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Researchers conclude it would be cheaper to close most U.S. coal-fired plants and replace them with renewables than it would to keep the plants running. 

“There will be no turnaround for coal,” a co-author of the study said. “Market forces are driving a transition away from coal toward cleaner fuels, and this transition will continue to gain steam.”

Rowan University and Orsted are teaming up to prepare a workforce for 1,000 offshore wind-farm construction jobs and 100 permanent positions.

Google, General Motors, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, Disney and other industry giants have formed a corporate trade association to increase solar generation by 60 gigawatts.

A new report identifies immediate investment opportunities in the emerging post-coal economy of northeastern Arizona.

Cleanup liabilities and economic questions surrounding the biggest coal-fired plant west of the Mississippi have killed a bid to save the plant and its companion mine, which employ over 700 people.

A program tied to the growing energy-efficiency sector pays former coal miners full-time wages with benefits while they learn “the intricacies of lighting, weatherization, solar panels, and decoding utility bills.”

BP is joining ExxonMobil and other major oil companies that are turning to solar and wind power to run their oilfield operations. “They’re doing it for financial reasons,” one analyst said.

A new book sees a global shift away from fossil fuels continuing along the lines of other historic disruptions—"horses to cars, sails to steam, land lines to cell phones.”

A new law requiring a 50 percent commitment to renewables will prove a boon “as skilled workers are needed to manufacture, install and operate new clean energy technologies.”