An analysis of EPA data found U.S. power plant pollution rose in 2025, with sulfur dioxide emissions up 18%, nitrogen oxide up 7%, and carbon dioxide up 4%. The Natural Resources Defense Council ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, part of a wide-ranging rollback of environmental ...

The Environmental Protection Agency disclosed plans to roll back a crucial rule limiting power plant pollution, the Guardian recently reported. In April 2024, the EPA finalized a set of rules ...

Power plants may emit higher amounts of pollution during lapses in federal monitoring and enforcement, such as during a government shutdown, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.

In this undated file photo, steam and pollution rise on a cold day at the Arapaho Station Coal Power Plant, a coal fired power plant along the Platte River in Littleton, just outside Denver, Colorado.

The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a proposed regulation that would end all federal limits on planet-warming pollution generated by coal and gas-fired power plants, according to documents ...

The Trump administration announced plans to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions and other airborne pollutants from the nation's fossil fuel-fired power plants. The proposal is part of the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday weakened air pollution standards for new power plants and said it would no longer consider the health impacts and resulting economic costs of some of the ...

EPA has agreed to a new haze reduction plan for Texas that will not require any fresh pollution cuts from the state’s outsize fleet of coal-fired power plants. In the plan, Texas “determined that no ...

INDIANTOWN — Florida Power & Light Co., the state's largest electric utility, demolished its coal-fired power plant but continues releasing toxic air pollution from its natural gas-fired plant. Martin ...