Train cars full of coal from Wyoming wait to be unloaded at Consumer Energy’s J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in Ottawa County, Mich. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

But not everyone was aboard the coal train. In 2017, the Department of Energy under Trump, headed by then-Secretary Rick Perry, made a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ...

This week, US president Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to revive “America’s beautiful, clean coal industry” such that it can power the rise in electricity demand from, among ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Xcel Energy’s coal-powered Cherokee Generating Station, Oct. 18, 2024. ... A single coal train can have 110 cars and be over a mile long, according to Wheeler.

American coal consumption is expected to decline 5% from 386 million tons in 2023 to 368 million tons in 2024, according to the IEA. Meanwhile, China is expected to see demand grow by 1% in 2024 ...

Similarly, North Carolina state regulators required Duke Energy to excavate 14 coal ash pits by 2038. “What remains is a lot of groundwater pollution at many of these sites,” Torrey said.

A coal train passes through Thurmond, West Virginia, on Sunday, July 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) Over the past two decades, coal use in the United States has fallen.

Oct. 22 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a $428 billion investment directed to more than a dozen U.S. "coal communities" to advance the domestic manufacturing of clean ...

Startup aims to use rails, not power lines, to transport renewable energy; Colorado may host pilot project San Francisco-based SunTrain joins Xcel Energy, NREL to apply for $10M grant for first-of ...