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A proposal that would allow for bonds to be issued for closure costs at the San Juan Generating Station advanced as the state contemplates shifting to 50 percent renewables by 2050. 

Legislators in Montana and Wyoming are passing bills to counter market forces that are putting coal-fired power plants out of business. It remains to be seen whether they will make a difference.

The transition question looms large in northern Arizona: “How to ensure positive environmental change doesn’t come at a crippling economic cost for some of America’s most marginalized communities.”

A new report details how over a hundred major financial firms around the world are distancing themselves from coal holdings, making it harder for the industry to get access to capital.

A proposal by a “mysterious hedge fund” to save a Farmington, N.M., coal-fired power plant from closure has been met with skepticism. The fund has no experience in the sector. 

A bill to ease the community impact of coal plant closures in Colorado would allow bonding that would benefit utilities. But 15 percent of savings would go to towns and workers.

The president of a group called the Conservative Energy Network says job creation, cost and the sheer economics of renewables have created bipartisan support for the shift in power generation.

Regulators have approved new rules against ‘self-bonding,’ the practice by which coal companies promise—on paper—that they will pay for mine reclamation costs that would otherwise fall on taxpayers.

Citing “the uncertain economics of their lives and the need to have other income,” hundreds of farmers are seeking permits as the state aims for 25 percent renewable power generation by 2025.

Mine workers and their union representatives are pushing back against state-level policy changes that have made it more difficult to get healthcare and other benefits.