The Trump administration has announced new pollution rules meant to keep existing coal power plants operating and save American coal-mining jobs.

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The Trump administration on Tuesday came out with new rules scaling back Obama Administration constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration's main programs to rein in climate-changing fossil-fuel emissions.

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Residents in southeast Wisconsin are concerned about how their health is being affected by black coal dust from a nearby power plant.

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Wisconsin has fallen behind other states in efforts to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide billowing from smokestacks at coal-burning power plants.

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Wisconsin utility regulators removed references to climate change from their website months before state environmental officials altered global-warming language on their own site.

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Alliant Energy Corp. has announced its plan to close its coal-fired power plant in Cassville by the end of the year.

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a pair of high-profile lawsuits challenging the Obama administration's sweeping plan to address climate change, saying it's too early to challenge a proposed rule that isn't yet final.

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A coal-fired passenger ferry is set to return to service on Lake Michigan after undergoing a makeover to meet terms of a deal with the Environmental Protection Agency.

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The last coal-fired steamship operating in U.S. waters is undergoing a makeover to meet the terms of a deal with the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate pollution from the disposal of coal ash.

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The Obama administration has set the first national standards for waste generated from coal burned for electricity, treating the leftovers more like household garbage rather than hazardous material.

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