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For decades, big utilities and the fossil fuel industry have touted natural gas as a cheap, lower-pollution fuel that provides a “bridge” from coal and oil to clean renewable energy. That notion has...

Tonight's town hall is a forum for 10 Democratic presidential candidates to address the climate crisis. The crisis demands substantive treatment, like that given health care and immigration, not...

Through tax breaks, funding for research and development, and other federal government programs and policies, American taxpayers subsidize the spectrum of energy sources: oil, natural gas, coal...

The U.S. coal industry is dying, and the Trump administration's schemes to keep it alive through taxpayer subsidies have likewise hit a dead end. But that's not stopping coal states' increasingly...

After repeatedly floating specious bailout schemes, Energy Secretary Rick Perry now admits the federal government has no legal authority to prop up aging nuclear power plants. But in the past three...

Duke Energy's new 20-year plan for generating power for its 840,000 Indiana customers shows why the nation's largest electric utility is Public Energy Enemy No. 1. It continues the utility's outdated...

Big electric utilities are cooking the books to make their customers unwittingly bail out money-losing coal-fired power plants – schemes one analyst says costs U.S. ratepayers at least $1 billion a...

From 2009 to 2012, Gregory Jaczko was chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which approves nuclear power plant designs and sets safety standards for plants. But he now says that nuclear power...

U.S. subsidies to the fossil fuel industry were nearly $650 billion in 2015, according to new estimates by the International Monetary Fund. That number – more than the nation spent on defense and 10...

Here's the real reason Trump is attacking wind power: It's going to replace the electricity produced from burning coal. And soon.

Advocates for 100 percent renewable energy often compare the effort needed to meet that goal to efforts to put a person on the moon.

Electric utilities often tout natural gas as a clean fuel – an essential weapon in the fight against global warming. Even if they admit the need to replace fossil fuels with solar and wind power...

Last year the Trump administration's Energy Department announced the launch of a media campaign to counter what an official called “misinformation” about nuclear power. We haven't noticed an upsurge...

The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a right-wing policy shop that brings together conservative state lawmakers and corporations to develop model legislation that promotes what ALEC...

For some time we've been calling the decline of the coal industry “a death spiral.” Now it's more accurate to call it coal's last gasp.

As Hurricane Florence approached North Carolina last month, Duke Energy was busy securing power plants to weather the storm.

The Trump administration's latest idea to “bring back coal” is to let individual states decide how – or even whether – to cut air pollution from coal-burning power plants. The plan is meant to...

When homeowners install rooftop solar panels, their electricity bills go down. That's a threat to the profit margins of big utility companies, and in response they are scheming to undermine the...

Twelve years ago, California set a goal many energy experts thought was too ambitious: reduce climate-disrupting air pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. Last week, the state announced it had not only...

The Trump administration's proposals to prop up the coal industry and roll back clean air rules would mean early deaths for tens of thousands of Americans, according to new research.