The Group of Seven nations announced Tuesday its member nations would end the use of “unabated” coal by 2035, but left the door open for countries to stretch that deadline in particular contexts.
The rules would require existing coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants to reduce climate pollution 90 percent by 2039 and sharply cut emissions of toxic metals such as mercury. Companion rules ...
Vietnam is urging coal miners to maximize production before the hot summer months, the latest emerging nation turning to the dirtiest fossil fuel to meet soaring power use. Weaker output from ...
The rules will require coal-fueled plants, including Texas plants that produced about 12% of power on the state’s grid this year, to reduce carbon emissions and mercury pollution and handle ...
New regulations could spell the end for plants that burn coal, the fossil fuel that powered the country for more than a century. By Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport The Biden administration on ...
WASHINGTON — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse ...
Coal-fueled power plants including some in Texas will have to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions and toxic metal pollution and handle coal ash waste more safely under new rules announced ...