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