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 ...

Some analysts worry utilities won’t be able to comply with EPA pollution limits while also meeting the power needs of an electrified economy. EPA’s power plant rules and rising electricity demand are ...

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

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 gas ...

A certain irony has threaded its way through the endless rulemaking filings, legal challenges, and political vicissitudes of the decades-long fight to stop U.S. fossil fuel power plants from spewing ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to continue enforcing for now a new rule that set more stringent standards on emissions of mercury and other toxic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to delay final limits on planet-warming emissions from gas-fired power plants to significantly strengthen them, the agency announced Thursday. The decision ...