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A refinancing mechanism called securitization may be adopted this year by Colorado legislators as a step toward helping the state’s utility industry step away from increasingly outdated coal-fired generation assets.

"The laws have to be changed to first of all secure the working person," said a labor leader who fears bankruptcy machinations by companies and cuts in black-lung benefits.

A World Bank report underscores the role of public policy in managing a post-coal transition, concluding that governments must bear costs “of physical closure of mines and labor transition programs.”

Justice Energy Co. has lost another round in court over its failure to pay $150,000 to James River Equipment; it is one of five such cases involving Justice Energy.

The clean energy economy, including renewable power generation and building design and retrofits around energy efficiency, is bigger now than fossil fuel industries in the Midwest.

The site of a former coal plant in Holyoke, Mass., has become the state’s biggest solar and battery-storage complex after community leaders pressed for an equitable transition.

Further declines in demand for Powder River Basin coal are prompting many companies to “cut staff or benefits, reduce their exposure to the basin or leave it entirely.”

The Public Service Commission has given the biggest utility in New Mexico the green light to close the state’s largest coal-fired power plant and to liquidate its stake in another.

The Navajo Nation will lose almost $300 million on its July acquisition of part of an aging and increasingly uncompetitive coal-fired power plant in New Mexico, concludes a new study.

Moody’s Investors Service has raised its credit rating for Paulding County in northwestern Ohio as the tax base has grown in no small part because of a booming wind-farm industry.