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A tribal enterprise that recently acquired distressed out-of-state mines without consulting Navajo leaders is losing its footing back home, too, as Four Corners power plant is marked for early shutdown.

Carbon-free power generation will dominate within a generation, and it may take over electricity markets completely, asserts the CEO of one of the biggest corporate consulting firms in the world.

Xcel Energy, which has millions of customers across eight states, is placing Upper Midwest coal plants on seasonal-use status and considering doing the same in the West and Southwest too.

Two rural counties east of Minneapolis will see their tax bases sustained and expanded by multimillion-dollar repowering projects that will extend the lives of two wind farms by 30 years.

Free-market advocates say a plan that would let the Legislature dictate to utility companies how to generate electricity would slow modernization and put the state at a deep competitive disadvantage.

A $44 billion program to reinvent electricity generation in North Rhine-Westphalia continues to advance, aiming to bring along workers, local governments and companies caught up in the shift from coal.

As coal-fired power plants close across the Four Corners region of Arizona and New Mexico, the president of Navajo Nation is championing a regulatory initiative requiring utilities to reinvest locally.

A once-mostly coal-powered state is a global leader now in renewable generation. Solar is coming up fast on wind, and the uptake of both is driven significantly by corporate demand.

Blackjewel and Revelation “have failed to make progress on scores of environmental obligations and might leave Kentucky taxpayers on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in reclamation costs.

The company that bought Cloud Peak Energy’s mines in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming is being called out for not paying taxes owed state and federal governments.