Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. The arctic blast which put a vast swath of the continental ...

Rising natural gas prices, an explosion of new data centers, and EPA policy changes are giving old coal plants new life.

Portrait of a mid adult man in his 30s checking his energy bills at home. He has a worried expression and touches his face with his hand while looking at the bills. He is surrounded by documents, his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The steam plume from the TransAlta coal power plant outside Centralia, Wash. could formerly be seen from 30 miles away on cold, ...

Coal-fired electric power has been like the Incredible Shrinking Man of 21 st century energy in the United States. Low-cost natural gas burned in modern combined cycles, inexpensive and subsidized ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Department of War (DOW) to work directly with coal-fired power plants on new long-term power purchasing agreements, arguing the ...

FILE - The smokestacks of the former coal-fired Homer City Generating Station crumble in a planned demolition to make way for a new natural gas-fired power plant in Homer City, Pa., March 22, 2025.

The Sandy Creek Energy Station is America's newest coal-fired power plant, and it's expected to remain offline until 2027. The power plant near Waco, Texas, which began delivering power to the grid in ...

Coal power is a dirtier energy source than renewables like wind and solar. But even for those Americans who don’t care about climate, it’s also a more expensive energy source—and the economics of ...

In the middle of President Trump’s first term, a tale of two power plants reflected the nation’s seemingly irrevocable course of turning from high carbon dioxide-emitting coal to non-emitting nuclear ...