Across the nation, utilities continue to announce the planned shutdown of nuclear power plants. Early retirement of these crumbling, outrageously expensive and dangerous plants is long overdue. But...

A new report estimated the sweeping public health benefits that a 15 percent reduction in energy demand would yield in one year.

As expensive, dirty coal power staggers toward its inevitable demise, natural gas has come to dominate the electricity market.

Despite efforts by the Trump administration and some states to prop up the coal industry, its future remains bleak.

FirstEnergy, a utility struggling to stay alive in the dying coal and nuclear industries, is once again looking for a bailout from government regulators.

In an era of bitterly divisive politics, there's one thing that unites Democrats and Republicans across the nation: They oppose Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposal to allow offshore drilling for...

Fracking for oil and gas poses an impending health crisis in the U.S., two leading groups of health professionals warn in a new report.

“Let it be written that environmentalists didn't kill the nuclear industry, economics did,” Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson wrote last summer.

The rejection of dirty and expensive coal power is accelerating worldwide. Yet the Trump administration continues its desperate attempts to keep a dying industry on life support.

This week, federal regulators rejected the Trump administration's proposal to require the use of electricity from failing coal and nuclear plants, even when cheaper sources are available

Babies of mothers who live near fracked natural gas wells are more likely to be born underweight, according to a new study of more than 1.1 million births in Pennsylvania.