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We Energies will convert its coal-fired power plant near downtown Milwaukee to natural gas, the company announced Friday.
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We Energies wants to convert Milwaukee plant from coal to natural gas
1,000-foot coal freighter blocks St. Marys channel
The U.S. Coast Guard says crews are working to free a grounded 1,000-foot coal freighter blocking the outbound channel of the St. Marys River that links lakes Superior and Huron.
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Read More »New life for old Minn. power plant: Company switches from coal to natural gas 
A decade-old plan to build a new power plant in northern Minnesota is coming back before the state’s Public Utilities Commission next week – but in a smaller form and with a different energy source.
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Read More »1 dead, 1 critical in Wis. mill accident (UPDATE)
One man is dead and another critically hurt after being burned by fly ash at a mill in Tomahawk.
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Read More »Nuclear waste being hauled out of Wisconsin plant
A massive project to remove decades-old radioactive waste from a western Wisconsin power plant is finally under way following five years of planning.
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Read More »Senate rejects bid to block EPA power plant rule
The U.S Senate's top Republican called again Wednesday for the Environmental Protection Agency to back off from "heavy-handed" regulations that he said were costing jobs in the private sector.
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Read More »Coal use falling fast at power plants
Babcock & Wilcox gets contract for Wis. coal plant
Power plant equipment maker Babcock & Wilcox Co. said on Monday that it has gotten a $150 million contract to design, supply, and build environmental equipment for a coal-fired power plant in Pardeeville, Wis.
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Read More »EPA to reduce new power plants’ carbon pollution
The Obama administration forged ahead on Tuesday with the first-ever limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants, ignoring protests from industry and Republicans who have said the regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal, the dominant U.S. energy source.
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Read More »Coal-to-fuel plant for Wis. electricity gets 4th extension
Developers of a coal-to-liquid fuel factory proposed for western North Dakota have been granted a fourth extension of state aid to study the project.
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