President Trump has signed orders to keep ageing coal plants online, despite utilities warning of high operating costs. Energy experts argue that the Department of Energy’s blackout risk report ...

Coal’s decline was not a policy accident.

The United States is seeing a surprising energy shift. Many data centers, the buildings that power the internet and artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly using coal to produce electricity.

There’s a catch. The plants must close as planned, which is complicated by Trump administration orders bolstering the coal ...

What we know about data centers, electricity costs and the future of Montana’s largest power plant following NorthWestern’s ...