The nation's largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it planned to shutter.

In the executive order, Trump directs the Department of War to enter into agreements to purchase electricity from coal plants to power military operations. The president said this action is aimed at "ensuring that we have more reliable power and stronger and more resilient grid power."

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVVA) - Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Co-Chair of the Congressional Coal Caucus, attended a White House “Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal” event Wednesday alongside lawmakers, coal industry advocates, and coal miners to support American coal and coal mining communities.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to further prop up the coal industry, committing the federal government to multiple long-term agreements for purchasing electricity generated by coal.

The EPA wants to give Duke Energy and others more time to cut emissions that pollute ground and surface waters with heavy metals.

More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down, and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey. The first rule curbs air ...

More than 200 coal plants have shut down since 2010, and another 40 plants have announced they will close in the years ahead, with virtually no new coal plants being built today. WASHINGTON — America’s ailing coal industry was buoyed on Tuesday when ...

Trump announced that the Energy Department will provide ​six coal plants in Kentucky, North ⁠Carolina, ⁠Ohio, Virginia and ⁠West ​Virginia with $175 million for upgrades. That funding comes ​from ⁠the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed during the Biden administration that had been earmarked for ⁠rural capacity and energy affordability coal projects.