EPA’s data shows that 103 million Americans live within 3 miles of a fossil fuel plant, and 61 million of them live within 3 miles of plants that are subject to weaker or effectively no standards ...

The Biden administration is making its last stand Friday to defend EPA’s power to slash planet-warming pollution from the electricity sector. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

The Environmental Protection Agency defended its rule limiting power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions against a legal challenge in federal court from Republican states and business groups, arguing the ...

A coalition of 23 states and the trade association representing nearly 900 local electric cooperatives filed separate lawsuits Thursday challenging the power plant rules finalized by the Environmental ...

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized four new rules Thursday that set tougher emissions limits on coal and new gas-fired power plants, taking restrictions further than the agency’s earlier ...

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Power plants account for more than one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Biden administration on Thursday announced a series of new rules designed to cut pollution emitted from coal and ...

A new EPA rule could accelerate the closure of coal-fired power plants in West Virginia and across the country. (File Photo) CHARLESTON — New regulations that could speed up the demise of coal-fired ...

(Updated March 7 with responses from EPA): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will drop requirements covering existing natural gas-fired power plants in its final Section 111 rule ...

Members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) slammed the EPA’s final rule for coal- and new natural gas-fired plants on a conference call with reporters Tuesday, calling it ...

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) The Environmental Protection Agency has been on a rulemaking frenzy this year, issuing a suite of new ...