The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.

An $10 billion natural gas-powered data center to serve the surging demands of artificial intelligence is being planned for the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.

The former Homer City generating station in the US state of Pennsylvania, once the state's largest coal-burning power plant, is to be redeveloped into a 4.5GW natural gas-powered power plant named Homer City Energy Campus.

Finland's last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production will shut down permanently on Tuesday, enabling Helsinki energy group Helen to cut its emissions and put an end to rising energy costs for its customers,

In 2022, 64% of Helsinki's energy for heating still came from coal. Now, after closing its last coal plant, that's dropped to zero.

South African coal-fired power stations have received limited exemptions from air quality laws and harmful emissions reduction regulations, the environment minister said on Monday, but he stressed that the measures did not constitute a "blanket reprieve".

Officials in Pennsylvania have announced the redevelopment of a former coal-fired power plant site into a $10-billion-plus data center campus that will be