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FirstEnergy is Asking the Feds for Help. Trump’s Thinking About It.

Reid Frazier·April 13, 2018

The bankruptcy of an Ohio power company is the latest sign of how coal and nuclear plants are struggling. FirstEnergy is also making an unusual request of the Trump administration... and it appears to have the president’s ear.

Economy Energy

FirstEnergy Says it’s Closing Three Nuclear Plants; Seeks Federal Help

Reid Frazier·March 30, 2018

The company sites "market challenges." Natural gas and renewable energy have been making up a larger amount of the country’s electric grid, eating into coal and nuclear power.

Economy Energy

Fines for Two Deaths at Power Plant

Reid Frazier·March 7, 2018

Last August, two men died after inhaling a toxic gas in a confined vault inside the plant. The Department of Labor has now fined the two companies responsible for their deaths.

Energy

Future in Limbo for Coal Ash Site

Reid Frazier·October 24, 2017

A Greene County coal ash landfill won’t be receiving any more coal waste until December, at the earliest. An environmental group hopes that the landfill may have seen its last shipment of the waste.

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FirstEnergy is Asking the Feds for Help. Trump’s Thinking About It.

FirstEnergy Says it’s Closing Three Nuclear Plants; Seeks Federal Help

Fines for Two Deaths at Power Plant

Future in Limbo for Coal Ash Site