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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

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EPA to ease rules on storing coal ash

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

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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

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DOE props up coal, nuclear power

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

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Earth wins a round in EPA court battle

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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. Nevadas 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)

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The future of fuel: Our bodies

David Koch (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

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America's deadly racial gap

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Natasha Lennard

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