The budget bill signed by President Donald Trump and more recent executive order slash renewable energy creduts in favor of ...

Evansville has been called a sacrifice zone due to pollution hazards, and federal goals to lower environmental safeguards ...

The bill would have eliminated a 2030 emissions-reduction target for Duke Energy — and caused the utility to build less ...

Duke Energy recently proposed replacing two aging coal units with natural gas plants. New proposal could be pathway to keep ...

A settlement with Indiana coal producers, announced Tuesday, could lead to third-party operation of coal units at Duke Energy Indiana’s Cayuga Generating Station.

The project would add more than 470 megawatts to the aging facility’s 1005-megawatt capacity. Cayuga has operated for 55-plus years and is the oldest coal-fired facility in Duke’s Hoosier fleet.

Companies such as Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Duke Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority — the nation’s largest government-run power provider — are among the largest users of coal.

Similarly, North Carolina state regulators required Duke Energy to excavate 14 coal ash pits by 2038. “What remains is a lot of groundwater pollution at many of these sites,” Torrey said.

In Indiana, Duke Energy proposed extending the life of its Gibson Generating Station, a 50-year-old plant that can burn enough coal to produce more than 3,300 megawatts of electricity, until 2038 ...

The Plainfield-based utility said the project will coincide with the retirement of the almost 60-year-old coal-fired units at Cayuga—the oldest of Duke’s Indiana coal plants—and once ...

BELEWS CREEK, N.C. — Duke Energy is moving forward with a groundbreaking plan to add a nuclear energy reactor to the Triad. There are already three nuclear power plants in North Carolina ...