Topic: power plants

Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Utilities lobby with customer dollars

Kate Yoder - Grist
Men up pole working on power lines (Getty Images)

Utility workers may sleep at work soon

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/agnormark)

EPA to ease rules on storing coal ash

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(AP/Matthew Brown)

The winds of deadly pollution

Miyo McGinn - Grist
Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, left, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Mary B. Neumayr, stand as EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signs the Affordable Clean Energy Rule during a media availability at the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

22 states sue Trump admin over EPA plan

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
(AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

DOE props up coal, nuclear power

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(AP/Matthew Brown)

Earth wins a round in EPA court battle

Sarah Okeson
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1482935p1.html'>maramicado</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Energy from burning fast fashion

Sophie Linden - Alternet
Scott Pruitt (Getty/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Scott Pruitt can't save coal

Amanda Marcotte
FILE - This May 14, 2012, file photo, shows the Reid-Gardner power station on the Moapa Indian Reservation, in Moapa, Nev. Nevada’s main electric utility is agreeing to pay $4.3 million to clean up contamination at the coal-fired power plant near Las Vegas that neighboring Native Americans blame for residential health problems and pollution of a tributary to the Lake Mead reservoir and Colorado River. () (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Plant 7th largest CO2 source

Bobby Magill - Climate Central
Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Simon Maloy
(martin33/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=313142'>P_Wei</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

The future of fuel: Our bodies

Rory Tolan
David Koch (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

Lindsay Abrams
(Nickolay Khoroshkov/Shutterstock)

America's deadly racial gap

Lindsay Abrams
(balu/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Tirreno Power)

Lindsay Abrams
(Shutterstock)

Natasha Lennard