A new Stanford Univesity study claims that a new kind of geothermal power could reduce dependance on coal and nuclear with no downsides.

New technologies developed to extract oil and gas from deep within Earth have also opened the door to accessing super-high ...

To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it’s usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh ...

Southeast Asia’s need for coal is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, undermining progress on cutting carbon ...

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants. Solar farms contributed 67,800 gigawatt-hours of electricity from ...

When I worked at the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, I helped the office launch some of the largest federal investments in clean energy in U.S. history. So it has been ...

The Department of Energy ordered Colorado coal plant to stay open for three months, one day before it was set to close. The coal plant will require tens of millions in repairs to get up and running ...

The Department of Energy has ordered a Colorado coal plant to remain open beyond its planned retirement as part of the department’s growing pattern of delaying coal plant closures over reliability ...

Coal produced at an underground mine in Kentucky poured from the end of a conveyor onto a pile being used to load trucks in December 2018. A group of Kentucky senators took aim at a recent report ...

SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural gas, cutting carbon emissions in half. The shutdown had been in ...

Global coal demand is expected to set a new record in 2025, followed by a decline through 2030, according to the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) study. With renewable capacity surging, ...

CENTRALIA, Wash. — In a controversial move, the U.S. Department of Energy under President Donald Trump has issued an emergency order directing TransAlta to continue operating its coal plant in ...