More stringent rules were scheduled to be enforced in 2027. Selected plants will now have two more years to comply.

Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

during a phone conversation this month with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggested the United States could help run and possibly own Ukraine's nuclear power plants. Zelenskiy said ...

Once the primary source of electricity in the United States, coal plants now produce just 17 percent of the nation’s power. The main reason is that natural gas, another fossil fuel, became ...

The EPA in 2024 implemented new regulations for power plants. Data shows surprising shift at power plants across the US — ...

power plant ownership,” he said in the White House. “Some people are saying the United States should own the power plant ... because we have the expertise.” He appeared to be talking about ...

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright previously told the DCNF that preventing the retirement of coal-fired power plants will be a part of the solution to addressing the United States’ power demand ...

The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the ... of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive ...

Big picture view: The United States is experiencing a surging demand ... The executive order allows older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to stay in production, identify coal resources ...