Emissions spiked after Trump administration cut regulations … Heat from climate change could worsen U.S. mental health … and more.

The EPA rolled back a Biden-era regulation targeting power plants that burn lignite coal and emit significant amounts of ...

The increase was a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.

An analysis of EPA data found U.S. power plant pollution rose in 2025, with sulfur dioxide emissions up 18%, nitrogen oxide up 7%, and carbon dioxide up 4%. The Natural Resources Defense Council ...

Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its ...

EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants.

CHICAGO — In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak Park, which in warmer weather is packed with children climbing ...

The move, first proposed in June 2025, targets Biden-era amendments to a rule commonly known as the Mercury and Air Toxics ...

The lawsuit challenges the Trump EPA’s new rule for pollution from gas-fired power plants that could mean more smog and soot in the air we breathe.