A uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio used to employ hundreds of workers. Now hundreds more are busy cleaning up its legacy of pollution. But those jobs—critical to the town's economy—could be gone soon too.
New EPA pollution standards have led many coal-fired power plants to close their doors in recent years. But one Pennsylvania power plant is cleaning up its act in order to survive.
Democratic lawmakers have negotiated a five-year extension of federal wind and solar incentives designed to encourage more renewable energy production in the U.S.
In 2002, a fire destroyed the environmental education center in Pittsburgh's Frick Park. But the new center, now under construction, will be a world-class green building.
Many places are feeling the pain of the coal industry's decline. But in Boone County, West Virginia, they've lost more coal jobs than any other county in the nation.
Many in the coal industry see the EPA's Clean Power Plan as a death knell. But the new regulations actually leave plenty of room for coal—if the industry is willing to evolve.
Bringing coal plants in-line with federal air quality rules is costing the coal industry billions. But environmentalists say the rules will save lives.