When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.

CHICAGO — For nearly four decades, owners of the Baldwin power plant in southern Illinois managed to avoid the most stringent requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. The gargantuan coal burner, ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...

The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately ...