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During the latest cold snap, coal provided more than 40 percent of the electricity in the frozen East and Midwest, with nuclear the second-biggest power provider and natural gas number three. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Energy and Environment

Trump administration plays up coal use during cold snap

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FERC said Energy Secretary Rick Perry's proposal to give incentives to coal and nuclear power plants was found to be unjustified after a thorough evaluation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Energy and Environment

FERC kills Rick Perry’s grid proposal to subsidize coal, nuclear plants

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry worries that as retiring coal and nuclear plants, which operate around-the-clock, are replaced by natural gas and intermittent wind and solar, the grid may struggle to provide power quickly during an extreme weather event or other emergency. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Energy and Environment

FERC expected to meet Rick Perry halfway on coal subsidies

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In February, the Trump administration will collect greenhouse gas emission data. January's deep freeze, however, will likely lead to an increase in this year's carbon dioxide output as coal power plants keep the heaters running. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Energy and Environment

Trump’s EPA says it will count carbon emissions as polar freeze drives up coal use

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The Energy Department invited Appalachia Development Group to apply for a $1.9 billion loan guarantee to support the development of a first-of-a-kind
Energy and Environment

Trump looks to create natural gas hub in coal country

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Energy and Environment

Nuclear energy wants a spot in Trump’s infrastructure bill

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President Trump along with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, left, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, at the 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree. The Interior and Energy departments are pushing forward with a number of new rules while continuing 2017's theme of pulling back on regulations to reduce costs and spur economic growth. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Energy and Environment

Trump’s energy agenda hits its stride in 2018, but pitfalls lurk

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The fate of the plant had been in limbo after the bankruptcy of one of the plant's main developers, Westinghouse. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Energy and Environment

New nuclear power plant gets thumbs up from Georgia regulators

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The Trump administration is undoing some of the changes to the department's structure made during the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Energy and Environment

Energy Department reorganizes away from clean energy, toward Trump’s ‘energy dominance’

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering new power plant designs which represent the future of the industry amid growing concerns about the premature retirement of the existing nuclear fleet's reactors. (iStock)
Energy and Environment

Federal nuclear watchdog says licensing advanced power plants will get ‘expensive’

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