"It's a perfect storm." ...

For the first time in years, mercury pollution is on the rise in the U.S. According to EPA data, emissions of this ...

Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities ...

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 ...

Air pollution cut solar electricity generation by 5.8% in 2023, with coal-related aerosols responsible for huge losses in solar power output.

A slew of organizations have filed lawsuits against EPA’s decision to give coal plants several more years to reduce water pollution. Roughly a dozen environmental groups filed lawsuits this week to ...

Solar power is one of the cleanest sources of energy we have available, and we're actively making it less effective when we burn coal for power.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Barbara Johnson has been fighting coal pollution for decades in her mostly Black neighborhood of North St. Louis as an organizer with Metropolitan Congregations United — one of many ...

The Trump administration has again ordered the coal-fired Campbell power plant in West Michigan to remain open, despite ...

The closure of a coal processing plant in western Pennsylvania nearly a decade ago has been linked to a dramatic drop in emergency room visits among children with asthma, new research on the health ...

The lawsuit challenges Alabama Power’s plans to leave more than 21 million tons of coal ash in an unlined pond at the head of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, an area sometimes called “America’s Amazon” for ...

A new study has revealed that coal pollution is significantly reducing the energy output of solar PV installations, particularly where they are located side by side, in yet another of the never-ending ...