Julianne Geiger is a veteran editor, writer and researcher for Oilprice.com, and a member of the Creative Professionals Networking Group. The American coal industry, once the backbone of the nation’s ...

Chris Wright, chief executive officer of Liberty Energy Inc. and US energy secretary nominee for US President-elect Donald Trump, during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation ...

Portrait of a mid adult man in his 30s checking his energy bills at home. He has a worried expression and touches his face with his hand while looking at the bills. He is surrounded by documents, his ...

Six decades after it began, coal-fired electricity is officially gone from New England following the shut-down of Merrimack Station in Bow, the region’s last power plant of its kind. Merrimack Station ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2024, Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the 1,900‑megawatt Intermountain Power Project ...

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.

Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that President Trump will struggle to do away with. By Ivan Penn President Trump last ...

Coal power is a dirtier energy source than renewables like wind and solar. But even for those Americans who don’t care about climate, it’s also a more expensive energy source—and the economics of ...

An aging coal power plant that was supposed to shutter last week will run throughout the summer at the order of President Donald Trump’s Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest ...

While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of public lands at a discount and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the most ...

The president signed executive orders Tuesday that keep aging coal generators running and undermine efforts to rein in climate pollution. President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an unprecedented ...

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud computing and ...