coal-fired power plants

A group of 21 states and local governments filed a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency, challenging its rollback of a Clean Air Act provision that regulates Mercury and other hazardous emissions from coal and oil-fueled power plants. Delaware joined that lawsuit, which was filed on March 31.To help explain why this case matters and how it impacts the First State, Delaware Public Media’s Jay Shah spoke to Sarah Everhart - Assistant Professor and Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Widener University Delaware Law School.

Delaware’s last remaining coal-fired power plant planned to shut down next spring, but new developments put that timeline into question. The regional…

Cleanup crews are responding to a diesel fuel spill at the NRG power plant in Millsboro. The spill happened early Wednesday morning, according to the…

Sen. Tom Carper is opposing a recent Trump Administration proposal that could ease federal limits on mercury pollution. The top Democrat on the…