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 ...

CHICAGO — In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak Park, which in warmer weather is packed with children climbing ...

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 ...

Pollution from U.S. power plants rose last year, a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity. Levels of sulfur dioxide ...

Air pollution from coal-fired power plants spiked in 2025, a striking reversal of long-term progress in air quality as the Trump administration boosted coal use. The emission increases were among the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trent Williams and his grandson, Nathan, look across the Ohio River at the Hugh L. Spurlock Generating Station, a coal power plant ...

Environmental regulators should revise a draft permit for a natural gas-fired power plant to operate in South Huntingdon to make the plant comply with air pollution regulations or reject the permit.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency over its final rule to weaken, and extend until 2035, national standards that limit or eliminate toxic ...