The final Affordable Clean Energy rule is reportedly coming in June. It will replace the Clean Power Plan, bringing much-needed regulatory certainty and an approach to reducing emissions that, notably, doesn’t torpedo the economy.

The conference was focused on how to keep coal in the nation's energy mix despite its contributions to global warming and the controversies coal has engendered around mountaintop mining practices and black lung disease.

In April, the Department of Justice informed Southern Company that it was under investigation “related to the Kemper County energy facility” in Mississippi.

A Wyoming state environmental review board Thursday withheld approval of a mining permit transfer until it could determine whether a sprawling web of coal companies’ environmental violations in other states should block the owner from operating in Wyoming

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Merkel’s administration announced an exit from coal power in February, saying it will wean the nation off the fossil fuel over two decades.