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 ...

U.S. power plant pollution rose last year, according to a green group’s analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Emissions of sulfur dioxide increased by 18 percent in 2025, according ...

In 2021, the owner of the two plants announced that they would close by 2028, but company leaders reversed course last year.

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 ...

Washington state’s last remaining coal-fired power plant hasn’t generated meaningful electricity since January. The Centralia ...

Under a proposed consent decree, the plants’ owners would have until 2028 to complete the upgrades with periodic deadlines ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new “good neighbor” rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency will restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas ...

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 ...

The proposal announced Friday would set the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants. PRO “The EPA … does not anticipate this rule will have any impacts on the price ...