The global push for biomass that can be burned for energy is causing concern about the price Indonesia's forests are paying ...

A few dozen kilometers from the Philippine capital Manila sits a coal plant that some hope could be a model for how developing countries can quit the polluting fossil fuel. An alliance led by The ...

The country’s final coal-fired power plant just shut down, marking a major milestone for the notoriously polluting fossil fuel. The UK is shutting down its final coal-fired power plant today ...

Power giant AGL is testing ways to turn off its coal units so it can dodge the daytime onslaught of rooftop solar flooding the grid with cheap electricity.Credit: Rob Homer Plants that burn coal ...

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal. By Somini Sengupta Britain, the nation that ...

whose strong economic growth and heavy reliance on its coal-fired power plant infrastructure means that the overall decline in consumption has only reached a paltry 0.8%. Other countries ...

A state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant that will soon go online in the seaside town of Taketoyo in Aichi Prefecture is expected to help alleviate Japan’s electricity supply shortage.

Researchers have discovered cancer-causing contaminants in sediments and fish in a waterway near a coal ash landfill in ...